History of the Book, Textual Studies, and Publishing

Organisations
Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book
Cambridge Centre for Material Texts
Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies, UC Riverside
History of Books & Material Texts, Research Focus Group, UC Santa Barbara
HoBo: History of the Book at Oxford
Oxford Bibliographical Society
The Bibliographical Society
Other Bibliographical Societies
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare library
The European Society for Textual Scholarship
The Society for Textual Scholarship

Palaeography Guides
Early Modern Palaeography
English Handwriting 1500-1700
Cyndi’s List - Handwriting & Script
The National Archives: Online Palaeography Course

Selected Blogs
Digital Humanist Beginner: thoughts on eighteenth-century libraries, and digital technology
Early Modern Online Bibliography
Exeter Working Papers in Book History
Textual Studies, 1500-1800
Wine Dark Sea - drifting in a sea of text and data
Wynken de Worde: Books, Early Modern Culture, Post-Modern Readings

The Book Trade, Publishing, and Reading
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century
Fore-Edge Paintings (on books)
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
Register of Copyright Infringement Suits & Actions (c.1560-1800)
SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
The British Book Trade Index
The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members
The London Book Trade Database
The Nichols Archive Project
The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
The Scottish Book Trade Index
Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers