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2012

Week beginning January 2, 2012


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Week beginning January 9, 2012


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Week beginning January 16, 2012

Tuesday January 17 (6pm) (University College, Gower Street, London) Bibliographical Society - (Pearson Lecture Theatre; Tea in the North Cloisters) Julia Boffey and Matthew Payne: Robert Fabyan: London draper and European bibliophile

Wednesday January 18 (5-7pm) (Divinity School and Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford) Ragtime to riches, a musical legacy at the Bodleian Library

Wednesday January 18 (Zurich) Seminar - Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988: Historical pragmatics and the language of popular newspapers (AHRC Research Network)

Friday January 20 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Dr William Poole: John Fell's New Year Books


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Week beginning January 23, 2012

Monday January 23 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Brian Cummings (Sussex University): The Book of Common Prayer and the History of the Book

Friday January 27 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Mr Mark Purcell (National Trust): The private library in Ireland before the Union


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Week beginning January 30, 2012

Tuesday January 31 (5.15pm) (Room 2.48 of the Humanities Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EU) Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) - Jeffrey Robinson (University of Glasgow): Reading Leigh Hunt’s The Liberal as an Anti-Monarchical Poetics for the 1820s

Wednesday February 1 - Thursday February 2 (Antwerp) Conference - Ambassadors of the Book: Competences for heritage librarians

Friday February 3 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Professor Nicholas Cronk: The problem of 'complete works': the case of Voltaire


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Week beginning February 6, 2012

Thursday February 9 (5pm) (Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford) Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture (2012) - Professor John B. Thompson (Cambridge): Merchants of Culture

Friday February 10 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Professor Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London): The Italian Academies 1525-1700: a Themed Collection database and its research applications


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Week beginning February 13, 2012

Monday February 13 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Elizabeth Solopova (Bodleian Library): The Medieval Liturgical Psalter: Typology and Patterns of Use

Tuesday February 14 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Alessandra Panzanelli (University of Perugia): An Unpublished Treatise of Librarianship in the Italian Renaissance: De Bibliothecis disponendis et informandis, by Prospero Podiani (Perugia ca. 1535 - 1615)--CHANGED DATE

Tuesday February 14 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Book Collecting in Modern Times' - Rick Gekoski

Thursday February 16 - Friday February 17 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal, Germany) Conference - An experimental phase in the history of early printing: Fifteenth-century blockbooks

Friday February 17 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Dr Raphaële Mouren (ENSIBB, Villeurbanne): The humanist editor as author


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Week beginning February 20, 2012

Tuesday February 21 (5.15pm) (Room 2.48 of the Humanities Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EU) Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) - Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow): 'Academics, Enthusiasts & Fraudsters': Challenges in Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century

Tuesday February 21 (6pm) (University College, Gower Street, London) Bibliographical Society - (Pearson Lecture Theatre; Tea in the North Cloisters) The Presidential Address--David Pearson: The English private library in the seventeenth century

Friday February 24 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Professor Mario Infelise (University of Venice): “Masters of Books”; state censorship in Venice during the Counter-Reformation

Saturday February 25 (Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY) Conference - Broadside Day 2012


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Week beginning February 27, 2012

Monday February 27 (5pm) (Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Michael Reeve: Printing the Latin Classics: some episodes - Rome, Urbino, Venice: indexes and commentaries 1469-1499

Tuesday February 28 (5pm) (Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Michael Reeve: Printing the Latin Classics: some episodes - From Urbino to Vienna: a sixteenth-century pioneer

Thursday March 1 (5pm) (Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Michael Reeve: Printing the Latin Classics: some episodes - Berlin and other capitals: nineteenth-century innovations

Friday March 2 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Ms Gaye Morgan: Bookbinding in Oxford in the long sixteenth century


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Week beginning March 5, 2012

Monday March 5 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Kate Bennett (Christ Church): John Aubrey and the Printed Book

Tuesday March 6 (Clare College Cambridge) Conference - Incunabula on the Move

Tuesday March 6 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Fr Peter Harris (Dean of Tower Hamlets): An English Island in Castile: the slumbering treasures of the Biblioteca of the Royal and Pontifical College of St Alban, Valladolid

