By Emeritus Professor Martyn Andrew Lyons

Book Chapters

Lyons M, 2001, 'The book trade and the Australian reader in 1945', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 401 - 407

Lyons M, 2001, 'The library in the workplace: the New South Wales Railway Institute library', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 176 - 189

Lyons M, 1999, 'New readers in the 19th century: women, children, workers', in A history of reading in the west, Polity Press, Oxford, pp. 313 - 344

Lyons M, 1999, 'Reading practices, writing practices: love letters and écritures intimes in 19th century France and Australia', in The culture of the book: essays from two hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zeala, Melbourne, pp. 356 - 365

Lyons M, 1998, 'Librairies et bibliotheques au XIXe siecle`', in Ouvriers en banlieue, XIXe-XXe siecle, Editions de l'Atelier, Paris, pp. 390 - 407

Lyons M, 1997, 'Les Nouveaux Lecteurs au 19e Siecle: Femmes, Enfants, Ouvriers', in Histoire de la Lecture dans le monde occidental, Seuil, Paris, France, pp. 365 - 400

Lyons M, 1991, 'Regionalism and Linguistic Conformity in the French Revolution', in Forrest A; Jones P (ed.), Reshaping France: town, country and region during the French Revolution, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 178 - 192

Lyons M, 1985, 'Les bestsellers du 19e siecle', in Chartier R; Martin HJ (ed.), Histoire de l'Edition francaise, tome 3: Le Temps des Editeurs, Promodis, Paris, pp. 369 - 397

Lyons M, 1985, 'Les contrefacons belges', in Chartier R; Martin HJ (ed.), Histoire de l'Edition francaise, tome 3: Le Temps des Editeurs, Promodis, Paris, pp. 272 - 273

Lyons M, 1983, 'Cobb and the Historians', in Lucas C; Lewis G (ed.), Beyond the Terror: essays in French regional and social history, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 1 - 20

Edited Books

Lyons M, (ed.), 2023, The common writer in modern history, Manchester University Press, Manchester, https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170750/the-common-writer-in-modern-history/

Lyons M; Marquilhas R, (ed.), 2017, Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54136-5

Journal articles

Lyons M, 2026, 'Joseph Jenkins’s Australian Diary: “Carving My Own monument”', International Review of Social History, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020859026101606

Lyons M, 2025, 'Understanding the Writing Revolution of the late 19th century', Culture & History Digital Journal, 14, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2025.404

Lyons M, 2025, 'King Boris I of Andorra (r.July 1934) and modernization in the Pyrenean borderlands', French History and Culture, 12, pp. 85 - 95, https://h-france.net/rude/french-history-and-culture-volume-12/

Lyons M, 2025, 'Reading in the Neighbourhood: Sydney Street Libraries and their Readers', Script and Print, 46, pp. 212 - 237

Lyons M, 2024, 'Posting the nation: Australia’s apprenticeship in letter writing', History Australia, 21, pp. 566 - 584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2412855

Lyons M, 2020, 'Writing Upwards: Letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-1966', Journal of Epistolary Studies, 2, pp. 34 - 51, https://journals.tdl.org/jes/index.php/jes/issue/view/7

Lyons M, 2019, 'Robert Darnton. A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution.', The American Historical Review, 124, pp. 1965 - 1966, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1144

Lyons M, 2019, 'Ships' newspapers and the graphic universe afloat in the nineteenth century', Script and Print, 42, pp. 5 - 25, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=278400928385353;res=IELNZC

Lyons M, 2018, 'Prison Letters: Spain Confronts Its Past', European Journal of Life Writing, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.7.244

Lyons M, 2017, 'Jean-Yves Mollier and the legacy of Lucien Febvre in the history of nineteenth-century French publishing', Lingua Franca: A History of the Book in Translation, 2017, http://www.sharpweb.org/linguafranca/issue-3-2017

Lyons M, 2017, 'Do Peasants Write Egodocuments? The 'ordinary exception' of Luigi Daldosso in the First World War', Quaerendo, 47, pp. 38 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341370

Lyons M, 2016, 'National Histories of the Book in a Transnational Age', Memoires du Livre / Studies in Book Culture, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1036855ar

Lyons M, 2016, 'Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 21, pp. 435 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2016.1150065

Lyons M, 2016, 'Slow Reading in a Hurried Age', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 21, pp. 350 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2016.1139346

Lyons M, 2015, 'The Death of Cannelle and the Re-invention of the Pyrenees', French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rude Seminar, 6 (2014 Seminar), pp. 279 - 291, http://www.h-france.net/rude/rudepapers.html

Lyons MA, 2015, 'Writing Upwards: How the Weak Wrote to the Powerful', Journal of Social History, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv038

Lyons M, 2014, 'How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 19, pp. 935 - 936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2014.965523

Lyons M, 2014, '‘Questo cor che tuo si rese’: the private and the public in Italian women's love letters in the long nineteenth century', Modern Italy, 19, pp. 355 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2014.939162

Lyons M, 2014, 'The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 44, pp. 515 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691414537193g

Lyons M, 2014, 'Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 19, pp. 124 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.859790

Lyons M, 2014, 'Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches, 1914-1918 (France and Italy)', Australian Literary Studies, 29, pp. 41 - 58

Lyons M, 2014, 'QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices', Quaerendo, 44, pp. 219 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341304

Lyons MA, 2014, 'The Power of the Scribe: Delegated Writing in Modern Europe', European History Quarterly, 44, pp. 244 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691414526342

Lyons M, 2013, 'A Reader on Reading', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 18, pp. 950 - 952, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.831234

Lyons M, 2013, 'Celestial Letters: Morals and Magic in Nineteenth-Century France', French History, 27, pp. 496 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crt047

Lyons M, 2012, 'New Directions in the History of Written Culture', Culture & History Digital Journal, 1, pp. e007 - e007, http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2012.007

Lyons M; Mollier J-Y, 2012, 'L'histoire du livre dans une perspective transnationale', Histoire et civilisation du livre - revue internationale, 8, pp. 9 - 20, http://www.droz.org/en/livre/?GCOI=26001100518360

Lyons M, 2012, 'New Directions in the History of Written Culture', Culture and History Digital Journal, 1, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/chdj.2012.007

Lyons M, 2010, '‘A New History from Below ? The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe’', History Australia, 7, pp. 60.1 - 60.9, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100059

Lyons M, 2010, 'Andrew Piper. Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 303. $35.00', The American Historical Review, 115, pp. 883 - 883, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.3.883

Lyons M, 2010, 'Christine Haynes, Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 346. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-03576-8).', Law and History Review, 28, pp. 1103 - 1104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248010000957

Lyons M, 2006, 'Unnaturally French: Foreign citizens in the old regime and after', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 36, pp. 649 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691406068199

Lyons M, 2005, 'Enlightenment and revolution: Essays in honour of Norman Hampson', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 120, pp. 150 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei027

Lyons M, 2005, 'La experiencia lectora y escritora de las mujeres trabajadoras en la Europa del siglo XIX', Cultura Escrita y Sociedad, 1, pp. 158 - 176

Lyons MA, 2004, 'France since 1870: Culture, politics, and society', Journal of Religious History, 28, pp. 202 - 204

Lyons M, 2003, 'French soldiers and their correspondence: towards a history of writing practices in the First World War', French History, 17, pp. 79 - 95

Lyons M, 2002, 'Napoleon and his collaborators: The making of a dictatorship', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 117, pp. 177 - 1278, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000179879600024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lyons M, 2001, 'Church and society in eighteenth-century France, Vol 1: The clerical establishment and its social ramifications', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 25, pp. 221 - 224

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