Bookshapers Podcast
Exploring curious stories about the people and technology behind what we read – with Anna Faherty and Judith Watts.
For book nerds, readers and anyone interested in publishing or book history.
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The Sign of the Penguins
In which Anna and Judith travel to Antarctica to embark on the greatest possible adventure: publishing a book! Expect cold, dark and dismal weather, the printing press from hell and the stench of seal blubber – all wrapped up in tasty petit-pois endpapers. ...
Trailer 01: The pianotype
The pianotype was an elegant Victorian machine, which promised to revolutionise typography and literature. But why has no-one heard of it? LINKSYou can view the 1842 edition of ‘The Anatomy of Sleep’ by Dr Edward Binns online at the Internet Archive. You can...
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Botanica Blackwellia
In which Anna and Judith travel back to the degenerate world of Eighteenth-century London. Expect, user-focused content and design, a performance in rhyming verse and a little gin. When Elizabeth Blackwell's husband ends up in a debtor's prison, she thinks writing and illustrating her own...