Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books.

Centre for the Study of the Book

Nicholas Crouch's seventeenth-century books

Adam Smyth talks to Balliol College, Oxford archivist Anna Sander about an exciting new archive of letters relating to Graham Greene and his secretary, Josephine Reid.

Graham Greene and Josephine Reid

A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash.

Hand-press printing

Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts. Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts.

Scribal correction and literary craft: English manuscripts 1375-1510

Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the subject of his 2014 Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, on the history of facsimiles, forgeries, and fantasies of authenticity.

'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900

Adam Smyth is joined by Professor Ian Gadd to discuss his just-published collection on the history of OUP.

The History of Oxford University Press

Adam Smyth talks to Professor Will Noel about the potentials of digital technology for the study of manuscripts.

Bibliography in Bits

Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole?

Early modern plays in bits and pieces

Adam Smyth hosts a series of discussions by Oxford and visiting researchers presenting current research on the material history of the book.