Bursary Update
The open competition started in the academic year 2014-2015 and PCS made its inaugural award to Kelly Neubeiser who was studying for an MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Her study is entitled “defining the Classics, how Penguin impacted upon the evolution of a timeless genre”. A precis report can be found in Collector 86 which was published Summer 2016.The 2015-2016 award has been given to Caitlin Holton who is an MSc student at the University of Edinburgh studying Book History and Material Culture. Her study will explore the author-illustrator-publisher relationship through the work of Roald Dahl who had a long-standing relationship with Penguin Books going back to the early 1970s.
On 1 October 2016 we will launch the 2016-2017 award.
