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Welcome to the CHB

Book History is an area of interdisciplinary enquiry, drawing on the methods of Bibliography, Social History, Literary Criticism, and Cultural Theory. Its specific objects of study include literacy and reading practices, relations among publishers, authors, and readers, and media production technology.

The Centre for the History of the Book (CHB) was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text - its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text.

Serving a community of over 30 scholars across several university departments, the CHB is today an internationally recognised centre dedicated to the promotion of Bibliography and Book History.

From the Archives . . .

Dead Books DANIEL TRAISTER on dead books
Codex LARRY HURTADO on the coming of the Codex
Three Kings JOHN HIGGITT on a 13th-century Book of Hours
Pirate Ship WARREN McDOUGALL on book smuggling

Latest News...

500 Dinner

CHB hosts Dinner for 500th Printing Anniversary

Africa map

Major AHRC funding for exploration in print project

EHOBS launch

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland launched on St Andrew's Day

Waverley

New edition of Waverley published

Bamber Gascoigne

Bamber Gascoigne delivers the 2007 Blackwell Lecture

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Centre for the History of the Book

22a Buccleuch Place
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9LN


Email: chb@ed.ac.uk
Tel:
+44 (0)131 651 1716