Institute of English Studies

The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, is an internationally renowned research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, and textual scholarship. It offers postgraduate programmes and summer schools, hosts major collaborative research projects, provides essential research training in book history and palaeography.

The School's mission is to maintain and develop the resources of its nine member institutes, many of which have long and distinguished histories, for the benefit of national and international research communities. The School achieves its mission by:

• Providing a research base for an international community of scholars

• Inspiring, developing, and supporting innovative research initiatives and networks

• Enhancing the dissemination of the research of others, and related activities, beyond what they or their institutions could achieve alone

• Providing specialist research training at master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels - locally, nationally, and internationally