Tuesday November 17 (6pm) (Chadwick Lecture Theatre, University College, Gower Street, London; Tea in the Jeremy Bentham Room) Bibliographical Society - Janet Ing Freeman: 'Poor Ralph': The Fragile Career of a Regency Hack - At the meeting the Society's Gold Medal will be presented to Dr. Lotte Hellinga

Wednesday November 18 (5pm) (Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge) Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2009-10) - Cristina Dondi: The Venetian Book Trade in the 15th century: material evidence for the economic and social history of the Renaissance

Friday November 20 (Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool) Study day - Reading Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century France

Friday November 20 (1-2pm) (5th Floor, Edinburgh University Main Library, Edinburgh) Edinburgh Book History Seminar Series (2009-10) - Peter Garside (English Literature): Illustrating the Waverley Novels: Scott, Scotland, and the London Print Trade, 1819-36

Friday November 20 (2pm-5pm) (British Library, London) Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1650 workshop - The Cataloguing of (Political) Manuscripts

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Call for Graduate Papers
The Centre will be holding its inaugural conference on 5-6 April 2010. The purpose of the conference is to explore a variety of current approaches to material textuality across a range of periods and disciplines. Plenary speakers include Leah Price and Peter Stallybrass. Conference panels will include contributions from members of the Faculty, members of the University in other disciplines, and leading international scholars.

We invite any postgraduate students who are interested in participating to submit a short (250-300 word) abstract of their paper, or to propose a panel by submitting three linked abstracts, by Monday 14 December 2009.

More information about the Centre is available on the pilot website (http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/). Proposals should be sent to the Centre's Director, Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk)

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The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the second year of this AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College London.

The course is open only to arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.

The first half of the course involves morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers.

The course is free of charge but is open to UK doctoral students only. It is principally aimed at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. Priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly recommended.

For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact Dr Peter Stokes at mmsda@sas.ac.uk.

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Sponsored by Ecclesiastical Insurance

Programme

10.15 Coffee and networking
11.00 Welcome
11.15 Judith Barnes, Collection Security Co-ordinator: British Library Collection security
12.00 Ecclesiastical insurance: The insurer's perspective
12.45 Questions to speakers
1.00 Lunch
2.00 HLF AGM
2.15 Peter Hoare: Security marking
2.30 Panel discussion (5-10 mins each to explain what happened at their library, followed by questions addressed to the panel from the floor) - Sheila Hingley, Head of Heritage Collections, Durham University Library (First folio theft & recovery); Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society (Thefts from the library); Christine Penney, Hurd Librarian; Renae Satterley, Rare Books Librarian, Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Tracing stolen books).
3.45 Final questions

Cost will be £45.00 including lunch, tea and coffee. NOW FULLY BOOKED. To join the waiting list, please visit conference website: http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/events.html

Contact Edward Potten: edward.potten@manchester.ac.uk

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22 Jan Dr Neil Kenny (University of Cambridge): Functions of the title-page of learned books, c. 1550-1650
29 Jan Mme Isabelle de Conihout (Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris): The beginning of collecting printed chivalric romances in seventeenth-century France
5 Feb Dr Cristina Neagu: Albrecht Dürer's broadsheets and the emerging ars emblematica
12 Feb Dr Natalie Ferrand (CNRS, Maison Française): Reading books with eyes wide open: illustrated novels in the Enlightenment
19 Feb Dr James Willoughby: An English library in Renaissance Rome
26 Feb Professor Angela Nuovo (University of Udine): The book trade in sixteenth-century Italy and the development of the branch system
5 Mar Dr Natalia Nowakowska: Early Reformation polemic in Poland
12 Mar Dr Gillian Bepler (Herzog-August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel): Women and dynastic book collecting in early modern Germany

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Antoine Capet will explain how Morris combined his knowledge of traditional book making with the skills of prominent artists and craft workers to produce work that met his exacting standards for the ideal book.

Sponsored by the William Morris Society.

Tickets: members and seniors £6; non-members £8; students and unemployed £4. All applications for tickets to William Morris Society office: Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA, marking the envelope "tickets" and enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. Please pay for visits with a separate check for each visit. For more information about any event please call the office on 020 8741 3735 or email william.morris@care4free.net.

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In 1623 the Earl of Kellie noted that a closed cabal had emerged at court over certain confidential matters, consisting of King Charles, the all-powerful George Villiers, and 'Secreterrye Connowaye, whoe is my Lord of Bukkinghames confident, and I think a verrye honnest man'. Edward, first Viscount Conway (1564-1631), principal secretary of state to James I and Charles I, is a relatively understudied figure given both his contemporary power and his notable interest in the major poets of the seventeenth century. Furthermore, his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655), was perhaps the most significant English book collector of his age, whose London and Irish libraries held between them around 13,000 volumes.