Friday March 9 (CRIDAF, Université Paris 13, salle D300, UFR LSHS) Conference - International Copyright in the Nineteenth Century

Friday March 9 (2.15pm) (Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford) Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 - Ms Susanna Berger: Early Modern French and Italian illustrated philosophical thesis prints and broadsides


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Week beginning March 12, 2012

Tuesday March 13 (5.15pm) (Room 2.48 of the Humanities Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EU) Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) - Judi Loach (Cardiff University): Just 'A little more nonsense': An Aspect of Private Press Publishing in Inter-War London

Tuesday March 13 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Book Collecting and the Web' - Natalie Galustian, Justin Croft, and others


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Week beginning March 19, 2012

Tuesday March 20 (6pm) (University College, Gower Street, London) Bibliographical Society - Pearson Lecture Theatre; for tea venue tbc) Paul Woudhuysen: 'Rebel, mijn hart:' Dutch Clandestine and Illegal Printing during the German Occupation, 1940-1945

Wednesday March 21 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Dott. Laura Nuvoloni: Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge University Library

Thursday March 22 - Saturday March 24 (St Anne's College, Oxford) Conference - How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th-19th Centuries

Friday March 23 - Sunday March 25 (University of Stirling) Conference - Book Cultures, Book Events

Saturday March 24 (10am-5pm) (Special Collections, University of Reading) Conference - Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940


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Week beginning March 26, 2012

Tuesday March 27 (5.15pm) (Room 2.48 of the Humanities Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EU) Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) - Nicola J. Watson (Open University): Washington Irving, Walter Scott, and the making of American Literary Tourist Sites

Wednesday March 28 (Cardiff) Seminar - Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988: The social semiotics of popular journalism: a long view (AHRC Research Network)


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Week beginning April 2, 2012

Monday April 2 - Tuesday April 3 (KU Leuven and the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels) Workshop - Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts

Tuesday April 3 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Elizabeth Evenden (Newnham College, Cambridge): Selectivity and Survival: Matthew Parker and the Role of the Codex in Early Modern England


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Week beginning April 9, 2012


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Week beginning April 16, 2012

Monday April 16 - Tuesday April 17 (British Library, London) Conference - W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference of a Newspaper Revolutionary

Tuesday April 17 (6pm) (University College, Gower Street, London) Bibliographical Society - (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; for tea venue see tbc) Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture--Falk Eisermann: The Gutenberg Galaxy's Dark Matter: Lost incunabula, and ways to retrieve them

Tuesday April 17 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Collecting ephemera' - Valerie Jackson-Harris


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Week beginning April 23, 2012

Tuesday April 24 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2012) - Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade -- Shakespeare and the Book Trade, 1593-1622: An Introduction

Tuesday April 24 (5.15pm) (Room 2.48 of the Humanities Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EU) Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR) - John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge): Merchants of Culture

Thursday April 26 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Alison Wiggins (University of Glasgow): Editing Bess of Hardwick’s Letters Online

Thursday April 26 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2012) - Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade -- Shakespeare, Publication, and Authorial Misattribution


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Week beginning April 30, 2012

Tuesday May 1 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2012) - Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade -- Introducing Shakespeare's Early Publishers

Tuesday May 1 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Dr. Karen Attar (Senate House Library): The University of London Library during the Second World War

Wednesday May 2 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - (3pm) Visit to Bodleian Bibliography Room at the Story Museum

Thursday May 3 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Florike Egmond (Scaliger Institute, Leiden University): The Webs of Clusius and Gessner: Correspondence, Images, and Collecting in Sixteenth-Century Natural History

Thursday May 3 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2012) - Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade -- Investing in Shakespeare's Playbooks


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Week beginning May 7, 2012

Monday May 7 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Angela Nuovo (University of Udine, Italy): The Italian Book-Privilege System (16th cent.) [CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS]

Tuesday May 8 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2012) - Lukas Erne: Shakespeare and the Book Trade -- Investing in Shakespeare's Poems

Tuesday May 8 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Collecting Bindings' - Edward Baynton-Coward

Thursday May 10 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Chantal Grell (University of Versailles): Editing the Correspondence of Johannes Hevelius: Networks, Themes, and Methodological Challenges

