Print materials—published and unpublished, text and images—offer us access to histories and ideas that are best understood in context. Who made the photograph and why? How does a print object reflect the community that produced it? What relationships had a role in its creation? The history and culture of Indigenous peoples that we find represented in books and photographs has often been produced by non-Indigenous persons to serve purposes that are separate from (and even in direct opposition to) the interests of the Indigenous individuals and communities they represent. In this workshop, we will examine a variety of rare materials using research methods from the field of book history and consider what we need to know to be able to read between the lines.

Presenter: Linda Quirk (Bruce Peel Special Collections)

This is part of a series of introductory workshops designed to allow students to discover something new in the rare book library. Peel Workshops are normally hands-on events held in the classroom at Bruce Peel Special Collections, but for the winter term in 2021 they will be online.