The family's collection of personal and official documents, the Conway Papers, is riddled with technical difficulties. Nevertheless, it contains uniquely important manuscript witnesses of literary works by Donne, Jonson, and others, as well as a wealth of political information. This event will trace the Conway family's progress from Warwickshire gentry to the highest levels at court, paying particular attention to their interest in and acquisition of culture, from books and manuscripts to music and dramatic entertainments.

Programme

1.30-3pm The Conways in Context, Chair: Pauline Croft (Royal Holloway)
Ann Hughes (Keele): Edward, first Viscount Conway's Warwickshire: social and cultural contexts
Barra Boydell (NUI Maynooth): Music and the Conways in Ireland

3.30-5pm Literary circulation, Chair: Henry Woudhuysen (UCL)
Daniel Starza Smith (UCL): John Donne in the Conway Papers
Gabriel Heaton (Sotheby's): Entertaining Edward Conway

5-5.30pm Closing comments, Pauline Croft

Organiser: Daniel Starza Smith, University College London. For more details please contact: ucledsm@ucl.ac.uk, or m.f.ocallaghan@reading.ac.uk.

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Organised by: Dr Sara Barker (Department of History, University of Lancaster); Dr Pollie Bromilow (French Section, SOCLAS, University of Liverpool)

Generously funded by SOCLAS, University of Liverpool, Society for French Studies and Society for the Study of French History

Programme
9.45 Arrival and Coffee
10.15 Introduction and Welcome
10.30 Session 1: Renaissance Anthologies: Diversity and Variation
Sara Barker, University of Warwick: 'Les choses sainctes et serieuses': Printing Poetry in the French Reformation
Pollie Bromilow, University of Liverpool: Reading Scatology in Late Renaissance France: The Case of Etienne Tabourot's Escraignes dijonnoises (1588)
Hervé-Thomas Campangne, Unversity of Maryland: Order, disorder, and Belleforest's 1572 Cinquiesme tome des histoires tragiques
12.00 Keynote Paper: Professor Paul J. Smith, University of Leiden: Tendances anthologiques: l'exemple des fabliers français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
13.00 Lunch at Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool
14.30 Visit of Victoria Gallery and Museum/ Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Sydney Jones Library Special Collections with display of books
15.30 Session 2: Renaissance Anthologies: Tradition and Modernity
James Ambrose, Trinity College, Oxford: Anthology and Authority: Early Modern Morals and Ancient Tragedy
Stefano Marzano and Helene Haug, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium: From 'facing pages' to 'reader's digest': Reading Classics in Renaissance France
Hervé Baudry, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal: Fleurs de santé: la vulgarisation médicale entre tradition et modernité
17.00 Drinks in SOCLAS Senior Common Room

All participants are invited to dinner at the Everyman Bistro following the study day.

To register, contact Dr Pollie Bromilow pollie.bromilow@liverpool.ac.uk by Nov 13th 2009

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Call for Papers
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the retailing and distribution of books and all other printed material, from the inception of the printing press to the present.

Proposals are invited covering any form of retail and distribution, from bookshops, to market stalls and itinerants, and any geographical location or historical period.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 22 January 2010.

For further information and to submit proposals, please contact: Dr Laura Ugolini (L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk)

Workshop web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/books.html
CHORD web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

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Chetham's Library and the University of Manchester are pleased to announce their third one-day interdisciplinary history of the book and material culture conference at Chetham's Library, Manchester, taking place Thursday 21st January 2010.

Call for Papers
We invite 20-minute papers from postgraduate students of any discipline who are interested in book history and material culture. Our aim this year is to encourage the combining of methodologies developed in book history in the last thirty years with those of other currents in twentieth-century cultural theory, literary criticism and the study of community. While all abstracts relating to book history and material culture will be considered, we particularly welcome papers that engage any of the following areas:

• The use book history can make of other twentieth-century cultural and literary theory; what might book history perspectives have to say about the writing and dissemination of these intellectual trends?
• The tension between practices of 'form and content' reading and book history's interest in paratextual apparatuses, editorial processes and distribution.
• The relationship between the texts and materials we study and the communities that produce them; study of the evidence of how communities inscribe themselves into texts as in the study of second hand books, or communal responses to texts as in fan fiction.
• The national or cross-cultural transmission of texts, the function of technology in this transmission and the production of international readerships.

