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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260421T173000
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SUMMARY:Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Payne\, Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press \nThis 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. \nBooking page for online attendance
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/graham-pollard-memorial-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T173000
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SUMMARY:Presidential Address
DESCRIPTION:Nicolas Bell\, The revision of the Short-Title Catalogue \nSociety of Antiquaries Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London \nThe 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. S. Ferguson in London and W. A. Jackson in Harvard. This lecture will draw on a recently discovered treasure-trove of correspondence with all of the major figures in bibliography of the mid-twentieth-century\, charting the first stages of the revision of the catalogue. \nBooking page for online attendance.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/presidential-address/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260314
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SUMMARY:Training day in digital methods for bibliographical study
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe workshop will provide an overview of current digital bibliographic methods and resources followed by a hands-on introduction to some key skills\, where participants will learn how to process and clean bibliographical data; about record linking and querying\, the uses of data visualisation and computer vision in bibliography; and good practice in data management. \nThe session will be led by Giles Bergel (Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford) and Christopher Ohge (Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London). \nFor further information and to book a place\, see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bibliographical-society-digital-skills-training-ies-tickets-1982284737010 
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/training-day-in-digital-methods-for-bibliographical-study/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20260212T141644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T141644Z
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SUMMARY:Winter visit 2026 : The Vatican Library
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 3 March 2026\, at 15.30 GMT\, the Bibliographical Society will travel virtually to the Vatican Apostolic Library. \nFounded 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 preserves much more\, including printed books\, graphic prints\, and coins and medals. \nThe virtual visit will take place on Zoom and will begin with pre-recorded introductions to the library’s history\, its departments and its collections. A live discussion and Q&A will follow. \nThis visit is made possible by the generous consent of his excellency Abp. Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi\, Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church\, and the Rev. Mauro Mantovani\, SDB\, the Library’s Prefect. Our host is Dr Stephen Metzger of the Manuscripts Department. \nFor this very special occasion\, I encourage you to join us online by registering at this link: Bibliographical Society Virtual Winter Visit | 3 March 2026 | Institute of English Studies.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/winter-visit-2026-the-vatican-library/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260217T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260217T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20250923T150050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260125T183700Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Barbara Heritage\, Staying in print: the Brontës\, 1846-1876
DESCRIPTION:Society of Antiquaries Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London \nBarbara Heritage\, Staying in print: the Brontës\, 1846-1876 \nJane 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 with information gleaned from extant publishers’ ledgers\, this talk will trace the early editions\, printings\, and issues of the works of Charlotte\, Emily\, and Anne Brontë during their first three decades in print. The presentation will discuss variant states that have recently come to light\, as well as early translations of the Brontës’ novels. \nBooking page for online attendance.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-barbara-heritage-staying-in-print-the-brontes-1846-1876/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260120T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260120T190000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Alan Nelson\, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)’
DESCRIPTION:Society of Antiquaries Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London \nAlan Nelson\, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): eccentric publications of an eccentric man’ \nSir Thomas Phillipps’s catalogues of his vast library of printed books\, published chaotically 1819-1871\, have experienced a similarly chaotic afterlife. \nBooking page for online attendance.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-alan-nelson-the-printed-book-catalogues-of-sir-thomas-phillipps-1792-1872/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T154113Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Joseph Hone\, T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital
DESCRIPTION:Society of Antiquaries Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London \nJoseph Hone\, ‘T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication‘ \nIn 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 ‘perfect’ early playbooks\, both for his own collection and for sale to clients in Britain and America. This paper reopens the case\, considering: firstly\, how new evidence demonstrates the complicity of Wise’s regular binder\, Riviere and Son; and\, secondly\, what the discarded remnants of Wise’s hospital stock reveals about his bibliographical tastes and priorities. \nBooking page for online attendance.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-joseph-hone-t-j-wises-book-hospital-a-further-study-in-theft-and-sophistication/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20250923T150020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T084016Z
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SUMMARY:Panel for grant recipients 2025
