Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th centu...

This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of us...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

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

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

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known becaus...

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...

Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, f...

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

This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and...

'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Ro...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in ...

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emph...

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the...

As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until...

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptio...

Lettura e scrittura sono pratiche fondamentali che fanno parte della nostra quotidianità e accomp...

For more than 2,500 years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to document, to educ...

Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessibl...

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the ...

Many of the great individual titles of the past two millennia are discussed as well as the range ...

This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled betw...