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Episode 66: Histories of the Unexpected: The Book

6, 4, 2018 - Dr Sam Willis and Professor James Daybell explore the unexpected history of their new book! Read More

Tags: Beards, Boxes, Cats, Chimneys, Clocks, Clouds, Contents, Courage, Dreams, Dust, Gloves, Hair, Hands, holes, Introduction, letters, Mountains, needlework, Perfume, Rubbish, Shadows, Snow, Tears, The Bed, The Bubble, The Itch, The Lean, The Lion, The Paperclip, The Scar, The Signature, The Smile

Episode 59: The Book

14, 11, 2017 - . “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones.” .... Read More

Tags: bibliography, conservation, history of religion, annotations, Another Tag, Bible, Book, book as object, bookcase, books as totems, circulation, Concordances, curation, dissemination of text, George Herbert, harmonies, History of the Book, items found in books, Little Gidding, miracles, needlework, Nicholas Ferrar, oral tradition, production, reception, religious books, scribal culture, social history of reading, talisman, the future of the book, the history of ideas, transmission

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