DESCRIPTION:Society of Antiquaries Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London \nBefore the meeting\, the Society’s Gold Medal will be presented to Dr David Shaw. \nElvira Miceli\, ‘Reapproaching the Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern\, Burgerbibliothek\, Cod. 120 II) from the Cava Archive’ \nThis talk will present preliminary findings from research at the medieval archive of Cava de’ Tirreni\, using them to reconsider the palaeography of a major late twelfth­-century codex and broader trends in contemporary book production. \nChristian Algar\, ‘The reassembly\, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): rare book collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’ \nThis talk will discuss the identification and tracking of incunabula and early printed books collected and used by this intriguing yet neglected nineteenth-century figure and how examining the associated biographical and social circumstances is vital for an expanding book history. \nXinyi Wen\, ‘Extra-illustrating early modern natural history’ \nThis talk will examine how and why naturalists extra-illustrated their books between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. \nBooking page for online attendance.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-for-grant-recipients-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251028T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20250924T145552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T150119Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Annual General Meeting will take place at the Warburg Institute on Tuesday\, 28 October 2025 at 6.00 pm. \nBefore 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.\nPlaces on the tour will be limited to 20 and will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis. \nAfter the business of the meeting\, refreshments will be served. \nMembers may bring guests\, but they may not vote in any motion that may be put to the AGM. \nIn order to gauge numbers for catering\, members intending to come are kindly requested to notify the Hon. Secretary by post or email no later than Tuesday\, 21 October 2025.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/annual-general-meeting-2025/
LOCATION:Warburg Institute\, Woburn Square\,\, London\, WC1H 0AB\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250520T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T130705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T184057Z
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SUMMARY:Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Pickwoad: Entitled: The Choice\, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings.\nThe 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 commercial\, institutional or private\, sometimes a long time after the books were first bound\, with a consequent wide variety of type and purpose. Where they are placed on bindings\, and how many times in different places\, also reflects shelving practices and national preferences\, and often gives evidence of the movement of books both within and between libraries. The increasing introduction of edition bindings and printed titles in the eighteenth century indicates a profound change in the identification of books by their titles. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/homee-and-phiroze-randeria-lecture/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250415T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T125859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T183606Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:David Shaw: The Stationers and the Poor Law.\nThe 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 case of need. The London law stationers quickly started to provide printed blank forms for this purpose\, followed by printers in the provinces. The quantities of settlement certificates and related documents produced each year amounted to many tens of thousands. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/graham-pollard-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250318T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T125609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T183300Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Kelly Minot Mccay: The Making of Shorthand Manuals in Early Modern England\, 1588–1700
DESCRIPTION:This 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 >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-kelly-minot-mccay-the-making-of-shorthand-manuals-in-early-modern-england-1588-1700/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20250207T120232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T183914Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Winter Visit to the library at St Catherine’s Monastery\, Mt Sinai
DESCRIPTION: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 is librarian Hieromonk Justin of Sinai. \nAfter the virtual library visit\, we will keep the meeting open for informal conversation in breakout rooms. Please bring your own refreshments. \nAll are welcome. To book your place\, please click here: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/bibliographical-society-virtual-winter-visit-0
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/virtual-winter-visit-to-the-library-at-st-catherines-monastery-mt-sinai/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250218T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T123741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240824T123741Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Claire Bolton: Exploring a Remarkable Collection of Bindings in the Memmingen Stadtarchiv
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-claire-bolton-exploring-a-remarkable-collection-of-bindings-in-the-memmingen-stadtarchiv/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T123441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T140017Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Helen Williams: Sarah Hodgson’s Arabic Bible: Gender\, Empire and the History of the Book
DESCRIPTION: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 feminist recovery and women’s book history through both a provincial and global lens. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-helen-williams-sarah-hodgsons-arabic-bible-gender-empire-and-the-history-of-the-book/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T122743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T184719Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Maureen Bell and Tom Lockwood: Ordered That the Clerke henceforward shall keepe a Wast Booke….
