Anna 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 [...]

This 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 [...]

The talk centres on printer-publisher Sarah Hodgson, who produced a Bible in Arabic in Newcastle in 1811, fighting off the Oxford dons to keep it in the north. It provides a reading of Hodgson’s autobiographical manuscripts while tracing her work’s dissemination across the Mediterranean world, reflecting on the challenges of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Annual General Meeting will take place at the Warburg Institute on Tuesday, 28 October 2025 at 6.00 pm. Before the meeting, starting at 5 p.m., Mr Giles Mandelbrote, Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections, will lead a tour of the extensively renovated Institute and its new spaces. Places on [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Before the meeting, the Society’s Gold Medal will be presented to Dr David Shaw. Elvira Miceli, ‘Reapproaching the Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120 II) from the Cava Archive’ This talk will present preliminary findings from research at the medieval archive of [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Joseph Hone, 'T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication' In 1956 it was revealed that Thomas James Wise, a former President of the Bibliographical Society, had stolen more than two hundred leaves from the British Museum to make up [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Alan Nelson, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): eccentric publications of an eccentric man’ Sir Thomas Phillipps’s catalogues of his vast library of printed books, published chaotically 1819-1871, have experienced a similarly chaotic afterlife. Booking page for online attendance.