Research degrees
Periodicals and Print Culture
With a focus on the dynamic 18th century-print marketplace, our research investigates themes such as graphic satire, the book trades and technical innovations.
The long 18th century witnessed radical changes in the print marketplace, from technical innovations in print to growing professional opportunities for writers from diverse class and social positions and new forms of media.
Our research interest in periodicals and print culture examines the breadth and depth of the book trades, new print formats, art journals, ephemera, and the commercial and social contexts of reading. We bring specialist knowledge to cultures of graphic satire in the 18th century and to the remediation of print, and its interactions with other visual, cultural and material forms.
We address the dynamic print marketplace in the 18th century by thinking through the rich and exciting connections between word and image, oral culture and bound codexes, and authors and readers. We are additionally interested in how digitisation might improve research access to rare and ephemeral forms of print in the period and also yield new insights into the history of print and periodical studies.
