On May 13, historian Andrew Pettegree, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, delivered this year’s Paleography and the Book Visiting Scholar Lecture. Titled “Was War Good for the Book Trade?” the lecture explored the paradoxical relationship between violent conflict and the circulation of books, asking how war has simultaneously devastated and buttressed reading cultures across centuries.

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