Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar

17 March 2010, 17:30 - 19:00

Event Type: Seminar

Speakers

Mike Esbester, Paul Dobraszczyk, and Paul Stiff (University of Reading), ‘Interactions with information: designing and reading in everyday life, 1815-1914’

Description

Paul Stiff is Principal Investigator and Mike Esbester and Paul Dobraszczyk are Postdoctoral Researchers at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. They work on the AHRC-funded project, 'Designing information for everyday life, 1815-1914.' Paul Stiff, who worked in book published before returning to the academy, edited "Information Design Journal" 1985-2000 and in 1996 founded the annual series "Typography Papers", which he still edits. Paul Dobraszczyk is the author of "Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London's Victorian Sewers" (Spire Books, 2009) and has published many articles on Victorian visual culture. Mike Esbester is a social historian, and has recently published articles in "Book History" and the "Journal of Design History"; he completed his doctoral thesis at the University of York, on twentieth-century safety education and railway safety.

Venue : Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

South Block of Senate House, Ground Floor
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