Dr Giles Bergel
Subjects
History of the Book; English; History
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the History of the Book in Britain, with particular emphasis on the long eighteenth century. Areas of particular interest to me include cheap print, such as ballads, chapbooks, newspapers and ephemera, and interactions between print and scribal and oral cultures. My current research is on the representation of genealogy in print and other media during the handpress period (c. 1450-1800) in Britain. I am also working on a study of chapbooks from the eighteenth century to the present.
