Virtual Winter Visit to the library at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai

The Bibliographical Society travels virtually to visit the library at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai, on Thursday, 27 February, at 17.00 GMT. The virtual visit will take place on Zoom and will compromise a pre-recorded introduction to the library and its collections, followed by live discussion and Q&A. Our host [...]

Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture 2025

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

David 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 2025

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

Nicholas 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 [...]