Annual General Meeting 2024
8 October 2024 The Annual General Meeting will take place at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, 8 October 2024, at 6.00 p.m. No tea will be served before the meeting, but refreshments will be served afterwards.
Panel for grant recipients
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonAnna Lanfranchi: Italian Readers, American Books and the Second World War: Propaganda and Publishing History in the Archive. During WWII, the United States employed books to foster the Allied war effort and “disintoxicate” audiences from Fascist propaganda in liberated territories (Hench 2010). This paper considers the publishing and translation activity targeting [...]
Lecture: Maureen Bell and Tom Lockwood: Ordered That the Clerke henceforward shall keepe a Wast Booke….
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThis paper identifies and explores ‘The Wast Register booke for entring of Coppies’ that the Stationers’ Company started to keep on 7 April 1687. We will locate that document among the Company’s records, and show the ways in which it provides a new opportunity both to investigate the practices of [...]
Lecture: Helen Williams: Sarah Hodgson’s Arabic Bible: Gender, Empire and the History of the Book
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonFurther details on this paper will be posted later. Book your place here >>
Lecture: Claire Bolton: Exploring a Remarkable Collection of Bindings in the Memmingen Stadtarchiv
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThe Memmingen Stadtarchiv contains over 170 (perhaps 200) fifteenth-century bindings from three (perhaps four) Memmingen workshops. This talk discusses the similarities and differences between the finishing and forwarding methods between them, and over time. Book your place here >>
Lecture: Kelly Minot Mccay: The Making of Shorthand Manuals in Early Modern England, 1588–1700
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThis paper explores the people and production behind the swell of shorthand manuals in seventeenth-century England, demonstrating what a detailed bibliography of the printed genre has revealed about an overlooked yet widely used manuscript technology. Book your place here >>
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonDavid Shaw: The Stationers and the Poor Law. The Settlement Act of 1697 required that poor people wishing to move to somewhere new must obtain an indemnity certificate from their ‘settled’ parish to assure the overseers of the poor in their new location that their old parish would support them in [...]
Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonNicholas Pickwoad: Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings. The introduction of standardised titles on the bindings of early modern printed books is a relatively recent phenomenon. Until well into the eighteenth century they appear mostly to have been added on the instructions of the owner, whether [...]