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  • Print and Tourism

    Travel-Related Publications from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

    Series Book 7 - Printing History and Culture
    This volume brings together academic scholars and book industry practitioners to explore some key moments in the history of travel writing and publishing through the use of case studies about Britain or British travellers. The emphasis is on the production, distribution and consumption of print cultural artefacts and considers the social and cultural impact that printed ephemera had on particular ... Read more

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  • Transient Print

    Essays on the History of Printed Ephemera

    Series Book 5 - Printing History and Culture
    This edited volume provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the printed material often regarded as disposable by its contemporaries and, until recently, as unworthy of serious academic research. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, this volume not only demonstrates the wide variety of ephemeral publications which have survived to the present day, but also shows how they can ... Read more

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    Series Book 7 - The Landmark Library
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  • Printed Images in Early Modern Britain

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    From Stonehenge to the Shard

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    'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory StewartThe story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and yet the language of architecture is a mystery to all but a few. In this enlightening history, spanning castles and cathedrals to factories and ... Read more

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