Dr. Hazel Tubman
Hazel joined Maggs in the summer of 2017 after completing her DPhil. at Oxford, examining early modern self-writing practices and the material text. She has been a specialist in the Early European books department since 2018, where she works with early printed books - from the handpress era onwards - and manuscripts, alongside Jonathan Reilly.
Having studied Italian to degree level, Hazel is particularly drawn to early Italian print culture, though one of the best things about her role at Maggs is the great variety of manuscripts, incunables and early printed books from all over Europe that cross her desk. Women's work and/in the early book is a real interest, and she issued the first of several planned short lists on that subject in the summer of 2024, 'Early Modern Women'. Until recently she co-convened the ABA/IES Book Collecting Seminar, and joined the York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS) faculty in 2024.
