Historical Conversion of Currency Studies of book history invariably involve determinations of monetary value, and even though we all know how imperfectly historical values are correlated with contemporary ones, it doesn't stop us from trying. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! I've always been unhappy with attempts to [...]
The History of Information (dot com) At first glance, the intriguing website HistoryofInformation.com looks like just another aggregation of historical facts. It isn’t! Jeremy M. Norman has set himself the task of building a meta-history site: a history of data collections tagged by subject category. The resulting website is a [...]
The Plantin Press Online Christophe Plantin was born near the French town of Tours, probably around 1520. After working in Caen and Paris he moved to Antwerp, then one of the most important commercial cities in Europe, where he established a successful publishing house. In 1576, he purchased a building [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council, initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. Earlier posts can be found at Council’s Choice. The Melville Electronic Library The parts of the Melville Electronic Library which may be of particular interest to bibliographers [who will already [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council, initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. Earlier posts can be found at Council’s Choice. December 2023The Wasserzeicheninformationssystem (WZIS): an international database of early watermarksAlthough among watermark aficionados there is still no substitute for Gerhard Piccard’s [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council, initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. Earlier posts can be found at Council’s Choice. Reformation Cardinal: Reginald Pole in 16th-Century Italy and England Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558) has long deserved a better press. Elizabethan propagandists handed [...]
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 October 2023 is by Council member Giles Bergel who writes about the British Book Trade Index. Read this month's Council's Choice where links to [...]
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 September 2023 is by Council member Daryl Green who writes about ‘Richard Sharpe’s Libraries and Books in Medieval England’. 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 August 2023 is by Council member Gabriel Sewell who writes about ‘Columbus Letters, Stolen, Detected and Returned‘. Read this month’s Council’s Choice where links [...]
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 July 2023 is by Council member Justin Croft who considers bibliographical aspects of the riddle 'What’s black and white and re[a]d all over?' Read [...]
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 [...]
