Two of MAPP's founders, Alice Staveley and Claire Battershill, have recently shared long-form interviews on the digital humanities and modernist printing cultures. Take a look!
"Reflections on Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Alice Staveley"
"Printing Matters: An Interview with Claire Battershill"
In collaboration with journal Feminist Modernist Studies (FMS), we invite proposals for a special cluster of essays focusing on archival materials made available in MAPP. These will form part of a curated series of ‘Out of the Archives’ in FMS (editor Urmila Seshagiri), ranging across 3 issues to be published in 2026.
MAPP currently makes available over 4500+ items of publishing correspondence...
The MAPP team are delighted to have been part of the SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing's) annual conference at the University of Reading 1-5 July 2024, hosted by Reading's Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, with a collections session on MAPP and the Hogarth Press archive held in Special Collections.
We also had our first in-person launch for the new...
Beginning my journey as a volunteer for the MAPP Transcription Project in 2022, I transitioned to the role of Trainee Archive Assistant at the University of Reading last September. Once only focusing on capturing and transcribing every detail from the original sources, I now not only transcribe, but also proofread transcriptions, adding new content to the website, coordinating with volunteers and...
We are delighted to announce the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020. This has been a long-running editorial project led by MAPP's co-directors Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth, Claire Battershill, Nicola Wilson, and Elizabeth Willson Gordon, with additional editors Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna and Sophie Heywood.
The book is the fruit of many years'...
Earlier this year, I spent a whirlwind week in New York visiting the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. My research assistant position with MAPP entails liaising with partner institutions like the Berg as well as various author and business estate holders (and getting to do some exciting travel and archival work to boot!).
Carolyn Vega, Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg...
As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, I’ve been lucky enough to work at the Harry Ransom Center on UT’s campus for the past two years. In my time there, I’ve been a member of the reference team, and my day-to-day tasks usually involve fulfilling digitization requests for remote patrons, providing support to researchers in our reading room, and leading instruction sessions...
We are delighted to share that Helena Clarkson and MAPP's 'virtual volunteers' team has won this year's University of Reading Research Awards in the 'Openness in Research' category.
Volunteers shed light on modernist publishing - Engagement and Impact (reading.ac.uk)
Helena and Nicola did a little filming in MERL's lovely gardens for a short video explaining the project. Helena has also being...
Last October, I visited the beautiful Washington State University Pullman and spent a week immersed in the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Part of my role as a research assistant with MAPP is to collaborate and develop relationships with partner institutions, including Pullman. The team at the library’s Manuscripts, Archives, & Special Collections (MASC) generously offered their time...
Perhaps you’ve read Virginia Woolf’s essay, “Phases of Fiction”? To be sure, it may be one of her lesser-known works, but Margaret West, Hogarth Press manager in the early 1930s outright denied its existence in a 1934 letter, three years after the essay’s initial publication in the American periodical The Bookman. West responded to a request from the Macmillan Company of Canada to excerpt from...
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