Dr Helen Williams

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Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow 📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021) 📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024) 📚 Working on a global history of women in book production

A detail from the gutter margins of a manuscript apprentice register, featuring entries of apprentices turned over in an eighteenth-century secretary hand.

Courtyard garden of the Plantin-Moretus printing museum, featuring cobbled walkways between box planting and surrounded by early modern architecture.

An engraving by Thomas Bewick of four boys sitting on tombstones, pretending to be cavalry. The foremost is blowing a horn.