Author: Tom Mole

Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His research interests include: book history and print culture; literature of the Romantic period in Britain, especially Lord Byron; Romantic periodicals and reviews; the cultural history of celebrity; and the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Contact him at tom.mole@ed.ac.uk.

Book History for Beginners

This June, the Centre for the History of the Book will be running its first Summer School, called ‘Book History for Beginners’. This course, taught in four distinct and interrelated modules on ‘print culture’, ‘material texts’, ‘publishing history’ and ‘the future of the book’, introduces students to the major debates in book history. It foregrounds the production, promotion, circulation and reception of the material book as a relay of culture and a form of knowledge. It’s aimed at advanced undergraduates. If you take all four modules, you can transfer the credit back to your home university. Alternatively, you can take any one, two or three modules not for credit. Registration is open now, so sign up here!

Book History for Beginners Dr Tom Mole from Summer School UoE on Vimeo.

CHB Training Workshops

This week I’m going to the University of Dundee to help lead the third in a series of three doctoral training workshops on Book History which the Centre for the History of the Book is running in collaboration with the University of Stirling and the University of Dundee. In December we held a workshop on the history of reading in Stirling, in January we held on in Edinburgh on bibliography and textual scholarship, and in April one in Dundee on manuscript, print and digital culture. We also organised a field trip to Innerpeffray Library, Scotland’s oldest lending library. You can see more details here.

CHB Training Workshops from HSS Webteam on Vimeo.