Guest Speakers
We are very pleased to announce that Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia) and Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary, University of London) have agreed to present guest papers at our event. Professor Raymond will be discussing Milton and the pan-European circulation of newsbooks in the seventeenth century, and Professor Rivers will present her current research on the culture of religious publishing in the eighteenth century.

It's free! And so is lunch!

Thanks to the support of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures SAGE Postgraduate Training Programme, there will be no charge for the conference or for the conference lunch.

Abstracts
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to book-history@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 20th November 2009.

To register to attend please contact the same with details of your position/institution.

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Speakers include Sven Dupre, Toon Van Hal, Candice Delisle, Florike Egmond, Philippe Selosse, Benjamin Schmidt, Roger Hart, Matthias Schemmel, Peter Burke, Felicity Henderson, and Harold Cook.

Organisers: Harold Cook (UCL) and Sven Dupré (Ghent University)

For further information, including a complete programme, please see: http://tinyurl.com/yz5ouk6 (PDF)

Registration and inquiries to Miss Sally Bragg (s.bragg@ucl.ac.uk), Programmes Administrator, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

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Supported by Merton College, All Souls College, Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book and The Bibliographical Society

Conference organizers: Giles Bergel (Merton College); Alexandra Franklin (Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library)

In association with Merton College, The Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford is holding a symposium on the early-modern broadside in the age of its digital reproduction. Printed for display purposes (typically on one side of a single sheet), the broadside arguably addressed a wider audience than any other publication of the handpress period. Broadsides were advertisements, religious indulgences, political addresses, civic discourses, teaching aids, ballads and other forms of entertainment. This symposium will explore how the broadside demarcated or connected both public and private worlds and popular and learned cultures. What is recovered of the broadside and its world through digitization, and what remains to be reconstructed? What is its place in the histories of collecting, literacy, popular culture and antiquarianism?

Speakers
Falk Eisermann, (Berlin State Library): Medium of the Masses? Some Observations on Press Runs and Audiences of 15th Century Broadsides
Susanna Berger, (University of Cambridge): Pedagogical Broadsides and the Study of Aristotelian Logic
Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford): The Vending of Books: Sheldonian sales-catalogues 1694 to 1720
Angela McShane (Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art): Cultural Economics in the Broadside Trade: 'Commissioned' and 'Retail' Broadsides
Eric Nebeker, (University of California, Santa Barbara): Musical Broadsides and Their Audiences in the Seventeenth Century
Sara Mori, (Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence): Between censorship and permission: Tuscan broadsides at the beginning of 19th century
E Wyn James (Cardiff University): Illustrating Welsh Broadsides
John Bidwell (Morgan Library and Museum): Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence

Graduate student travel bursaries available, generously funded by The Bibliographical Society. E-mail for information: giles.bergel@merton.ox.ac.uk / alexandra.franklin@bodley.ox.ac.uk

[NB: an optional sandwich lunch will be provided for a cost of £6 per person; please reserve your lunch before 6 November by email to bookcentre@bodley.ox.ac.uk, and pay on the day]

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Convenor: ACE research group (Anglophonie: Communautés, Ecritures), Rennes 2

Scientific committee: Olivier Caïra (Evry), Claire Charlot (Rennes 2), Claude Le Fustec (Rennes 2), Françoise Lejeune (Nantes), Sophie Marret (Paris 8), Claudine Raynaud (Montpellier 3), Delphine Texier (Rennes 2).

Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2009.

Call for Papers
With the development of the modern state, there has been an ongoing tension between the will to control and at the same time allow free speech to develop. In English-speaking countries, the theme of 'Censorship and Discourse' has been a recurrent concern from the 16th century to the present day, as the numerous censored publications and writings against censorship testify.

This conference will focus on three different aspects of censorship and discourse:

1) The nature of censorship and the way in which it reflects the norms and values of the day;
2) The discourse of censors as institutions of censorship;
3) The perception of censorship and the reactions it entails.

The aim is to bring together specialists from different disciplines: from the literary and linguistic disciplines to the human and social sciences. The conference will be organised on a panel basis and will be in English.

Submissions
We welcome submissions from a broad range of disciplines: Literature, Philosophy, Linguistics, History, Law, Political science, Sociology, Anthropology, the Visual Arts, and Economics. Postgraduates are welcome.

Please send an abstract of up to 250 words, together with your particulars (name, institutional address, occupational status, postal and e-mail addresses) to the following e-mail addresses: clairecharlot@wanadoo.fr and delphine.texier@uhb.fr.

