From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography. Over forty awards have been made since the first in 1929. We are delighted that the recipient this year is Professor Peter Blayney, the world’s leading authority on printing and the book trade in early-modern [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for June 2023 is by Past President Kristian Jensen who writes about the digitisation of the British Library’s catalogues of incunabula in ‘BMC goes online‘. [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for May 2023 is by member of Council Anke Timmermann. She writes about ‘M. R. James’s Catalogue of Western manuscripts in Trinity College Library, Cambridge [...]
From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Over forty awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 [...]
It is with great sadness that the Society notes the death of Robin Myers, the Society’s first female President (1996-1998), who passed away on the morning of her 97th birthday on 1 May 2023. Robin was the longest serving member of Council and acted as the Society’s Hon. Librarian until her [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for April 2023 is by member of Council Simon Beattie. He writes about 'Decorated paper'. Read this month's Council's Choice.
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for March 2023 is by member of Council Yvonne Lewis. She writes about ‘Revisiting the past: discovering the provenance of an embroidered binding‘. Read this month's [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for January 2023 is by a new member of Council, Alessandro Bianchi. He writes about discovering Japanese rare books and manuscripts. Read this month's Council's Choice.
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for December 2022 is by our new President, Richard Linenthal. He writes about the Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog. Go to http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice.
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for November 2022 is by our new Vice-President, Julia Walworth. She writes about ‘Women in the Manuscript Trade’, a podcast of the Cultivate [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for October 2022 is by James Raven, our outgoing President, who writes about Francysk Skaryna (c. 1470 – 1552), Belarusian humanist, physician, and [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The choice for September 2022 is by Nicolas Bell, one of the Society's Vice-Presidents and Hon. Reviews Editor of The Library, who writes about 'Searching [...]