Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre (ECW) is hosting a study day on the afternoon of 9th March to mark the visit of the Centre’s inaugural Visiting Fellow, Professor Laura Miller (University of West Georgia).

Miller has published extensively on book history and the history of science, and her first book is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press this year: Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the Principia and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science.

Professor Miller will give a keynote talk on ‘Reading Popular Science in Early American Libraries’, with a comment from ECW’s Dr Greg Lynall (English, University of Liverpool). Following a break for refreshments, there will then follow a more informal panel on library history, library marginalia and the history of reading. Participants will include Katie Halsey (English, Stirling), Matt Sangster (English, Glasgow) and Mark Towsey (History, Liverpool).

The study day is free and open to all, registration essential for catering purposes.
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