Submissions will be examined by the scientific committee and answers given by the end of December.

There will be a registration fee of 50 euros as a contribution towards meals and conference expenses.

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Details of the sixth and final workshop in the AHRC-funded series, planned to shed light on the still under-researched topic of scribal culture in Italy, are given below. These workshops are open to all and we welcome participation by all those interested in early modern Italy and in the history of the book in early modern Europe, and by librarians, curators and palaeographers. There is a small number of postgraduate bursaries to cover all or part of the cost of attendance. There is no charge for attendance but space is limited. To reserve a place or for more information, please contact Filippo de Vivo (f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk) or Brian Richardson (b.f.richardson@leeds.ac.uk). For abstracts of the papers and further information on the project, see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/scribalculture/workshopseries

Workshop details
What does manuscript cataloguing entail and why is it important? What are the challenges facing the themed cataloguing of manuscripts in particular collections? What are the benefits of themed cataloguing to scholarship? How can a catalogue account for subject-matter, author, scribe, and collector? What are the British Library's holdings and how can they best be catalogued? Building on recent interest in manuscript as a means of communication in early modern France, Great Britain and Spain, this workshop is the last in a series events that have been planned to shed light on the still under-researched topic of scribal culture in Italy. We welcome participation by all those interested in cultural and political history in the history of the book, by historians, art historians, curators, archivists and palaeographers.

[To gain access please go to the Information Desk in the British Library Front Hall, from where you will be escorted to the Panizzi Room]

Programme
14.00 British Library, Panizzi Room - Introduction - Chair: Professor Robert Black (Leeds)
14.05 Giliola Barbero (Università Cattolica, Milan): Shared cataloguing as an aid to the study of early modern manuscripts
14.35 Rachel Stockdale (British Library): Catalogue integration at the British Library
15.05 Dr Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck College, London): Why catalogue political manuscripts
15.35 Laura Nuvoloni (Cambridge University Library): The Italian political manuscripts at the British Library; presentation of sample manuscripts
16.00 Discussion

Abstracts of papers are available at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/scribalculture/pastworkshops/cataloguing

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A two-day conference organized by The Scaliger Institute of Leiden University, the Warburg Institute of the University of London & The Huygens Instituut Den Haag

In 2009 the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library commemorates the quatercentenary of the death of the great humanist Josephus Justus Scaliger. On the 21st of January, the actual day of his death, a laudatio was delivered by Professor Anthony Grafton of Princeton University. In spring an exhibition was organized in Leiden University Library. The subject of the exhibition was Scaliger and the Oriental languages and involved the co-operation of a large number of scholars from The Netherlands and abroad.

On 5 and 6 November the Scaliger Institute and the Warburg Institute will organize a two-day conference on The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger. The keynote speaker of the conference is Prof. dr. Anthony Grafton of Princeton University. Several other specialists from The Netherlands and abroad will speak about the relation between Scaliger and Heinsius, Bentley as a reader of Scaliger, Vossius and Scaliger, Scaliger and linguistics and Scaliger and the oriental languages. The conference will also include a lecture open to all public by Dirk van Miert (Warburg Institute and editor of the Correspondence of Scaliger) on The 'French face' of Scaliger; his lieux de mémoire in France.

You are most welcome to attend the symposium and/or the public lecture, but please register in advance by sending an e-mail to scaliger@library.leidenuniv.nl and please indicate whether you will be joining us for the symposium & public lecture or public lecture only.

Scaliger Institute of Leiden University: http://www.library.leiden.edu/faculty/scaliger-institute/

PROGRAMME

Thursday 5 November
10.00: Welcome by Kurt De Belder, University Librarian & Director Leiden University Libraries
10.10: Introduction by Harm Beukers, Scaliger Professor
10.20: Keynote speaker Prof. dr. Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): Aftermaths: Scaliger's Chronology from 1600 to 1627
11.30: Coffee and tea
11.45: Prof. Dr. Karel Davids (VU Amsterdam): Scaliger and Water Management
12.30: Astrid Balsem (Amsterdam University Library): Retrieving Scaliger's printed books
13.15 Lunch break
14.30 Dr. Harm-Jan van Dam (VU Amsterdam): In praise of Scaliger? Daniel Heinsius' poetry on the master
15.15: Dr. Dirk van Miert (Warburg Institute): The Making of Scaliger: Heinsius and his edition of Scaliger's letters
16.00: visit to the Bibliotheca Thysiana (for speakers and guests only)
17.00: drinks
Dinner (for speakers and guests only)

