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THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with best practitioners inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader. Why listen? The hope is that it will help you to read, write, publish, edit, design, and collect better, and improve how you communicate serious, big, necessary, new, good ideas and stories...

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Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey

Feb 15, 2025

Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Syriac.

I talked with him about my recent magazine hunting exploits...

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Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey

Feb 15, 2025

Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Syriac.

I talked with him about my recent magazine hunting exploits...

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Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series

Oct 14, 2024

Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig's​ Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book ​Covers of the GDR and is currently working on a history of the S. Fischer publishing house, due out in 2026.

We met in Leipzig recently...

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Andrew Nash on the value of Publishers' Archives

Oct 8, 2023

Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History at the Institute of English Studies, University of London (a leading book history scholar in other words) and Director of the London Rare Books School.

We sat down in the stacks at the Mark Longman "Books about Books" Library at the University of Reading (well, actually the Museum...

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John Thompson on Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing

May 22, 2021

John Brookshire Thompson is a British sociologist,  a professor at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Jesus College. His work over the past two decades has focused particularly on the publishing industry. Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and...

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