Bookmaking
The book as art & art as a book (Michael)
Compositors & illustrators
Illustration of children’s tales (Eilish)
The print shop
The Gutenberg Revolution
Early works (from oral to written)
Folktales (Sharmila)
The traditional fairytale and Harry Potter (Janae)
Grimoires & magic books (Marti)
Pedagogical books
Children’s lit & its messages (Serena)
Chivalric adventure tales for young boys (Julia)
Secular books
Astrology & Astronomy (Marianna)
Accounting & record keeping
Natural history
Medical & herbal books
Bestiaries (Julie)
Law books
Early universities & disciplines
Dictionaries
From the Encyclopédie (Diderot) to Wikipedia
Women & the book
Women writers, engravers, binders
Medieval & Renaissance women and the book
Women as readers and audience
Journeys
Travel writing tales & diaries (Elijah)
Cartography & early navigators (Carlyn)
Adventures as social commentary
Great themes
The human condition (Alana)
The real & the imaginary
Utopia & Dystopia
Writing & the self
Autobiographies (Kelsie)
Diaries (Jillian)
Great lives and biographies (culture and message)
Letters (Mary)
The body as a book (tattoos) (Carolina)
High & Low art
Book clubs & their culture
Cartoons, comic strips & graphic books (Cole)
Paperbacks & popular fiction
Chick Lit and the romance (Simran)
The Gothic (Amber)
Words and messages in urban graffiti
Publication of books
Authorship & ownership
Authenticity & fraud (Piracy)
Printing technology from then to now
Copyright & property laws
Politics: censure, constraints
Authority & Power
Post-colonialism & dominant discourses
Banned, censored & destroyed books (Juan)
Coded books & espionage
Writing as a political act
Writing from prison (Donna)
Manifestos
Books as business
The book trade
Book fairs
Print culture
Almanacs
Magazines & their market (Olivia)
Newspapers
Public spaces
Famous ancient libraries (private or public) & their conception and use (Luke)
Libraries & their future
Technology & writing
The future of the book (The e-book market & its consequences?) (Chanee)
The digitization of manuscripts