DESCRIPTION: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 Stationers and to cast new light on Restoration authors and their work. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-maureen-bell-and-tom-lockwood-ordered-that-the-clerke-henceforward-shall-keepe-a-wast-booke/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T122347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T191728Z
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SUMMARY:Panel for grant recipients
DESCRIPTION:Anna Lanfranchi: Italian Readers\, American Books and the Second World War: Propaganda and Publishing History in the Archive.\nDuring 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 Italy and Italian-speaking readers to explore how archives may help us problematise the relationship between cultural diplomacy\, the transnational book trade\, and the response of target reading communities. \nAnouska Lester: Cataloguing the Libraries of William and Silvester Petyt in Skipton and Inner Temple.\nIn the early eighteenth century\, brothers William and Silvester Petyt donated substantial collections of books and manuscripts to Inner Temple and their hometown of Skipton in Yorkshire. This paper examines the Petyts’ contributions to their communities in London and Skipton\, and what the extant eighteenth-century catalogues reveal about their collecting practices. \nSilvia Pugliese: The paper production in the eighteenth century Venetian Republic through its use in large format prints and books .\nIn the eighteenth century several paper districts were active in the Venetian Republic\, producing different qualities of paper for both the internal and foreign markets. The material examination of some examples of luxury large size books of prints\, combined with archival documentation\, offers the possibility to start tracing a map of the paper makers involved in the manufacture of the finest papers throughout the century. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-for-grant-recipients/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20241009T152339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T154319Z
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SUMMARY:Bibliographical Skills workshop
DESCRIPTION:What can we learn from old books by closely studying the materials from which they constructed\, the visual appearance of their pages\, or how they have been put together? \nThis free one-day workshop at Newcastle University’s Robinson Library\, supported by the Bibliographical Society\, is intended to equip participants with the necessary skills to understand and analyse the physical features of books produced during the hand-press period (circa 1450-1830). Through a combination of hands-on study\, lectures\, and discussion\, students will learn about subjects such as bibliographical format\, paper\, typography and layout\, and binding styles. \nThe workshop is introductory\, open to all\, and no specialist knowledge is required. \nRefreshments (including lunch) will be provided. \nTo book your free place\, contact Dr Liam Sims (ls457@cam.ac.uk)
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/bibliographical-skills-workshop/
LOCATION:Philip Robinson Library\, University of Newcastle\, Newcastle\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240824T122014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240902T183258Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting 2024
DESCRIPTION:8 October 2024 \nThe Annual General Meeting will take place at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday\, 8 October 2024\, at 6.00 p.m.\nNo tea will be served before the meeting\, but refreshments will be served afterwards.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/annual-general-meeting-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20240320T154448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240520T173040Z
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SUMMARY:Summer visit\, Leeds\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Bibliographical Society’s Summer Visit for 2024 will be to Special Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds\, Woodhouse Lane\, Woodhouse\, Leeds LS2 9JT\, on Thursday\, 20 June 2024\, beginning at 14.00. \nNumbers for this visit are limited and those wishing to attend should notify the Hon. Secretary by email or post no later than Friday\, 14 June. Priority will be given to members of the Society\, and guests may be permitted if numbers allow. Places will be allocated as replies are received and confirmations will be sent. \nFurther details and the booking form can be downloaded from Summer_Visit_Leeds_2024.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/summer-visit-leeds-2024/
LOCATION:University of Leeds\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T103136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T114828Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture - Geoffrey Day
DESCRIPTION:The preservation and recycling of ‘waste’ printed sheets in the eighteenth-century book trade. ‘Waste’ printed sheets were preserved for various reasons: commercial\, idealistic\, and occasionally felonious. Records of such preservation illuminate many areas of the eighteenth-century book trade\, from the identification of responsibility for anonymous publications to demonstrating customer expectations. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/graham-pollard-memorial-lecture-geoffrey-day/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T103236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T115306Z
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SUMMARY:Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture -  Mirjam Foot
DESCRIPTION:Taste and discrimination: The Cerruti Collection of decorated bindings. Very few people outside Italy will have heard of Francesco Federico Cerruti\, a man of great taste and discernment with an excellent eye for quality. As well as paintings\, sculptures\, ceramics and other objects of art\, he collected decorated bindings\, ranging in date from the sixteenth to the twentieth century\, displaying a wide variety of materials\, styles and designs\, originating largely in Italy and France. The lecture will be profusely illustrated. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here. \nSummer visit: details will be announced in The Library for March 2024.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/homee-and-phiroze-randeria-lecture-mirjam-foot/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T103018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T105638Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Presidential Address