Thursday May 10 (6pm) (Guard Room, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU) Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer: Lectures - Professor Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge), Latin for Lay People: Medieval Prayer Books

Saturday May 12 (9.30am - 5pm) (Leeds Library, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) Conference on Library History: 'Books of every variety of taste': The advance of the library in the long-eighteenth century


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Week beginning May 14, 2012

Sunday May 15 (6pm) (University College, Gower Street, London) Bibliographical Society - (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; for tea venue tbc) Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture--Anthony Hobson Some Italian Renaissance Bindings

Wednesday May 16 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow: Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France

Thursday May 17 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Glenn Roe (University of Oxford): Text Mining Electronic Enlightenment: Influence and Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters


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Week beginning May 21, 2012

Wednesday May 23 (9.30am-6pm) (Berrick Saul Building, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York) Conference - Invention, Philosophy and Technology in the Seventeenth Century

Wednesday May 23 - Thursday May 24 (Department of History, University of Sheffield) Conference - Manuscript and Print in the Eighteenth Century

Thursday May 24 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University): Opening Up the Winter Queen’s Cabinet: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Friday May 25 - Saturday May 26 (Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University) Conference - Manuscript Identities and the Transmission of Texts in the English Renaissance


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Week beginning May 28, 2012

Wednesday May 30 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - (4.30pm) Annual General Meeting to be followed at 5.15 by Lotte Hellinga: Explorations in Early Printing Houses

Thursday May 31 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Konstantin Dierks (Indiana University): An Index of Modernity: Narratives of Communications in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Thursday May 31 (6pm) (Guard Room, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU) Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer: Lectures - Revd. Dr Judith Maltby (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), The Prayer Book Under Duress: Public Worship in England in the Civil War and Interregnum

Saturday June 2 (Birkbeck, University of London) Conference - Missing Texts


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Week beginning June 4, 2012

Tuesday June 5 - Thursday June 7 (University of Sussex) Postgraduate Conference - News in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday June 6 (6pm) (Guard Room, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU) Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer: Lectures - Professor Brian Cummings (University of Sussex), The Genesis of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer

Thursday June 7 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge): ‘An After-Suppers Work’: Sir Kenelm Digby and Varieties of Correspondence in the 1630s

Thursday June 7 - Friday June 8 (University of Reading) Diasporic Literary Archives Workshop: Questions of Location, Ownership and Interpretation

Friday June 8 (University of Reading) Colloquium - Libraries: New Research Directions

Saturday June 9 (Merton College, Oxford) Conference - The Book Through Time: One-Day Conference


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Week beginning June 11, 2012

Tuesday June 12 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Guard Room at Lambeth Palace) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Dr. David Shaw (Canterbury): Interpreting the Benefactors’ Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century -- Intending visitors are asked to contact in advance mary.comer@churchofengland.org.

Tuesday June 12 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Collecting Pre-Raphaelite Books and Illustration' - Paul Goldman

Thursday June 14 (3-5pm) (Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford) Cultures of Knowledge seminar series - David Galbraith (University of Toronto): Editing Evelyn Editing Evelyn

Thursday June 14 (4.30pm) (University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Annual General Meeting and a private view of incunabula with Ed Potten and Dott. Laura Nuvoloni

Friday June 15 - Sunday June 17 (Newcastle University) Conference - Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)


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Week beginning June 18, 2012

Monday June 18 (Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB) Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages

Thursday June 21 - Saturday June 23 (Université Lorraine, Nancy, France) Conference - From Text(s) to Book(s)


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Week beginning June 25, 2012

Monday June 25 - Friday June 29 (Institute of English Studies, University of London) London Rare Books School

Monday June 25 - Tuesday June 26 (London School of Economics) Conference - Intellectual Property as Cultural Technology

Monday June 25 (The Thomas Davis Theatre, Trinity College Dublin) Conference - Building Collections: 300 years of the Old Library

Tuesday June 26 - Friday June 29 (Trinity College, Dublin) Conference - SHARP 2012: The Battle for Books


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Week beginning July 2, 2012

Monday July 2 - Thursday July 5 (Birmingham, England) Conference - Borders and Crossings/Seuils et Traverses: an international and multidisciplinary conference on travel writing

Monday July 2 - Friday July 6 (Institute of English Studies, University of London) London Rare Books School

