Documentation of the exhibition and reading room display at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery & Emancipation (WISE).

Beyond Words at WISE comprises a reading room showing the full collection of artists’ publications together in one place for the first time, and it also marks the final publication for the series by Ruth Ewan who has brought Twenty-Nine Thousand Nights: A Communist Life the unpublished autobiography of Nan Berger to life through archival research in libraries including the Liberty Archive at the Hull History Centre. Material from Nan Berger archives is shown, together with films by Helen Cammock and Hannah Dawn Henderson that were made in response to their library residencies, as well as a selection of other Book Works titles.