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Martyn Lyons



Emeritus Professor of History & European Studies
BA DPhil Oxford FAHA
School of Humanities and Languages

He was born in London, took his D.Phil. at Oxford University and has been at UNSW since 1977. He is a former head of the history school, and was the Faculty’s Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Affairs from 2002-7. He is currently Professor of History and European Studies in the School of Humanities. His main research interests are in two distinct fields: French revolutionary and Napoleonic history and the history of books, reading and writing in Europe and Australia. He has produced sixteen books, including 'A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World' (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), and more recently 'The Writing Culture o
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Average rating: 3.99 · 558 ratings · 74 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Books: A Living History

3.99 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions
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Napoleon Bonaparte and the ...

4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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A History of Reading and Wr...

3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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The Typewriter Century: A C...

4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings3 editions
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France under the Directory

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions
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Post-revolutionary Europe: ...

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Readers and Society in Nine...

4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Storia della lettura e dell...

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Approaches to the History o...

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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions
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Ordinary Writings, Personal...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007
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“During the late Victorian period, one English woman in Hampshire who suffered from fits reportedly ate an entire New Testament in an attempt to cure her illness, putting each page in the middle of a sandwich.”
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