Tuesday July 3 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries (2011-12) - Professor Alistair Black (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 'The necessity of clear expression': home-grown writing, organisational learning and the library staff magazine in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century

Wednesday July 4 - Friday July 6 (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) Conference - Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society

Thursday July 5 (6pm) (Guard Room, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU) Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer: Lectures - Professor Stephen Taylor and Professor Philip Williamson (University of Durham), Coronation, Prayer Book and People 1660 1953

Sunday July 8 (Zurich) Seminar - Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988: Research methodology and digital newspapers: feasibility and sustainability (AHRC Research Network)


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Week beginning July 9, 2012

Monday July 9 - Friday July 20 (University of Warwick) Residential Workshop - Reading Publics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe

Tuesday July 10 - Thursday July 12 (University of Leicester) Conference - 2012 Print Networks Conference: Street Literature: Cheap Print, Popular Culture and the Book Trade

Tuesday July 10 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2011-12) - Visit to Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Tuesday July 10 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Collecting Counter-Culture' - Carl Williams


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Week beginning July 16, 2012


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Week beginning July 23, 2012

Thursday July 26 - Sunday July 29 (Kavala, Greece) Conference - Knowledge in a Box: How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production


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Week beginning July 30, 2012


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Week beginning August 6, 2012


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Week beginning August 13, 2012


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Week beginning August 20, 2012


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Week beginning August 27, 2012


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Week beginning September 3, 2012

Tuesday September 4 - Wednesday September 5 (Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham) Conference - Industry and Genius in the Printing Trade


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Week beginning September 10, 2012

Tuesday September 11 - Wednesday September 12 (Jesus College, Cambridge) Conference - Texts and Textiles

Wednesday September 12 - Friday September 14 (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) Conference - Speaking Truth to Power: making special collections work in times of recession

Thursday September 13 - Friday September 14 (Institute of English Studies, University of London) Conference - Space and Place in Middlebrow: 1900-1950

Friday September 14 - Saturday September 15 (Magdalen College, Oxford) Conference - Fame and Fortune: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1946

Saturday September 15 (Queen Mary, University of London) Conference - Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives on Eighteenth Century Literature


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Week beginning September 17, 2012

Monday September 17 - Tuesday September 18 (University of Oxford) Conference - Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012


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Week beginning September 24, 2012

Tuesday September 25 (Sir Geoffrey Keynes Room, Cambridge University Library ) Cambridge Incunabula Masterclass: Integrating Images in the Fifteenth-Century Book

Thursday September 27 (5.45pm) (National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) Andrew Martin: From Page to Screen: Scottish Writers on Film -- Joint EBS and NLS meeting. Coinciding with the NLS exhibition.


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Week beginning October 1, 2012


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Week beginning October 8, 2012

Tuesday October 9 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Collecting Autographs and Manuscripts' - Julian Browning

Thursday October 11 (5.45pm) (Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Dr William Zachs: The Revd Hugh Blair: the J.K. Rowling of 18th-century Scotland -- Joint EBS and IASH meeting. Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres at the University of Edinburgh.

Friday October 12 (Oxford, Somerville College / Taylor Institution) Conference - Medieval Women and Their Books: Manuscript Culture and Devotion in Germany and the Low Countries


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Week beginning October 15, 2012

Monday October 15 (6.15pm-7.30pm) (Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road) Panizzi Lectures - Professor Brian Richardson: Women, Books and Communities in Renaissance Italy

Tuesday October 16 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Annual General Meeting

Saturday October 20 (Institute of English Studies in London University) Conference - The Book in Africa


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Week beginning October 22, 2012

Monday October 22 (6.15pm-7.30pm) (Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road) Panizzi Lectures - Professor Brian Richardson: Women, Books and Communities in Renaissance Italy

Monday October 22 (7.30pm for 8pm) (St Mary's Church Hall, Chart Lane, Reigate) Cranston Lecture 2012 - Dr William Jacob: The Context and Purpose of Parochial Libraries in the Early-eighteenth Century / Hilary Ely: Three or Four Families in a Country Village: the Betchworth Connection to the Cranston Library

Tuesday October 23 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Professor David McKitterick: The art of the book in history


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Week beginning October 29, 2012