Friday 6 November
10.00: Dr. Kristine Haugen (California Institute of Technology):Hommages and Dommages: Richard Bentley Reads Scaliger
11.00: Dr. Paul Botley (Warburg Institute): Scaliger's Support for Failed Projects: Scriverius' Martial and Woverius' Column
11.45: Coffee and tea
12.00: Dr. Toon van Hal (K.U. Leuven & Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendiat (Universitüt Potsdam): "Quam enim periculosa sit ea via"... Scaliger's contribution to the humanist discussions on linguistic genealogy
12.45: Theodor Dunkelgrün (University of Chicago): The master at work: some observations on how Scaliger used his oriental library
13.30 : Lunch break
15.00: Public lecture - Dr. Dirk van Miert (Warburg Institute): The 'French face' of Scaliger; his lieux de mémoire in France

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Organised by The Centre for the History of the Book and Edinburgh University Library: http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb

9 Oct Jane Dawson (Divinity): The Wode Psalter
23 Oct Heather Pulliam (History of Art): Images of the Reader in The Book of Kells
6 Nov Robin Myers (Worshipful Company of Stationers): Historicising the Stationers' Company
20 Nov Peter Garside (English Literature): Illustrating the Waverley Novels: Scott, Scotland, and the London Print Trade, 1819-36
4 Dec Eyal Poleg (CHB): Memory, Performance, and Change: The Layout of the Psalms 1200-1611

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9 Nov Peter Koch (Peter Koch Printers): Printing in the Shadow of Aldus: The Book as a Work of Art in the 21st Century
8 Feb Peter Parsons (Christ Church, Oxford): Artemidorus: A New Papyrus and an Old Forger
24 Feb (3pm) Visit to the Oxford University Archives. Members wishing to come are asked to inform the Secretary at least 2 weeks in advance.
1 Mar William Poole (University College, Oxford): The Chinaman and the Librarian: The Meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687
3 May Giles Bergel (Merton College, Oxford): From Small Books to Little Magazines: The Reformation of the Chapbook
17 May Daniela Mairhoffer (Bodleian Library): Archbishop Laud's Latin Manuscripts from Mainz
9 Jun (McKenna Room, Christ Church, 3pm) Annual General Meeting - Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford): Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
22 Jul (t.b.a.) Visit to the Getty Library in Wormsley. Introduction to the collection by the Curator. Members wishing to join the party are asked to inform the Secretary of the Society at least 3 weeks in advance.

Members may bring guests to any meeting.

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Wednesdays - 5pm
18 Nov Cristina Dondi: The Venetian Book Trade in the 15th century: material evidence for the economic and social history of the Renaissance
[Further details of programme to follow]

Tea will be served at 4.30pm before the lectures

For further details, please contact the Hon. Secretary, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, The University Library, Cambridge CB3 9DR

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Tuesdays - 6pm
21 Oct Annual General Meeting at the TUC Library, Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, 236-250 Holloway Road, London N7 6PP at 5.30. Chris Coates, Librarian, will introduce the TUC Library collections following the business of the meeting.
17 Nov (Chadwick Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Jeremy Bentham Room) Janet Ing Freeman: 'Poor Ralph': The Fragile Career of a Regency Hack- The curious history of Ralph Rylance (1782-1834): poet, translator, ghostwriter, editor, and proofreader - At the meeting the Society's Gold Medal will be presented to Dr. Lotte Hellinga
15 Dec (Pearson Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Lower Refectory) Roey Sweet, Kate Loveman, Malcolm Noble, and John Hinks: Murders and Marvels: the chapbook project at the University of Leicester
19 Jan (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) Ceri Davies: 'Print bearing fruit for the Welshman': the books of Sir John Prise (c.1502-1555) - On the legacy of the author of the first printed book in Welsh and of Historiae Brytannicae Defensio, one of the longest printed works in Latin by a Welsh humanist
16 Feb (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) John Barnard: Keats and Posterity: Manuscript, Print and Readers - On Keats's canon, his uncertainties, and the interplay between manuscript and print circulation of his poems - The Presidential Address
16 Mar (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters) Simon Horobin: Chaucer's Scribe? - This lecture assesses the implications of the identification of the professional scrivener Adam Pinkhurst as 'Chaucer's scribe' for our understanding of Chaucer's texts, their copying and circulation
20 Apr (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in Lower Refectory) Rupert Ridgewell: Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung : locating Artaria in Mozart's Vienna - On the inter-relationship of the music, art, book and map trades in late eighteenth-century Vienna, with reference to the ledgers of the Artaria publishing house - Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
18 May (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Haldane Room) Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux: Grolier, Mahieu, Laubespine. The flowering and decline of inventiveness in French decorated bookbinding, 1540-1570 - The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture
The Summer Visit - Details will be announced in The Library for March 2009.

