Stephen Colclough's research while affiliated with Bangor University and other places
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Publications (27)
This chapter investigates how book historians have used autobiographical records and documents – diaries, notebooks and commonplace books, and marginalia – to uncover the place of books and reading in everyday life from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century. It aims to provide a survey of the field while also drawing on individual...
This chapter describes the beginnings of book production in Britain, in the monasteries of the Anglo‐Saxon world. Through the upheavals and changes that came with the Norman Conquest of 1066, it explores setting the stage for the gradual expansion of manuscript production into urban contexts. Both the runes and ogham writing systems persisted in ma...
The period 1780‐1820 was in many ways a time of consolidation. Earlier innovations in repackaging texts for targeted audiences multiplied, and “old canon” reprints put substantial printed works into the hands of many who had never been able to acquire them before. Regional bookshops provided links in the chain of distribution for books printed in L...
In the first half of the nineteenth century, British print culture underwent what Simon Eliot has termed a “distribution revolution”. As new publishers entered the field, the “cheap” print culture of the early 1830s became ever more diverse. Machines for printing, binding, and papermaking allowed books, newspapers, and magazines to be produced in f...
This chapter corresponds with the fall of Sir Robert Walpole and so the end of the hyper‐partisan atmosphere that politicized almost every aspect of life in the first four decades of the eighteenth century, including the bookscape. In 1712, weekly papers, generally known as journals, began to appear, typically on Saturdays, partly as an attempt to...
It is common to write of the shift from manuscript to print as a watershed moment in western European history. This chapter focuses on key historical moments that allow people to see Bible printing as exemplifying attempts at the consolidation and control of the printing press in Britain. There are texts that survive from the manuscript culture of...
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie (History of the Kings of Britain), completed around 1138, was one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. William Caxton's books belong to the first beginnings of print, and they display aspects that look both back to the manuscript tradition, and ahead to what print would become. Monastic book...
Around 1740, when circulating libraries and other institutions enabling ordinary readers to engage with books without having to purchase them became a staple of metropolitan life. In the years surrounding 1780, after a series of court decisions invalidated the claims to perpetual copyright and other monopolies that had been at the heart of English...
Using the new digital technology, journalists could key in their own articles for publication. Publishing is an unforgiving business for a small commercial operation to be involved in. British publishing had been in severe crisis before, and in living memory. Bookselling was increasingly becoming the business of very large, multi‐site retailers, of...
Print was the first mass medium, but by 1921, it was already far from being the only one. Print had interacted with other cultural distribution systems since its earliest days. Some publishers perceived the British Broadcasting Corporation's activities as a threat for strictly commercial reasons, radio actually required support from periodical publ...
Stocked with halfpenny newspapers, sixpenny novels, magazines, postcards, and posters, the mass distribution of texts affordable by large numbers of the British population had been achieved in the years leading up to World War I. And as the almost immediate impact of cinema upon the production of the novel suggests, print, as the first mass media,...
It has become a commonplace to describe the marked increase in the number of titles published right after the collapse of Licensing as an “explosion.” Irregularly published “newsbooks” had been around, on and off, in England since the 1620s, and individual pamphlets and ballads on particular events ‐ comets, murders, monstrous births ‐ had been a s...
The major publishing houses of Britain after the war were largely the same as those that had dominated the industry before the war. This chapter discusses the developments concerning the mass‐market paperback publications of the British publishing industry from 1940‐1970. It covers various publishing sectors: publishing for the armed forces, especi...
Roger Chartier’s insistence that reading is a material act which ‘brings the body into play’ and ‘is inscribed in a space and a relationship with oneself and others’ has had a profound affect upon historians of reading.1 As Kate Flint notes in a recent reinvestigation of the evidence presented in her 1993 monograph on The Woman Reader, a considerat...
The meaning of reading: Since the 1980s the idea that readers invest printed objects with their own expectations and actively construct meaning, rather than finding it already inscribed in the text, has transformed the way in which we think about the history of reading. It is no longer enough to document what was being produced in the past; we now...
The turn to history in Romantic studies has tended to displace ideas about the rise of the individual and the importance of the artist as genius that were once associated with this period. The influence of Jerome McGann’s work on the social text can be seen in those accounts of Romanticism that focus upon publication as a collaborative process invo...