Monday October 29 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Prof. Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford): 'In their Tables': Hamlet Q1 and its Audience

Monday October 29 (6.15pm-7.30pm) (Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road) Panizzi Lectures - Professor Brian Richardson: Women, Books and Communities in Renaissance Italy

Tuesday October 30 (10am-5pm) (British Library Conference Centre, London) Conference - CERL Annual Seminar: Accessing heritage research collections through digitization: models and use

Tuesday October 30 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Denise Mina: Making The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo a Graphic Novel


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Week beginning November 5, 2012

Monday November 5 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Martyn Ould (Old School Press): Daily Life at the 18th-Century Oxford Bible Press: The Witness of the 1772 Large Quarto Bible

Monday November 5 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Lucy Munro (University of Keele): Casting, Evidence, and the King’s Men

Tuesday November 6 (4-7pm) (Aldham Roberts Library, Liverpool John Moores University) Launch of Phase One (1843-1847) of the Punch Contributor Ledgers Digital Project

Tuesday November 6 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Tim Dee: 'It passes quickly as a thought’ - flight, painting and extinction in Audubon's life and work

Thursday November 8 (6pm) (National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Annual John Murray Archive Lecture -- James Knox: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster: Satirist, Cartoonist, Writer, Dandy and Wit -- Joint EBS and NLS meeting

Friday November 9 (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London) Conference - The Permissive Archive

Saturday November 10 (University of Roehampton, London) Conference - Beyond the Book


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Week beginning November 12, 2012

Monday November 12 (3.30pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Visit to the Balliol College Archives

Tuesday November 13 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Book Collecting: The Financial Nuts and Bolts' - Jolyon Hudson

Tuesday November 13 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Professor Phil Baines, UAL: Central St Martin's: Penguin Cover Stories: From The Typographic To The Visual

Wednesday November 14 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - (6pm, Arnolfini, Bristol) - Graphic novels - A special evening of words, art and music to celebrate the graphic novel with Alison Bechdel; Bristol-based Joff Winterhart; Katie Green; Simone Lia and Karrie Fransman, culminating in a live reading of The Tale of Brin & Bent and Minno Marylebone by Ravi Thornton, with projected artwork by Andy Hixon, and live musical score by Othon. For further information please go to: http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=4567

Thursday November 15 - Sunday November 18 (Ghent University, Belgium) Conference - Reconfiguring Authorship

Friday November 16 - Saturday November 17 (Kingston University, London) Conference - The Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI) Annual Conference


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Week beginning November 19, 2012

Tuesday November 20 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Paolo Sachet: An Aldine ghost story.

Tuesday November 20 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Dr Jan Marsh, William Morris Society: William Morris And The Art Of The Book

Thursday November 22 (9:45am-5.30pm) (University of Westminster) Conference - Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image

Sunday November 25 - Monday November 26 (Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD) Conference - Balancing the Books: Financing the Book Trade from the 16th Century


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Week beginning November 26, 2012

Sunday November 25 - Monday November 26 (Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD) Conference - Balancing the Books: Financing the Book Trade from the 16th Century

Monday November 26 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Edmund King (Open University): Interpreting Early Modern Co-Authorship in the Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Edition

Tuesday November 27 (6pm) (Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol) The Art of the Book: Autumn Art Lectures (2012) - Sarah Bodman, University of the West of England: The Contemporary Artist And The Art Of The Book

Wednesday November 28 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Dr Martin Davies: The Master of the Barbo Missal and the coming of print to Italy

Thursday November 29 - Friday November 30 (King's College, London / Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) Conference - Writing Materials: Women of Letters from Enlightenment to Modernity

Friday November 30 (Chetham's Library, Long Millgate, Manchester, M3 1SB) Conference - Politics and the Power of Print: A Book History Research Network Study Day


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Week beginning December 3, 2012

Monday December 3 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Sonia Massai (King’s College London): Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts

Thursday December 6 (5.45pm) (Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Prof. Alasdair MacDonald: Thomas Bassandyne, John Scot and the Gude and Godlie Ballatis


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Week beginning December 10, 2012

Tuesday December 11 (6.00 to 7.30 pm) (University of London's Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012 - 'Science, Illustration and the Royal Society' - Roger Gaskell


