​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

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Upcoming Books:

• Roberto, R. Illustrating Animals in the 19th century: Popular Taste from Bewick to Beardsley. Oxford: Peter Lang

 

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS + RESOURCES

 

• Democratising Knowledge in Chambers's Encyclopaedia produced with National Museums Scotland 

• Arthur Conan Doyle, the Prolific Writer,  produced for City of Westminster
   

Recent Scolarship:

• Roberto, R. “Illustrating Animals and Visualising Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopædias” IN Comforting Creatures. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 88 (automne) 2018.

• Roberto, R. “The evolution of image making industries and the mid- to late-Victorian press” IN Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900, Ed. Finkelstein, D. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2020.

• Roberto, R. "(Re)Assembling Reference Books and Recycling Images: The Wood Engravings of the W. & R. Chambers Firm" IN Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Slauter, W. and Delamaire S. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. October 2021.

• Roberto, R. "Nineteenth-century women writers who contributed to Chambers’s Encyclopaedia" IN Archer- Parré, C., Hinks, J, and Moog, C. Eds. Women in Print: production, distribution and consumption, Volume 2. Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd. November 2022.

• Roberto, R. “Reflections on 19th-century printing processes based on W. & R. Chambers woodblocks and electrotype plates” IN Printing Things: Blocks, Plates, and Stones 1400-1900: British Academy Proceedings, Oxford University Press. In press.
   

Completed Books:

• Alexiou, A. and Roberto R. eds. Women in Print 1: Design and Identities.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022.

• Parsons, E. and Roberto R. eds. Art Researchers' Guide to Liverpool and Merseyside. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland, 2017.

• Carey, L., Chapman, K., Godfrey, J., Keelan P. and Roberto., R. eds. Art Researchers' Guide to Cardiff and South Wales. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland 2015. 

• Burgess, J., Margiliano, E. and Roberto, R. eds. Art Researchers Guide to Manchester and Salford. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland, 2014.

• Fitzpatrick, O., and Roberto, R. eds. Art Researchers' Guide to Dublin. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland, 2013.  

• Eldon K. and Roberto R., eds. Art Researchers' Guide to Edinburgh. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland,  2012.

• Roberto, R., ed. Art Researchers' Guide to Leeds. London: ARLIS UK & Ireland, 2011.

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