The WPHP Monthly Mercury Podcast
1) Finding, Building, Sustaining, Supporting, feat. Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, and Maureen Bell
During ten years of working on the Women’s Print History Project, we have thought seriously and often about “women’s book history.” What is it, and how do we define it in relation to the WPHP? As wome...Show More
2) A Newcastle Novelist, feat. Tricia Monsour
On the WPHP, our encounters with books and the women who worked on them are bibliographically-focused, as they must be for a project of this scale—focused attention on the contents of every work and t...Show More
3) Bibliographic Intimacies, feat. Megan Peiser and Emily D. Spunaugle
For Episode 3 of the fifth season of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “Bibliographic Intimacies,” Kate and Kandice interviewed Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the Marguerite Hicks Collec...Show More
4) Deal with the Devil (feat. Kate Ozment)
Every year, come hell or high water, The WPHP Monthly Mercury has released a gothic-inflected Halloween episode—and this year, we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s 1806 novel Z...Show More
5) Authority Issues
Authority records, authority figures, authoritative scholarship... What does it really mean to have authority? Nothing good, according to Kandice. However, in working on a new project that relies on b...Show More
6) Address-ing Firms; or, The Consequences of Our Own Actions
One of the fields we include in our records for publishing, printing, and bookselling businesses in the WPHP—our firm records—is for the addresses where they operated. Sometimes this is straightforwar...Show More
7) Ghosts of Print Culture Past
Do you believe in ghosts? In this spirited (ha ha) Halloween episode, Kandice and Kate encounter a ghost of their very own in circulating library owner and author Mary Tuck’s Durston Castle; or, The G...Show More
8) New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 5: Kirsteen McCue
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Rom...Show More
9) New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 4: Manu Samriti Chander
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Rom...Show More
10) New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 3: Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnes
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Rom...Show More