Meetings will be held in lecture theatres at University College, Gower Street, London, WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m. Exact lecture theatres are given in the calendar above.

Tea will be served at 5.15 p.m. in one of several rooms in the main building (Wilkins) of University College; please see lecture dates for location. Members are welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.

The AGM will take place at the Trades Union Congress Library Collections, Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, 236-250 Holloway Road, London N7 6PP, on 21 October at 5.30. This will not be preceded by tea, but refreshments will be served after the meeting.

For further details, please contact the Hon. Secretary, Dr. Margaret Ford, The Bibliographical Society, c/o Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Rm. 304, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (Tel. 020-7862-8679; fax: 020-7862-8720) e-mail: Secretary@BibSoc.org.uk or Admin@BibSoc.org.uk

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#bibsoc Ian Gadd 2009-10-12 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#panizzi Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
8, 9, and 14 Dec - 6.15pm

Professor Anthony Grafton
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe

This year's series of Panizzi lectures will explore the ways in which texts were prepared for publication in Renaissance Europe. Professor Anthony Grafton will recreate the practices of professional correctors--poor devils of literature whose work extended far beyond the specific task of proof correction--and the printers and authors who worked with them. Both great houses such as that of Christopher Plantin and much smaller ones will come in for examination, but the emphasis will be on the former.

To celebrate this year's Panizzi lecture series a reception will be held after the final lecture.

Tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (telephone 01937 546 546)

8 Dec The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: Practice Makes Imperfect - Professor Grafton launches this year's series with a description of the world and work of the corrector: it will trace the origins of some of their practices to the world of manuscript book production, others to the new needs of print
9 Dec The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View from Inside The Shop - Continuing this year's Panizzi lectures, this event will explore some of the rich and revealing documents that enable us to watch correctors at work. We will pay special attention to surviving manuscripts and printed books that correctors used, and to what the traces they left behind can tell us about publication and authorship in Renaissance Europe.
14 Dec The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View from the Author's Study - Join us for the final lecture in this year's Panizzi series. From the Renaissance to the present, authors have fumed and cursed as they saw what happened to their work in the printing house, and have done their best to take an active part in the process of editing, design and production. We will examine some of the varieties of correction that Renaissance authors and scholars encountered, and some of their manifold responses.

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Thursdays - 5.45pm
8 Oct Marc Lambert, Scottish Book Trust: Why Read?
10 Nov (7 p.m.) Dr Peter Arnott: Echoes of Origin: reflections on the unfinished legacy of Darwin's masterpiece - Jointly with NLS - Annual John Murray Archive Lecture
3 Dec Visit to the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, followed by drinks reception - Dr Donald Smith: Writing Our Selves
21 Jan Dr Murray Simpson: On the Insidious Charms of Collecting Odd Volumes
18 Feb Ronald Black: Alexander MacDonald's Ais-Eiridh, 1751
11 Mar Prof. Ian Campbell: The Grassic Gibbon revival - Annual Business Meeting - Allan Ramsay Dinner, dedicated to Robert Fergusson (Contact the secretary by 18 February 2010)
22 Apr Prof. Roland Paxton: Wheelwright of the Heavens: James Ferguson FRS (1710-1778)
8 May (2 p.m.) Annual Visit. Edinburgh University Library Special Collections, George Square, Edinburgh (Contact the Secretary by 22 April 2010)

Tea is served from 5:15 p.m. All are welcome.

The Edinburgh Bibliographical, Society, founded 1890, promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish, and prints bibliographical work in its Transactions and as Occasional Publications.

Society website: http://mcs.qmuc.ac.uk/EBS/

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#edbibsoc Ian Gadd 2009-10-12 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#hislibraries Room ST 275 (Stewart House), Institute of English Studies, University of London, London
Tuesdays - 5.30pm

A series of research seminars, which are freely open for anyone to attend, has been organized at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Seminar convenors: Giles Mandelbrote (Early Printed Collections, The British Library, London); Dr. Keith A. Manley (Institute of Historical Research, University of London); Professor Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies); Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary); Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University College).

Meetings will take place monthly during term-time on Tuesdays at 5.30 p.m., in Room ST 275 at Stewart House, unless otherwise stated. Stewart House is located at the Russell Square entrance to Senate House. The March and June meetings will take place in Room NG 15, Senate House North Block.