DESCRIPTION:RICHARD LINENTHAL: Printed fragments: Scholarship\, collecting and the trade. This paper will focus on the increasing significance of fragments and accidental survivals in our understanding of early printed books. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-presidential-address/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T102910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T160206Z
UID:2081-1708450200-1708455600@bibsoc.org.uk
SUMMARY:Lecture - Kathleen Doyle and Sarah Griffin: A catalogue of medieval concertina-fold almanacs
DESCRIPTION:Concertina-fold almanacs are a type of folded book\, defined by their distinctive structure and content relating to time. This talk describes a project to catalogue all known western medieval examples\, and what their analysis as a group has revealed. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-kathleen-doyle-and-sarah-griffin-a-catalogue-of-medieval-concertina-fold-almanacs/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240131T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240131T183000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231103T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T160327Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual visit to the Cairo Genizah
DESCRIPTION:On 31 January 2024 the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library would like to invite you to experience up close the more than 200\,000 fragments of the Cairo Genizah Collection. This vast archive found in an Egyptian synagogue storeroom is one of the greatest single collections of Jewish and Islamic writings in world history. Ranging from fifth-century CE palimpsests despoiled from the monasteries of the Holy Land\, through the intimate documentary history of the Jews of Fatimid\, Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt\, and up to the period of the Ottomans and even Napoleon\, its scope and depth are unparalleled. \nFor this event\, the head of the Unit Ben Outhwaite will explain why the Genizah is such a remarkable survival\, and he’ll be joined by his Cambridge colleague Nick Posegay whose recent research has exposed the full range of early printed books (from the 15th c. onwards) in the collection\, including remains of the first titles to be printed in Egypt. \nGo to the SAS web site to book for this Zoom talk. \n 
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/virtual-visit-to-the-cairo-genizah/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T102639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T160459Z
UID:2078-1705426200-1705431600@bibsoc.org.uk
SUMMARY:Lecture - Rémi Jimenes: Claude Garamont\, royal type-founder?
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will present new facts and hypotheses on the career of Claude Garamont. It will focus on the years 1538-1544\, during which Garamont was in the service of King François I. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-remi-jimenes-claude-garamont-royal-type-founder/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231212T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231025T200015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T150036Z
UID:2348-1702402200-1702407600@bibsoc.org.uk
SUMMARY:Lecture: Rediscovering Thomas Cromwell’s lost Book of Hours
DESCRIPTION:Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey: Rediscovering Thomas Cromwell’s lost Book of Hours \n\nThis talk explores the process and implications of the recent discovery of a printed Book of Hours once owned by Thomas Cromwell\, and once immortalised by Hans Holbein the Younger in Cromwell’s portrait. \nPlease note that this lecture will take place at Senate House\, Malet Street\, London WC1E 7HU\, Room G3. \nBook your place here >>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/lecture-rediscovering-thomas-cromwells-lost-book-of-hours/
LOCATION:Senate House\, Senate House\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T101905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T111809Z
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SUMMARY:Panel for Grant Recipients
DESCRIPTION:MARIEKE HENDRIKSEN: Anatomy between the pages: The role of anatomical handbooks in anatomical practice\, 1650–1850.\nThis paper explores how affordable anatomy books up to octavo size were used to ‘make anatomy’ by students and medical practitioners\, to perform dissections and create preparations and models of the human body in early modern research and training. \n  \n  \nMOLLY G. YARN: Invisible furniture: Women printers in the London book trade.\nThis paper explores the challenges and rewards of researching early modern women printers\, demonstrating how an approach combining archival\, bibliographical\, and creative methodologies can illuminate women’s lives and their contributions to the book trade. \nGERI DELLA ROCCA DE CANDAL: Aldine proof sheets in the 1499 Dioscorides.\nWhile in-house manuscript corrections in Manutius’s own hand are becoming increasingly known\, proof sheets are much rarer\, and until recently Aldine proof sheets were not known to exist. Three of these have now been identified in different copies of the Dioscorides of 1499\, allowing us for the first time to peek at the way Manutius worked and edited texts. \nRegistration is only required for online attendance. If you would like to attend in-person then join us at the Society of Antiquaries. \nBook your place here >>>
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/grants-recipients-panel/
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, Burlington House\, Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 0BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T141331
CREATED:20231011T081032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T140908Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Annual General Meeting will take place at Lincoln’s Inn Library\, Lincoln’s Inn\, London WC2A 3TN\, on Tuesday\, 24 October 2023\, at 6 p.m. No tea will be served before the meeting\, but refreshments will be served afterwards.
URL:https://bibsoc.org.uk/event/annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Lincoln’s Inn Library\, Lincoln's Inn\, London\, WC2A 3TN\, United Kingdom
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