Events
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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 >>
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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture 2025
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 [...]
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Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture 2025
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 [...]
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Annual General Meeting 2025
Warburg Institute Woburn Square,, London, United KingdomThe 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 [...]
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Panel for grant recipients 2025
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 [...]
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Lecture: Joseph Hone, T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonSociety 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 [...]
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Lecture: Alan Nelson, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)’
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonSociety 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.
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Lecture: Barbara Heritage, Staying in print: the Brontës, 1846-1876
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonSociety of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Barbara Heritage, Staying in print: the Brontës, 1846-1876 Jane Eyre has never gone out of print in English. Yet not all of the Brontë sisters’ works enjoyed such a wide readership at their outset. Drawing on bibliographical evidence gathered from hundreds of original copies along [...]
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Winter visit 2026 : The Vatican Library
OnlineOn Tuesday 3 March 2026, at 15.30 GMT, the Bibliographical Society will travel virtually to the Vatican Apostolic Library. Founded in 1450 by Pope Nicholas V to promote Humanistic studies, the Vatican Library is one of the world’s most famous libraries. Often viewed principally as a repository of manuscripts, it [...]
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Training day in digital methods for bibliographical study
On Friday 13 March, an in-person training day in digital methods for bibliographical study has been arranged by the Institute of English Studies and the Bibliographical Society, in association with the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester who will host the event. The workshop will provide an [...]
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Presidential Address
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonNicolas Bell, The revision of the Short-Title Catalogue Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London The STC is the largest and most complex enterprise ever undertaken by the Bibliographical Society. The revised edition brought new levels of sophistication and was the fruit of a major transatlantic collaboration, initially between F. [...]
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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonMatthew Payne, Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London's first printing press This paper will examine the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London's first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s. Booking page for online attendance