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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.

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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

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Obituary of Henri-Jean Martin by Roger Chartier

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British Academy Postdoctoral Award for CHB Researcher

Murray's Handbooks

Royal Society of Edinburgh supports research on the John Murray Archive

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First Phase of the Scottish Book Trade Archive Inventory Complete

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