Susan Reed

Position: Lead Curator, Germanic Studies
Specialism: German Printed Books
Department: Collections
Related Offices: Committee Member, German Studies Library Group

I have been a curator in the British Library’s German collections since 1993, working with both early and modern collections. My research interests include printed material from the revolutions of 1848, and German-language printing and publishing in 19th-century Britain.

I have contributed to various exhibitions within the Library as well as curating smaller displays, and am editor of and a regular contributor to the European Studies blog.

Publications

Articles and chapters

‘‘Wagner und kein Ende’ : German books for the 2013 Wagner bicentenary’ German Studies Library Group Newsletter 45 (2013), 33-39
‘Printing the Revolution: Berlin Broadsides from 1848’, in The Book in Germany , ed. by Mary Fischer (Edinburgh: Merchiston, 2010), pp. 101-115
'Material from the Viennese revolution of 1848 in the British Library', German Studies Library Group Newsletter 42 (2010) 18-24
‘German Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in 19th century Britain’ in Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain 1660-1914 (Munich, 2007) pp. 107-118
‘Berlin’, ‘Munich’ and ‘Weimar’ in Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937, ed. by Stephen Bury (London: British Library, 2007) pp. 77-80; 120-124; 151-161
‘A Collection of German Occasional Verse, 1701-1743, Mostly from East Frisia’, Electronic British Library Journal (2005)

Exhibitions

Breaking the Rules: the Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde 1900-1937 (2007-2008; Sections on Berlin, Weimar and Munich)
The Gutenberg years: anniversaries of printing from 1540 to the present (2000)
Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805 (2005)