The seminars are jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Library & Information History Group.

Information concerning the Institute of English Studies may be found on its website, or email ies@sas.ac.uk.

6 Oct Dr. Maureen Bell (University of Birmingham): Titus Wheatcroft: an eighteenth-century reader and his books In 1723 Titus Wheatcroft (1679-1762), parish clerk and schoolmaster in Ashover, Derbyshire, began to make a catalogue of his books. His collection of nearly 400 items, in both manuscript and print, provides valuable evidence of a literate but relatively poor rural reader's access to books. His four surviving manuscript volumes also give an insight into how he used some of the books he owned, and offer evidence of his engagement with printed texts beyond those listed in his catalogue.
3 Nov Prof. Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies): Gutting Leviathan: the fall of the great circulating libraries in Britain What were the economics that powered the great circulating libraries of the later nineteenth century? How important was the three-decker novel in this process? What caused the collapse of the three-decker novel in 1894, and how were the publishers involved? Why did many of the largest circulating libraries survive 1894 and flourish for another generation, or even two? And what finally beached these monsters?
1 Dec Dr. Keith A. Manley (Institute of Historical Research): Infidel books and subscription libraries: government censorship in Europe during the Napoleonic period Many governments tried to prevent libraries from acquiring politically inflammatory and heretical literature. In Germany secret societies of freemasons infiltrated libraries to promote their own views of Enlightenment and world domination, while Hanover feared for the morals of its children if they were allowed access to circulating libraries. Germany and Austria banned subscription libraries, fearing their malignant influence. In France, officials kept libraries under close surveillance. In comparison, British libraries escaped lightly from tight supervision, though in Ulster several were ransacked by yeomanry.

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#hislibraries Ian Gadd 2009-10-05 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#cranston09 26 October 2009 - 7.30pm for 8pm
St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, Reigate, Surrey

In aid of the funds of the Cranston Library

Keith Manley: They didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! Scottish Parochial Libraries in Cranston's time
Penelope Horsfall: Jacob Tonson 1656-1736 - Original Trustee, Secretary of the Kit Cat Club, & much more besides

Refreshments will be served in the interval and the Library will be open during the evening

The Cranston Library, founded in 1701 by the Revd Andrew Cranston, is situated in a small chamber above the Vestry in St Mary's, the Parish Church of Reigate. It was the first Public Lending Library in England and contains works of literature, history, geography, mathematics and classics as well as theology.

The Library is an independent charity, managed by a Board of nine Trustees who endeavour to maintain it as an early 18th century library. Many of the books have been there since its foundation in 1701 and funds are always needed for conservation of the books, the greater part of which are leather bound. Valuable practical assistance is given by Surrey County Council Libraries.

Keith Manley: Trustee of the Library, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Penelope Horsfall: Trustee of the Library, Sociologist, and Honorary Alderman of the Borough of Reigate and Banstead

Further information from:

Hilary Ely
Libraries Virtual Services Manager
Surrey County Council
Mid Area Office, Leatherhead KT22 7SY.
Tel. 020 8541 7060 (direct) 079 68 832 419 (mobile)
e-mail: h.ely@surreycc.gov.uk

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#cranston09 Ian Gadd 2009-09-28 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#masterclass Seminar Room, New Bodleian Library, Oxford
Mondays - 2.15pm

Admission to the library is by Oxford University Card or, if you need a visitor pass, please e-mail: bookcentre@bodley.ox.ac.uk, at least one day before the class.

19 Oct Anthony Thwaite: Philip Larkin
26 Oct Katherine Duncan-Jones: Shakespeare
2 Nov Michael Suarez: Gerard Manley Hopkins
9 Nov Pamela Clemit: William Godwin

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#masterclass Ian Gadd 2008-08-18 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#koch 6 November 2009 - 4pm
Seminar Room, New Bodleian Library, Oxford

Peter Koch (CODEX Foundation, Berkeley, California)
The book as a work of art

Admission to the library is by Oxford University Card or, if you need a visitor pass, please e-mail: bookcentre@bodley.ox.ac.uk, at least one day before the class.

