A 75-minute panel discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A scheduled for: *Tuesday, 15 September, 5–6:30 p.m. ET, via Zoom*. https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/a-fractured-inheritance-the-problems-challenges-and-opportunities-of-collecting-manuscript-fragments/ <https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=090f733b03&e=bf2a5b8dfd> *Spaces are filling quickly! Please visit the<https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=79fce7fcb3&e=bf2a5b8dfd>webpage <https://rarebookschool.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3921162713adaa3f481a4987&id=3e519255e9&e=bf2a5b8dfd> to learn more about the session and register today.* “Fragmentology” has emerged as one of the dominant subjects in the broader manuscript studies field, as digital technologies have […]

SHARP: Five College Faculty Seminar on Book History Fall Talks "Information Hunters" with Kathy Peiss (History, University of Pennsylvania), introduced by Brian Ogilvie (History, UMass Amherst)

Dr Thomas Keymer, University Professor, Chancellor Jackman, Professor, University of Toronto on "Authorship, Print, and Sedition in Eighteenth-Century England." On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, wrote the great nineteenth-century historian Thomas Macaulay, “English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government.” Not quite. Pre-publication censorship was at an […]