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Week beginning December 17, 2012

Tuesday December 18 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Elizabeth Upper: Colour Printmaking in Tudor Books


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2013

Week beginning January 7, 2013

Monday January 7 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Sarah Neville (West Virginia University): Reassessing the Reprint in the Early English Book Trade


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Week beginning January 14, 2013

Monday January 14 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham): Gathering Shakespeare: Consolidating the Apocrypha

Tuesday January 15 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - David Shaw: Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp


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Week beginning January 21, 2013

Monday January 21 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Prof. Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University): Early Modern Play Manuscripts and Their Licensing

Wednesday January 23 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Dr Vincenzo Vergiani: South Asian manuscript culture as represented in the Sanskrit collections of the University Library, Cambridge

Thursday January 24 (5.45pm) (Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Carmen Wright: The Pleasures of Bookdealing in 21st Century Edinburgh


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Monday January 28 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Richard Gameson (Durham University): The Earliest English Royal Books


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Monday February 4 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. M. A. Katritzky (Open University): Shakespeare’s Bottom: Printed Sources for Monsters and Marvels in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Saturday February 9 (Winchester College, Winchester, SO23 9NA) Conference - Unlocking the Private Library


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Monday February 11 (5.30-7.30) (Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London) Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England - Dr. Kate Ellis (Bath Spa University): 'More wittily penned, then wysely staged': Middleton and the Spanish Match

Thursday February 14 - Friday February 15 (The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH) Conference - The Production and Circulation of Printed Books in the Occident and Orient from the Accession of the Tang Dynasty (c.618) to the First Industrial Revolution


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Week beginning February 18, 2013

Monday February 18 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Alixe Bovey (University of Kent): The Hours of Jean de Carpentin: A Deluxe Netherlandish Manuscript of the 1470s, Filial Piety, and the Twentieth Century

Tuesday February 19 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Julian Pooley: Working tools almost daily in demand

Thursday February 21 (5.45pm) (National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Dr Keith A. Manley: Researching Scottish Subscription Libraries -- and English, Irish, and Welsh too -- Joint EBS and NLS meeting. Celebrating our publication of Keith Manley’s Books, Borrowers, and Shareholders: Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries before 1825, a survey and a listing.

Saturday February 23 (9.30am-5.30pm) (Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY) Conference - Broadside Day


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Monday February 25 (5pm) (Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Jim Secord: Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age - Fantastic voyages: Humphry Davy's Consolations in travel

Monday February 25 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Paddy Bullard (University of Kent): 'Bare words not being sufficient...': Tacit Knowledge and Early-Modern Books

Tuesday February 26 (5pm) (Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Jim Secord: Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age - The conduct of gentlemen: John Herschel's Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy

Wednesday February 27 (5pm) (Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge) Sandars lectures - Professor Jim Secord: Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age - Nature for the people: George Combe's Constitution of man

Wednesday February 27 (5.30pm) (Magdalen College Summer Common Room, Oxford) Magdalen Library Seminar - Dr Tom Freeman: The Making of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Thursday February 28 (5pm) (Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford) Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture (2013) - Xu Bing: The sort of artist I am


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Thursday March 14 (5.45pm) (Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Annual Business Meeting -- Dr Warren McDougall: That Extraordinary Bookseller, Charles Elliot of Edinburgh, and the significance of his Letterbooks and Ledgers -- Annual dinner, dedicated to Charles Elliot and the booksellers of 18th century Edinburgh.

Friday March 15 - Saturday March 16 (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House) Conference - Writers and their Libraries


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Tuesday March 19 (5.30pm) (Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Peter Fox: The Fagel collection: from Den Haag to Dublin

Friday March 22 (University of Reading) Conference - Printed Image and Decorative Print, 1500-1750


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Saturday April 6 - Sunday April 7 (The Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, 1046 Bristol Road, Birmingham, UK) Conference - Industry and Genius: John Baskerville: art, industry and technology in the Enlightenment


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Friday April 12 (Aula of Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague) Conference - Illustrating the Early Printed Book


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Monday April 15 (2-5pm) (St John's College Oxford) Conference - Lecture and Library Tour at St John's [New!]