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#koch Ian Gadd 2009-09-28 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#bodfriends Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Wednesdays - 1pm
All welcome. To reserve wine & sandwiches, tel: 01865 277234 or email: fob@bodley.ox.ac.uk
21 Oct Robert Bruce: An ark for the nation: the Bodleian in the Second World War
4 Nov Justin Reay: 'An uninterrupted excess of satisfaction': Samuel Pepys' naval papers in the Bodleian collections

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#bodfriends Ian Gadd 2009-09-28 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#sleuthshakes 9 November 2009 - 6pm
The British Library, Conference Centre, Meeting Room 2, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

The early quartos and folios of Shakespeare's works - as well as every other book and manuscript from the period - were printed on handmade laid paper, each sheet of which bears in its surface visible traces of the manufacturing process. Using Hailey's 'mugshot-and-fingerprint method' to identify the products of particular pairs of papermoulds, the book detective can ferret out otherwise intractable details about the production of early modern books and manuscripts.

One of the most valuable uses of the comparative study of watermarks is in supplying dates for some of the many 16th and 17th century books issued without titlepage dates. Dr Hailey will explain his methodology, using as examples his definitive datings of the 4th quartos of Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet, and the first edition of Marlowe's Massacre at Paris. He will also discuss what a forensic study of the paper stocks of the First Folio might tell us about its production.

The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.

Attendance is free, but please register your name with Teresa Harrington at the British Library, email: teresa.harrington@bl.uk

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#sleuthshakes Ian Gadd 2009-11-09 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#redsys 29 September 2009
British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Programme
10:00 Registration in the British Library Conference Centre foyer

10:30 Introduction to the event by Prof Bob Owens (The Open University)
Demonstration of The Reading Experience Database, with the formal launch of version 3.0 by Dr Rosalind Crone (The Open University), Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling) and Dr Shafquat Towheed (The Open University)

11:30
Discussion Panel 1- 'Using The Reading Experience Database' Dr Mary Hammond (University of Southampton), 'Using The Reading Experience Database for teaching'
Dr Stephen Colclough (University of Bangor), 'using The Reading Experience Database for research'
Prof Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire), 'using The Reading Experience Database and cross-media research'

13:00 Lunch in the British Library conference centre foyer (provided)

14:00 Keynote and discussion: 'The Reading Experience Database and the future' Prof Simon Eliot (IES, University of London)

15.00 Discussion Panel 2 - 'The Reading Experience Database: future directions and collaborations'
Dr Patrick Buckridge (Griffith University, Australia), 'Making the Australian Reading Experience Database'
Dr Sydney Shep (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand), 'The methodology of transnational collaborative projects'
Closing remarks, by Prof Bob Owens and Prof Simon Eliot

16.00-17.00 Drinks reception in the British Library conference centre foyer (provided)

The event is free to attend, but if you wish to come, please send a confirmation RSVP to Shafquat Towheed (s.s.towheed@open.ac.uk) by 18 September 2009 to allow us to organise adequate catering.

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#redsys Ian Gadd 2009-09-14 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#perilsptcult 10 - 12 September 2010
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Over the past twenty years the study of print culture has become prominent in the disciplines of history, literary studies and languages. The study of print culture has many advantages, but there is a growing sense among advanced practitioners that scholars need to fine-tune or calibrate their understanding of this burgeoning field of enquiry.

Papers presented at this conference will encourage scholars to think more systematically about the conceptual, methodological and technological problems associated with the study of print culture. They will encompass a wide range of chronological periods, geographical locations and genres of print.

For more details of the themes of the conference go to: http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/news/initiative-funding/print-culture.php

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#perilsptcult Ian Gadd 2009-09-07 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#readingrebel 21 October 2009 - 14.00-17.30
Craighouse Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, EH10 5LG

The Scottish Centre for the Book - Edinburgh Napier University

Speakers include: Eleanor Bell, Linda Gunn, Alistair McCleery plus a screening of 'John Calder: A Life in Publishing'

Please RSVP to f.hartree@napier.ac.uk as places are limited. There is no charge for this event.

This is the first in a series of seminars on the Scottish 60s. Others planned include: Literary Texts of the Scottish 60s (Strathclyde, February 2010), Social and Cultural Change in the Scottish 60s (Dundee, Spring 2010), and Art and Artists of the Scottish 60s (St Andrews, Spring 2010)

Please contact l.gunn@napier.ac.uk for further details.

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]]> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#readingrebel Ian Gadd 2009-09-07 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/events.html#7thbook 16 - 18 October 2009
University of Edinburgh

Plenary speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the areas of publishing, editing, librarianship, printing, authoring and information technologies, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and practitioners.

This is a conference for any participant in the world of books - authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers. All are encouraged to register and attend this significant and timely conference. Accommodation options are also available.

Conference website: http://booksandpublishing.com/conference-2009/

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