David Sutton

Visiting Research Fellow

David is responsible for four research projects:

Awards

Benson Medal for outstanding services to literature, Royal Society of Literature, 2002
Archivist of the Year, Scone Foundation, New York, 2006
Location Register / WATCH / FOB have been jointly recognised by the British Academy with the status of Academy Research Project (ARP)

Other roles

Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR), UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
Member of the committees of GLAM (the Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts) and the UK Literary Heritage Working Group. Chair of GLAM, 2010-2017
Chair/Président of the Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) of the International Council on Archives (ICA)
Contributing member of the MILE and ARROW working groups on “orphan works”
Associate Member of the University of Reading English Department
Coordinator of the Reading Fairtrade Town Committee
Leader of Reading Borough Council (1995-2008) and former vice-chair of the Local Government Information Unit
Member of the Board of Reading Buses. Chair of the Board, 2010-
Trustee of the Earley Charity (1987- )
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Member of the Society of Authors
Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2013-2019

International Project Partners, 2015-2022

Areas of interest

Literary manuscripts and literary research; international locations of primary literary materials; copyright and orphan works; international cooperation and fair trade; urban development and municipal government; food history.

Publications

Sutton, D. 'Keeping WATCH: tracking down copyright holders'. Library and information update. 4 (12), December 2005, pp. 42-43.
Sutton, D. Locating UK copyright holders. Electronically published on the WATCH site
Sutton, D. The WATCH Project. SCONUL Newsletter 28, Spring 2003, p. 67.
Sutton, D. C. ‘Locating literary manuscripts’. Reading reading, Spring 1991, pp. 20-21.
Sutton, D.C. ‘Copyright issues in archives’. Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Greek Society of Archivists, Athens, February 2006.
Sutton, D. C. 'Historia de las ales inglesas’. Paper given at Carmona, September 2007, “en el programa del curso Curso interdisciplinario: La cerveza y su mundo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla”.
Sutton, D.C. ‘The language of the food of the poor: studying proverbs with Jean-Louis Flandrin’, in Food and language: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2009, edited by Richard Hosking. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2010, pp. 330-339.
Sutton, D. C.: ‘The stories of bacalao: myth, legend and history’, in Cured, fermented and smoked foods: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010, by Helen Saberi. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2011, pp. 312-321.
Sutton, D.C.: Figs: a global history. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
Sutton, David C.: ‘The destinies of literary manuscripts: past, present and future.’ Archives and manuscripts 42 (3), November 2014, pp. 295-300.
Sutton, David C.: ‘Nefs: ships of the table and the origins of etiquette’, in Material culture: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2013, edited by Mark McWilliams. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2014, pp. 304-313.
Sutton, David C.: ‘Markets under attack: rioters and regulators in Georgian England’, in Markets: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2014, edited by Mark McWilliams. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2015, pp. 388-398.
Sutton, David C.: ‘The Diasporic Literary Archives Network and the Commonwealth: Namibia, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, and other examples.’ New review of information networking 21:1 (2016), pp. 37-51.
Sutton, David C., with Ann Livingstone [editors]:The future of literary archives: diasporic and dispersed collections at risk. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.