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Wasps in a jam jar: Scottish literary magazine and political culture 1979-1999.

Conference Proceeding
Gunn, L., & McCleery, A. (2009)
Wasps in a jam jar: Scottish literary magazine and political culture 1979-1999. In A. McNair, & J. Ryder (Eds.), Further from the frontiers: crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish studies
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Introduzione al storia del libro.

Book
Finkelstein, D., & McCleery, A. (2005)
Introduzione al storia del libro. Edizione Sylvestre Bonnard
Italian translation of "An Introduction to Book History"- Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery

The influence of Benedict Anderson

Book
McCleery, A., & Brabon, B. (2006)
The influence of Benedict Anderson. Merchiston Publishing
The Influence of Benedict Anderson provides a re-evaluation of Anderson's theories of the nation-reflectingupon and critically applying his work to a number of contexts. This ...

Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972

Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2013)
Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412470950
This article examines the trading structures within which UK publishers operated in the markets of Empire and Commonwealth and, in doing so, concentrates on the development th...

Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar

Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2019)
Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03
Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal auth...

A review of Scottish publishing in the 21st century

Report
Sinclair, M., McCleery, A., & Graham, M. C. (2004)
A review of Scottish publishing in the 21st century
The Scottish Arts Council commissioned a report that profiled the then current state of the publishing industry in Scotland, analysed its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities ...

Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival

Journal Article
McCleery, A., Sinclair, M., & Gunn, L. (2008)
Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival. Publishing Research Quarterly, 24, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-008-9069-8
A comparison of analyses of the Scottish publishing industry carried out in 1992, 2002 and 2007 underscores the fragility of the sector within a small country within the Engli...

Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa

Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2018)
Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(3), 507-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2018.1452420
The title of this essay is taken from the 1975 Penguin African Library revised edition of Antony Martin’s ‘Minding Their Own Business: Zambia’s Struggle against Western Contro...

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland.

Book Chapter
Fleming, L., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2011)
In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. In The History of Reading, Volume 2, evidence from the British Isles , c1750-1950, (189-205). Palgrave Macmillan
In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland.

Fresh evidence and further complications: correcting the text of the 1934 Random House edition of Ulysses

Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2008)
Fresh evidence and further complications: correcting the text of the 1934 Random House edition of Ulysses. Joyce Studies Annual, 37-77. https://doi.org/10.1353/joy.0.0004

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CRF European Visiting Research Fellowship

2014 - 2014
Visiting research fellow grant, to embed the ebook format (and ecosystem) debate into the scholarly discourse concerning similar cases (e.g. concerning video formats) and particularly their academic r...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £2,000

The Wayzgoose

2006 - 2009
'Wayzgoose' is a term formerly used in the UK (and elsewhere in the English speaking world) to describe annual social outings that were organised by unions, management and workers in the publishing an...
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council | Value: £75,484

Scottish Readers Remember

2006 - 2010
The study of reading and reception as social phenomena is now central to our understanding of literature, history and culture. It has become an established field within Book History. Scottish Readers ...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £279,567

World War at Home

2014 - 2015
World War 1 At Home provides a rich collection of material, enhanced with audio and video clips, that casts new light on what was happening in the UK and Ireland during 1914 to 1918. It highlights the...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £11,245

Leverhulme Visiting Fellow Award (Dr Waite)

2009 - 2012
Research into educational publishing in Scotland, primarily through the Thomas Nelson archives at Edinburgh Napier University (SAPPHIRE project) and Edinburgh University. Supervised a student in a res...
Funder: Leverhulme Trust | Value: £22,000

AHRC Doctoral Award (Daniel Boswell)

2009 - 2014
The contemporary globalisation of publishing, both books and magazines, represents: an increased flow of products across national borders, often superficially customised for different language groups,...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £40,000

Journal Editorship

2004 - 2006
Value: £23,472

Scottish Readers Remember: Administrator

2007 - 2009
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £10,000

Promoting living culture through the vehicle of tourism - Living Culture CS

2012 - 2015
To work with cultural organisations and individuals, particularly those working in the fields of crafts, storytelling, traditional dance and music in partnership with tourism stakeholders and provider...
Funder: Creative Scotland | Value: £60,000

European Visiting Research Fellowship

2004 - 2005
Value: £2,460
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