Tuesday April 16 (5.30pm) ( Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture -- Cynthia Johnston: Penflourishing in Manuscripts associated with William de Brailes

Saturday April 20 - Sunday April 21 (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford) Oxford Book Fair[New!]


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Week beginning April 22, 2013

Tuesday April 23 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2013) - Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge): Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings -- Autographs Ancient and Modern[New!]

Thursday April 25 (9.30-4) (T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) Workshop - Describing, Analysing and Identifying Early Modern Handwriting: Methods and Issues[New!]

Thursday April 25 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2013) - Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge): Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings -- Medieval English Literary Autographs 1: Fugitive Pieces[New!]

Thursday April 25 (6pm) (Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Weston Link, the Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL--enter from Princes Street Gardens) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Joint EBS and NGS meeting -- Ann Simpson: From Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. to Stoneypath: the Ian Hamilton Finlay Archives at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art[New!]


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Week beginning April 29, 2013

Monday April 29 (5pm) (Oxford Law Faculty The Cube, Oxford) Astor Fund Visiting Lectureship 2013 - Professor Mark Rose: Two Authors in Court: Alexander Pope and J.D. Salinger

Tuesday April 30 (5pm) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2013) - Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge): Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings -- Medieval English Literary Autographs 2: Set Pieces

Tuesday April 30 (5pm) ((Merton College Mure Room, Oxford) Astor Fund Visiting Lectureship 2013 - Professor Mark Rose: Stowe v Thomas: Uncle Tom's Cabin in Court

Wednesday May 1 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Elizabeth Upper, Munby Fellow: Beheaded cows, English religious politics and the title vignette of Rede me and be nott wrothe (1528)

Thursday May 2 (5pm) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2013) - Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge): Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings -- Medieval English Autograph Letters 1: The Hand of the Family

Thursday May 2 (5pm) (St Peter's College Dorfmann Room, Oxford) Astor Fund Visiting Lectureship 2013 - Professor Mark Rose: Applied Literary Criticism: The Role of the Expert in Copyright Litigation


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Week beginning May 6, 2013

Monday May 6 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library): Photography and the Book

Tuesday May 7 (5pm ) (TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford) James P.R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography (2013) - Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge): Aspects of Late-Medieval English Autograph Writings -- Medieval English Autograph Letters 2: The Hands of Others

Tuesday May 7 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Room 349 (3rd floor), Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU) Seminar on the History of Libraries - Geoffrey Little (Concordia University Libraries): Adaptées aux milieux canadiens-français et catholiques: Educating Librarians to be Censors at the Université de Montréal, 1937-61

Wednesday May 8 (5pm) (Humss 188, University of Reading) Archives and Texts Seminars (2013) - Dr Lise Jaillant (University of British Columbia, Canada): Messy Modernism: Looking for Woolf, Eliot, Joyce and others in Publishers' Archives

Thursday May 9 - Friday May 10 (University of Freiburg, Germany) Conference - Network Conference for German Scholars of Book History and Print Culture

Friday May 10 (The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon) Symposium - Reanimating Playbooks: Editing for Performance, Performance for Editing

Saturday May 11 (St Paul’s Girls’ School, Brook Green, Hammersmith, London W6 7BS) Conference - Children's Book Publishing in the Hand-Press Period: progress in research.


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Monday May 13 (5pm) (Humss 106, University of Reading) Archives and Texts Seminars (2013) - Dr Billy Smart (Film, Theatre & Television, Reading): The BBC Television Audience Research Reports, 1957-79: Recorded opinions and invisible expectations

Tuesday May 14 (6pm) (Room 104, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting - Brian Alderson: Collecting Children's Books

Wednesday May 15 (4.30-6pm, preceded by tea from 4.00pm) (Brotherton Room, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds) Seminar - Nicolas Barker: The Making of 'Printing and the Mind of Man'

Wednesday May 15 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Professor Alison Sinclair: Today we shall go slumming


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Monday May 20 (5.30pm) (Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE) Bibliographical Society - The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture -- Bamber Gascoigne: Charmers and Charlatans[New!]

Wednesday May 22 - Friday May 24 (Université du Maine, Le Mans, France) Conference - Texts, Forms and Readings in Europe (18th-21st centuries): SHARP Focussed Conference

Saturday May 25 (Sir Duncan Rice Library, Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen) Symposium - The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions[New!]


