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The Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450–1945

RED Letter: The Newsletter of the Reading Experience Database


The RED Letter was a quarterly newsletter written by Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey, and Mary Hammond between 2005 and 2009. Its purpose was to keep users of the database up-to-date with RED developments, and it also provided a forum for showcasing some of the more interesting evidence of reading that the RED team and its volunteers had found. In early 2010, the RED Letter was replaced with a blog, Reading Experiences, Reading Technologies, which maintains the RED Letter's earlier focus, but also aims to provide a broader survey of events and developments in the digital humanities and the history of reading generally. The back-issues of the RED Letter can be found below.


Newsletter archive


Summer 2009

Spring 2009

Winter 2009

Autumn 2008

Spring 2008

Winter 2008

Autumn 2007

Summer 2007

Spring 2007

Winter 2007

Autumn 2006

Summer 2006

Winter 2005

Spring 2005


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