Instructor: Ted Bishop (English). Join distinguished professor and award-winning author Ted Bishop for a delightful afternoon of discovery. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to examine rare books, such as the first European atlas, a hand-printed book by Virginia Woolf, and a first-edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, exploring the relation of the material text to the cultural context, as developed in Professor Bishop's GG-nominated book, The Social Life of Ink. Further, they will participate in the rare (and transgressive) exercise of making gall-nut ink—the ink of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Magna Carta, and Treaty 6—in the pencil-only zone of special collections.

This series of workshops is designed to offer a wide range of hands-on and experiential learning opportunities in special collections. Everything you want to know about Peel Workshops can be found on the Bruce Peel Special Collections website here.