The special issue of Archives and Manuscripts edited by Maryanne Dever and Linda Morra (an initiative of the Archive Futures network) is now out. Vol 42, issue 3 (2014) on the theme of “Literary archives, materiality and the digital”. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: Literary Archives, Materiality and the Digital Maryanne Dever […]
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CFP: Fashion Research Now: Archives
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Fashion Research Now: Archives CALL FOR PAPERS The inaugural issue of Fashion Research Now reflects the aims of the Fashion Research Network: presenting critical, innovative and interdisciplinary research on fashion and dress. It will provide a space for early career researchers and PhD students to publish current and innovative research. Submissions are […]
In the Sontag Archives
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“Susan Sontag wrote seventeen thousand one hundred and ninety-eight e-mails, which will soon be available for consultation on a special laptop. I was given a special viewing at the library, and the experience gave me a queasiness that I have never felt during the years I have conducted historical research.” Benjamin Moser, In the Sontag Archives, The […]
Dunhuang: A secret library, digitally excavated
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Dunhuang: A secret library, digitally excavated Just over a thousand years ago, someone sealed up a chamber in a cave outside the oasis town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China. The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts. They sat there, hidden, for […]
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