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CONFERENCE    

‘EVIDENCE OF READING, READING THE EVIDENCE’

A major international conference was held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London

 21-23 July 2008

Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies

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Fasciculus temporum, Werner Rolevinck, [Rougemont]: Heinrich Wirtzburg, 1481, Senate House Library, Incunabula 76
By kind permission of Special Collections, Senate House Library, University of London

A detailed review of the proceedings of the conference is now available. Please follow this link.

Many thanks to everyone who participated in the conference. We were delighted with the quality and range of papers presented on the theme of evidence of reading and we were especially pleased with the invigorating discussion at every session. Plans for a publication resulting from the conference will be announced shortly.

Conference Photos!

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Conference delegates at the wine reception
The launch of Robert Fraser's book, Book History through Postcolonial Eyes (Routledge, 2008)
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Book historians rumaging through Waterstone's rubbish attract the attention of passers-by
Conference delegates at Robert Fraser's book launch

 

 

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