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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...