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Beschreibung
Speaker Bio:
Nicola Wilson is Professor at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Her most recent book is a study of the Book Society (1929-68) - Recommended: The influencers who changed how we read (2025). She was lead editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 (2024) and is a co-founder of the international digital humanities project the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). She has written on publishers' archives, libraries, literary censorship, and reading, and is a specialist on working-class writing. Since 2010 she has been working to republish the writing of Lancashire mill-woman, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Her current book is a trade history provisionally titled, Books for the people: A history of the outsiders who made modern publishing.