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  Dissertations by past MA History of the Book students

Archer, Bernadette ‘Recreating The Past: Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Costume Books’, 1997

Argyrou, Maria ‘The Nicolopoulos Collection in Andritsena Library: A Study of Preservation Options’, 1999

Arlotte, Evelyn ‘The Revival of the Broadside Ballad in 19th Century England and the Role of James Catnach’, 2002

Arnold, Antje ‘The Middleman: The Role of the Literary Agent as a Business Manager, with particular reference to A.P. Watt & Co. and Macmillan & Co.’, 2002

Atkinson, Peter ‘The Amicable Society for Reading: A Provincial Book Club, Northampton 1779-1830’, 2002

Bach, Ulrich 'German émigré Antiquarian Booksellers in England after 1933: A Biographical Study', 1996

Bada, Kathleen ‘Textual Theory and Editions of Letters with principal reference to The Letters of D.H. Lawrence published by Cambridge University Press’, 1999

Berry, Thomas ‘Some Problems of Attribution in the Writings of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’, 1998

Brauer, Oliver ‘Truth, Learning, Fancy, Pleasure to unite: a London book club at the beginning of the 19th century’, 2001

Brown, Iain ‘The Lord Chamberlain’s Plays: An Electronic Paradigm’, 1996

Chester, Gail ‘The Not So Gentle Reader: The Role of the Publishers’ Reader as Gatekeeper, with particular reference to Macmillan & Co., 1895-1905’, 1996

Chu, Jennifer ‘The Business of Literature: E.M. Forster’s Negotiations with Edward Arnold in the Berg Collection's Forster-Arnold Correspondence’, 2002

Clarke, Gwen ‘A Classical Introduction: a comparative study of introductory material and other paratextual components in some early and late twentieth-century editions of the World’s Classics’, 2003

Cowan, Steven ‘State Papers as a Resource for Book History, with special reference to the Public Record Office’, 2002

Craft, Angela ‘ The Interpretation of and Physical Evidence in Books of Earlier Bindings’, 1999

Dean, Lucy ‘Proud Paul: The Pursuit of Perfection in Paul Nash’s Book Designs’, 1997

Des Forges, Jane ‘"Satisfaction and Improvement": A Study of Reading in a small Quaker Community 1770-1820’, 2000

Escrig-Gimenez, Mercedes ‘An Approach to the Eliot-Phelips Collection: The Significance of the 16th and 17th century Scientific Books for the History of Printing in Spain’, 1998

Fenney, Elizabeth, ‘J.W. Parker: The Vanished Imprint’, 1997

Flanders, Amy ‘Publishing During War-Time: A Case Study of the Macmillan Publishing Company during the Second World War’, 1999

Fleming, Martha ‘Letters and Figures: Relationships between the Book Object and the Human Body as Metaphor-Clues to an Epistemology of the Book’, 1998

Gebruers, Maeve ‘A Bibliography of Irish Traditional Music, 1985-1997: Evidence of the Emergence of a New Era in Traditional Music Publishing’, 1997

Giezen, Natasja ‘The Hampstead Public Subscription Library 1833-1853’, 1999

Green, Maureen ‘Hayle Mill: A Study of the first seventy-five years of a family business which defied the paper-making machine and continued a traditional practice of making paper by hand through six generations’, 2000

Gregory, Julie ‘Do you believe in fairies?: the depiction of winged fairies in children's literature’, 2001

Guite, Candace ‘Lady Margaret Beaufort: patron and bibliophile’, 2001

Horton, Charles ‘The Formation of the Library of A. Chester Beatty, 1910-1933’, 1999

Hutton-Jamieson, Iain ‘Altered States: A Brief Investigation into the Creation of the Image of Britain through Iconographic Developments in the Country House Library’, 2000

James, Elizabeth ‘Reaching Readers? The South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks - publishing the decorative arts in late Victorian England’, 2003

Johnson, Lorraine ‘Wills & Hepworth: the origin of the Ladybird imprint’, 2003

Joos, Judith ‘Political Censorship and Self-Censorship: Government, Book Publishers and Authors during the Second World War’, 1999

Jurilla, Patricia May ‘Florante at Laura, Balagtas, and the Philippines: the history of a Filipino national poem’, 2003

Laws, Emma ‘Miniature Libraries; or, a practical education: John Marshall's Infant's Library, and The Juvenile or Child's Library’, 2001

Mahurter, Sarah ‘A Study of the Whittington Press in the Context of the Modern Private Press Movement’, 2002

Markham, Samuel ‘Friends Hold all Things in Common? the conflict of friendship and the business of printing in Erasmus’s life and works’, 2003

Marks, Pamela  ‘Animi Alimentum: A Study of the Cranston Library, 1701-1830’, 2002

Matovu, Rovianne ‘The Printed Museum: Looking behind the scenes of some museums to discover the ideology as well as the publishing history of their catalogues produced in Britain in the nineteenth century’, 1996

Mendelsohn, Gertrude ‘The Text of the Jungle Books’, 1997

Mikaelian, Allen ‘Middlemen by Profession: Popular Fiction and the rise of the in-house book editor’, 1997

Monoyios, Aristi ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island: the path to publication and the novel’s journey to classic status’, 1996

Morgan, Gaye ‘ "For the apparel oft proclaims the man": the bindings of the Brian Twyne bequest, Corpus Christi College, Oxford’, 1997

Patterson, Diana ‘Paper: a reader’s handbook’, 1996

Peaker, Carol ‘The Democratisation of the Art Book during the Second World War’, 1997

Prince, Clare ‘From Temporary Wrappers to Permanent Bindings: a study of the paper-covered books in the Olga Hirsch Collection', 2001

Roos, Mariska ‘The Leyton Literary Club (1877-1891)', 2003

Simpson, Julianne ‘The collection of Philip Bisse, D.D., 1540-1613, now in Wadham College, Oxford: an analysis of the collection, the general attitude towards Catholic books in the Universities, and the import trade, 1550-1620’, 1997

Stimpson, Felicity ‘Reading in Circles: An Examination of the work of the National Home Reading Union from 1889-1900 with particular reference to reading practices’, 2000

Stuart, Emma ‘A Prince's Library: An Examination of George IV's library at Carlton House’, 2001

Tomioka, Mari ‘The First Printed Bible and the Manuscript of Tradition’, 2003

Waanders, Peter ‘The Littles Abroad: American and English Little Magazines published in Europe 1920-1930’, 1997

Weaver, Leonard ‘The Development of Italian Book Illustration from 1470-1550, recognising the complementary contributions made by Venice and Florence’, 1999

Wytzes, Marjolein ‘"There was a Peerage in its bright scarlet and gold uniform": the Production and Reception of Peerage Guides, 1865-1900’, 2002

 

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