Book Trade History in the Digital Age
24th July at Chetham’s Library, Manchester
Reservations: http://www.bookhistory.org.uk/print-networks/events
Programme
- 09.45 Arrival and registration (tea and coffee available)
- 10.15 Welcome (Michael Powell)
The British Book Trade Index: moving on (Maureen Bell and John Hinks)Session 1: Developing resources
- 10.45 Helen Vincent and Anette Hagan (NLS) The Scottish Book Trade Index: past, present and future
- 11.15 Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill (Reading), On building the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP): scholarly adventures in the digital world
- 11.45 Break (tea and coffee available)Session 2: Mapping trade networks
- 12.00 Matthew Stallard (Manchester) An Overview of Historical GIS and its Potential Uses in Book Trade History
- 12.30 Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Sheridan Institute of Technology, Ontario), Digitising International Book Trade Networks: the geospatial and temporal mapping of English texts abroad
- 13.00 LunchSession 3: The critical researcher
- 14.00 Angela McShane (V&A), Upsides, Downsides and Broadsides in the Digital Archive
- 14.30 Lisa Peters (Chester), Opening up the World’s News (and no longer having to wrestle with a microfilm): online newspaper archives in the digital age
- 15.00 John Lavagnino (King’s College London), The Rarity of the Thomason Tracts
- 15.30 Break (tea and coffee available)Session 4: Round table discussion
- 15.45 Digital resources for book trade history: what do we want and how do we get there?
with
Anthony Mandal (Cardiff), Sharon Howard (Sheffield), Giles Bergel (Oxford), Julianne Simpson (Manchester) - 16.45 End of day