The WPHP Monthly Mercury
The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast of The Women's Print History Project, a digital bibliographical database that recovers and discovers women’s print history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries (womensprinthistoryproject.com). Inspired by the titles of periodicals of the period, the WPHP Monthly Mercury dives into the gritty and gorgeous details of investigating women’s work as authors and labourers in the book trades.
Podcasting since 2020 • 39 episodes
The WPHP Monthly Mercury
Latest Episodes
A Newcastle Novelist, feat. Tricia Monsour
On the WPHP, our encounters with books and the women who worked on them are bibliographically-focused, as they must be for a project of this scale—focused attention on the contents of every work and the stories of their producers simply isn’t p...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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47:27
Bibliographic Intimacies, feat. Megan Peiser and Emily D. Spunaugle
For Episode 3 of the fifth season of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “Bibliographic Intimacies,” Kate and Kandice interviewed Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:28:50
Deal with the Devil (feat. Kate Ozment)
Every year, come hell or high water, The WPHP Monthly Mercury has released a gothic-inflected Halloween episode—and this year, we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s 1806 novel
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:05:01
Authority Issues
Authority records, authority figures, authoritative scholarship... What does it really mean to have authority? Nothing good, according to Kandice. However, in working on a new project that relies on bibliographic data from the WPHP, sh...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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53:00
Address-ing Firms; or, The Consequences of Our Own Actions
One of the fields we include in our records for publishing, printing, and bookselling businesses in the WPHP—our firm records—is for the addresses where they operated. Sometimes this is straightforward: one individual working at one location fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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40:36