Most work on working-class readers has, of necessity, concentrated on the evidence recorded in the autobiographies of an elite group within that class. From Robert Altick’s The English Common Reader (1957), through David Vincent’s Bread, Knowledge and Freedom (1982), to Jonathan Rose’s The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), Jo...
This study has examined a range of sources, from manuscript books to autobiographies, which describe the complex responses of individual readers. The journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758) capture both her confident recitation of some of the most popular dramatic works of the 1720s and her uncertain reaction to the new ‘amatory’ fiction of the sam...
This chapter attempts to recover something of the diversity of possible reading practices available during the first half of the eighteenth century by looking at three very different readers, William Coe (1662–1729), Dudley Ryder (1691–1756) and John Dawson (1692–1765). As James Raven has argued, the ‘recovery of individual practices and perception...
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) gives some sense of the increase in book production that occurred during the eighteenth century. For example, between 1710 and 1719 nearly 23,000 separate titles were produced. By the 1790s this figure rose to nearly 68,000. Of course, as James Raven and others have noted, these figures take no account of su...
This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of ‘amatory fiction’, through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway bookstall, it argues that a variety of new reading communities emerged during this period.
‘Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?’ Since Robert Darnton posed this question 20 years ago, historians, book historians and literary scholars have done a great deal to recover the history of reading.1 Most studies of reading in Britain completed during the mid-twentieth century focused on improvements in the production and distributi...
Despite a widespread questioning of the suitability of the term ‘extensive’ as an accurate description of the reading practices of the late eighteenth century, the notion (derived from the work of Rolf Engelsing) that at ‘sometime’ during the eighteenth century reading changed from the ‘intensive’ study of a few texts to a new way of comprehending...
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... Stephen Colclough considers diaries and marginalia from individual middle-class readers in the eighteenth century, observing that "extensive reading was a possibility" for such readers, but he also cautions against using such individual readers as the basis for more general claims about reading in the period, not least because working-class readers could access far fewer texts. 21 In any single period multiple kinds of reading exist alongside each other. Even within an individual life a reader is likely to read in different ways. ...
... This shows the workings of the "double appropriating" referred to above (Beverungen et al., 2012; see also Allington et al., 2019) by which institutions are charged twice. Moreover, it also shows how private actors usurp and undermine public sector institutions, in this case higher education institutions. ...
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... Ovo je uočljivo i iz činjenice da se poslednjih decenija, kao plod sasvim nove, lektorsko--istoriografske struje, pojavilo više ambicioznih istorija čitanja (vidi npr. The History ofReading 2011aReading , 2011bReading , 2011cFischer 2003;Colclough 2007; Goldstein 2009). 4 Vidi npr.Elford Rogers 1983;Newton 1986;Cornis-Pope 1992;Sumara 2002; Carlshamrei Pettersson 2003;Swirski 2010;Parker 2020. ...
... Além disso, conforme aponta Colclough (2007), com o intuito de oferecer entretenimento aos seus usuários durante a temporada em que passavam nas cidades balneárias, as bibliotecas circulantes incluíam em seu estabelecimento a comercialização de luvas, guarda-chuvas, chás, perfumes, brinquedos e outras bugigangas, como se fossem realmente lojas. De acordo com Kite (1971), era possível encontrar nessas bibliotecas, até mesmo, convites à venda para bailes e concertos. ...
... As pointed out by book and reading historian Robert Darnton, throughout most of history, books have been heard more than they have been seen (Darnton, 2014(Darnton, [1986). Examples of this are tradesmen during the Enlightenment hiring readers to recite to them whilst they worked (Darnton, 2014(Darnton, [1986), and the very social affair of reading letters, novels and the Bible aloud in family drawing rooms in the 19th century (Colclough, 2011). Reading aloud has been a prevalent practice throughout most of the history of reading. ...
... 1 Lewis 1974Lewis , 1989Römer 2019. 2 A papiruszok legismertebb szakértője, Naphtali Lewis szerint egy papirusztekercs ára a római korban egy munkás egy-két napi átlagfizetésének felelt meg, ami a kereslet-kínálat viszonyának alakulása szerint akár öt-hat napi bérnek megfelelő összegig is emelkedhetett (Lewis 1974, 129-134). Ugyanezt támasztja alá Skeat 1995, 88-89. ...
