This episode of How Publishing Works is for the book historians who need a bit more medieval in their listening. Kate Macdonald of Handheld Press is in conversation with Dennis Duncan of University College London, author of Index, A History of the..

What is an index? When was the first index created? When did page numbers come in? Did fairy spellbooks have indexes? Have indexes always been at the back of a book? And what is the attack index?

You can find out more about Dennis's research at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/dr-dennis-duncan.

For more information about Handheld Press, go to www.handheldpress.co.uk. You can email this podcast at podcast@handheldpress.co.uk.

This episode was edited and produced by Kate Macdonald. The jolly intro and outro music is 'Feels Like Home' by Avocado Junkie, sourced through Podcastle.

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