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The common writer in modern history spotlights the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent.In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, this book foregrounds the 'common writer' and contributes to a 'New History from Below', which attempts to give voice and agency to t...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians. Instead, it turns the spotlight on all those in-between, the millions who had some literacy skills, but for whom reading and writing posed difficulties. Its main focus is on those we have often labelled ¿illiterates...

I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Robert Menzies received 22, 000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they ...

As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices.

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Approaches to the History of Written Culture is a volume of breadth and ambition. It covers all periods from the second millennium BC to the late twentieth-century, a wide range of geographies, and deploys a challenging body of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic of scribal cultures and practices." — David Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Social History, The Open University, UK This book investigates the history of writing as...

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Nichts hat die Geschicke der Welt so nachhaltig verändert wie das geschriebene Wort. Seit der Erfindung der Schrift durch die Sumerer hat die Schreib- und Lesekultur eine faszinierende Entwicklung durchgemacht: Es wurden Alphabete geschaffen, die Schriftrolle vom Kodex abgelöst, Satzzeichen und Wortabstände eingeführt, der Buchdruck mit beweglichen Lettern erfunden und weite Bevölkerungsteile der westlichen Welt literalisiert. Martyn Lyons zei...

For more than 2, 500 years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to document, to educate and to entertain. This book explores the rich history of the book, one of the most efficient, influential and enduring technologies ever invented.

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From the first scribbling on papyrus to the emergence of the e-book, this wide-ranging overview of the history of the book provides a fascinating look at one of the most efficient, versatile, and enduring technologies ever developed. The author traces the evolution of the book from the rarefied world of the hand-copied and illuminated volume in ancient and medieval times, through the revolutionary impact of Gutenberg s invention of the printin...

A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.

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Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessible to English readers, this study presents a form of 'history from below' with emphasis on the individual reader and writer, and his or her experiences and perceptions.

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Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known because they have left little written record of their existence. The voices of the uneducated are there, however, and their written traces can be deciphered, if we take the trouble to look for them. This book will establish some of the main themes and frontiers of a new field of historical study: that of 'ordinary writings', (or écritures ordinaries) - t...

This book demonstrates that the interval between Robespierre's fall and Bonaparte coming to power was of crucial importance.