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Friday May 31 (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester) Conference - Text and Image in the City: Print and Manuscript Culture in British and European Towns and Cities

Saturday June 1 (2pm) Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (2012–13) - Annual Visit -- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly the Dean Gallery), 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3DS. Material from the Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive


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Week beginning June 3, 2013

Tuesday June 4 (5.30pm-7.30pm) (Guard Room at Lambeth Palace) Seminar on the History of Libraries - Dunstan Roberts (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): 'Spirituall Garrisons'?: Catholic Books in Protestant Libraries - Intending visitors are asked to send an email in advance to mary.comer@churchofengland.org.[New!]

Wednesday June 5 (4.30pm; lecture to follow at 5:15 pm) (McKenna Room, Christ Church, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) Annual General Meeting - Nigel Palmer (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): The Making of an Illustrated Prayerbook in 14th and 15th-Century Strasbourg: Ursula Begerin


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Week beginning June 10, 2013

Monday June 10 (Eliot Room, Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB) Seminar - Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages[New!]

Tuesday June 11 (6pm) (The Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting - Julia Elton (Elton Engineering Books): How the Modern World was Made: The Literature of Engineering[New!]

Thursday June 13 (4:30 pm) (Munro Room, Queens' College, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Tea, followed by the Annual General Meeting and a private view of Queens' College Old Library

Friday June 14 - Saturday June 15 (Trinity College, Oxford) Conference - Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle


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Week beginning June 24, 2013

Monday June 24 - Friday June 28 (Institute of English Studies, University of London) London Rare Books School (2013)[New!]

Tuesday June 25 (5.30pm-7.30pm) Seminar on the History of Libraries - A Library Walk is being organized, to be led by Alice Ford-Smith, to commence at 5.30 p.m. at the Foyle Special Collections Library, Kings College, Strand (for a tailored display of material).[New!]

Friday June 28 (Warburg Institute, London ) Conference - Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science

Friday June 28 - Saturday June 29 (King's College, Cambridge) Conference - Floreat Bibliomania: Great Collectors and their Grand Designs - A centenary conference in memory of A.N.L. (Tim) Munby[New!]


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Week beginning July 1, 2013

Monday July 1 - Friday July 5 (Institute of English Studies, University of London) London Rare Books School (2013)[New!]

Wednesday July 3 (Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, University Complutense of Madrid) Conference - Book History and Bibliography in Spain: Toward a Definition of Their Boundaries and Objectives / Bibliografía e Historia del Libro en España: hacia una definición de sus fronteras y objetivos

Thursday July 4 - Friday July 5 (Corsham Court, Corsham) Conference - Transitions[New!]


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Week beginning July 8, 2013

Tuesday July 9 (6pm) (The Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Seminar Series on Book Collecting - Robert Shepherd (Sangorski & Sutcliffe): The Cinderella of the Arts[New!]

Friday July 12 - Saturday July 13 (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) Conference - The 45th Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: Tradition and New

Saturday July 13 (University of Leeds) Conference - Gendering the Book


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Week beginning July 15, 2013

Monday July 15 (5.15pm) (Taylor Institution, Oxford) Oxford Bibliographical Society (2012-13) - Visit to the Royal Society Library

Thursday July 18 - Sunday July 21 (Philadelphia) Conference - SHARP 2013: Geographies of the Book


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Tuesday July 23 - Thursday July 25 (University of Chichester) Conference - Print Networks Conference: Travel, Topography and the Book Trade

Friday July 26 - Sunday July 28 (Queen Mary, University of London) Conference - News and the Shape of Europe 1500-1750


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Monday September 16 - Tuesday September 17 (University of Oxford) Conference - Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies


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Friday November 15 - Sunday November 17 (Library of Birmingham) Conference - Resurrecting the Book


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Wednesday November 20 - Friday November 22 (École normale supérieure, Paris) Conference - 10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013): Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism[New!]

Saturday November 23 (St Peter’s College, Oxford) Conference - Text and Book in the Age of Swift[New!]


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Friday January 24 - Saturday January 25 (Liverpool) Conference - Community Libraries: Connecting Readers in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 - Libraries in the Atlantic World[New!]


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