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Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar (2019)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2019). Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03

Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal authorities took a collusive (and cosy) approach to the issue, moving only to p... Read More about Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar.

Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa (2018)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2018). Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(3), 507-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2018.1452420

The title of this essay is taken from the 1975 Penguin African Library revised edition of Antony Martin’s ‘Minding Their Own Business: Zambia’s Struggle against Western Control’. This article exploits archival evidence to highlight Penguin’s distinct... Read More about Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa.

Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972 (2013)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2013). Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412470950

This article examines the trading structures within which UK publishers operated in the markets of Empire and Commonwealth and, in doing so, concentrates on the development there of Penguin Books. It proposes a model of this development mapped onto a... Read More about Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972.

ICH Scotland: a digital heritage project (2011)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Gunn, L., McCleery, A., & McCleery, A. (2011). ICH Scotland: a digital heritage project. Levend Erfgoed: Vakblad voor public folklore & public history, 8, 14-21

What is intangible heritage? (2009)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Gunn, L., McCleery, A., & McCleery, A. (2008). What is intangible heritage?. LocScot, (8-9)

The 1969 Edition of Ulysses: the making of a Penguin Classic. (2008)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2008). The 1969 Edition of Ulysses: the making of a Penguin Classic. James Joyce quarterly, 46, 55-73. doi:10.1353/jjq.0.0110

The status of Ulysses as a classic in the United Kingdom, and, more specifically, its adoption within the academic canon, resulted from its first publication as a paperback by the Penguin Press in 1969. The decisions that Penguin made about price, si... Read More about The 1969 Edition of Ulysses: the making of a Penguin Classic..

Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival (2008)
Journal Article
McCleery, A., Sinclair, M., & Gunn, L. (2008). Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival. Publishing Research Quarterly, 24, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-008-9069-8

A comparison of analyses of the Scottish publishing industry carried out in 1992, 2002 and 2007 underscores the fragility of the sector within a small country within the English-language community. A number of indices reveal either stability or stagn... Read More about Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival.

A Most Serviceable Drudge: the papermills of the Water of Leith. (2007)
Journal Article
Bromage, S., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2007). A Most Serviceable Drudge: the papermills of the Water of Leith. the Quarterly, 63, (9-16). ISSN 1746-6016

This article outlines the twentieth century history of papermaking on the Water of Leith using interviews conducted with a variety of former mill employees as part of the SAPPHIRE initiative. Until the mid-twentieth century, the Water of Leith was an... Read More about A Most Serviceable Drudge: the papermills of the Water of Leith..

Archie Turnbull and Edinburgh University Press (2005)
Journal Article
McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2005). Archie Turnbull and Edinburgh University Press. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 37(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.37.1.33

This article details the life of Archie Turnbull as an Edinburgh publisher, initially working at W.& R. Chambers from 1949 - 1952, then as secretary of the Edinburgh University Press from 1952 - 1987. It notes his role in the expansion of EUP during... Read More about Archie Turnbull and Edinburgh University Press.