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warburg.sas.ac.ukBook launch - Alexander Nowell's Rough Book: The Life and Library of a Reformation Humanist

Next month sees the launch of our latest book, 'Alexander Nowell's Rough Book: The Life and Library of a Reformation Humanist' by Micha Lazarus. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dr Ellie Hardy

@ellie-hardy.bsky.social

Book history people! Please apply to come and work with @ies-sas.bsky.social! Tell your friends to apply! We are a lovely team and this is an exciting opportunity to join us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

jobs.london.ac.ukLecturer in Book History:London Senate House - Hybrid

sal.org.ukLines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of LondonFrom its 18th-century origins to the present day, the Society of Antiquaries has been influential in recording, interpreting, and preserving the material past through graphic arts both at home and abr...

Our friends @antiquaries.bsky.social are hosting their annual Collections and Research Day on 6 November. More below.

The Society of Antiquaries of London@antiquaries.bsky.social

Join us 6 Nov for a conference inspired by our prints & drawings collection, ft Anne Desmet RA as keynote speaker. In-person attendees have the chance to visit the library of Royal Academy or @linneansociety.bsky.social to see a curated displays of prints & drawings. www.sal.org.uk/events/lines...

youtube.comCaxton 550 - YouTube2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

Two more videos, from our friends at @librarycongress.bsky.social and Princeton University Library, have been included to our Caxton550 playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Please do take a look!

wallacecollection.orgLibrary and Archive Tour: Women of the Wallace CollectionJoin us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked us to share details of this forthcoming tour: www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

youtube.comCaxton 550 - YouTube2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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youtube.comCaxton 550 - YouTube2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

youtube.comCaxton 550 - YouTube2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

... in their collections, with more videos being released throughout the rest of the anniversary year. Please visit the Society’s YouTube channel to watch the various videos in the series: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Laura Cleaver

@laurajcleaver.bsky.social

A reminder that you get this free four times a year if you join @bibsoc.bsky.social - student membership is just £30. #BookHistory #NewAcademicYear

Laura Cleaver@laurajcleaver.bsky.social

The latest issue of The Library looks great. #BookHistory.

wallacecollection.orgLibrary and Archive Tour: Hidden TreasuresJoin us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked us to share details of the following tour which is coming up: www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

eventbrite.co.ukTranslating the Bible: A Study AfternoonDistinguished speakers will explore the long history of Bible preservation, copying, study, and translation.

22 Sept

Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share the following: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

bibsoc.org.ukNew e-Publication : John Vine Hall’s business letter book 1805–1814 - Bibliographical SocietyThe Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce its latest e-publication : Richard J. Goulden, A Worcester bookseller and wine merchant, John Vine Hall’s business letter book, 1805–1814. John Vine ...

8 Sept

The Society is pleased to announce its latest e-publication : Richard J. Goulden, 'A Worcester bookseller and wine merchant, John Vine Hall’s business letter book, 1805–1814'. bibsoc.org.uk/new-e-public...

wallacecollection.orgLibrary and Archive Tour: Disaster, Fire, Siege and WarJoin us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

7 Sept

Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked to share thr following: www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

bibsoc.org.ukCouncil’s Choice for September 2026 - Bibliographical SocietyOnline Courses on the History of the Book Keio University and the British Library have jointly created two online courses exploring how books foster cross-cultural exchange. The first, the three-week ...

2 Sept

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Satoko Tokunaga, the Society’s Hon. Secretary for Japan, highlights two online courses exploring how books foster cross-cultural exchange: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

eventbrite.co.ukWomen and Their Books in Early Modern England and ScotlandA study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.

25 Aug

Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share this: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...

sal.org.ukCall for Papers - Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts & the Afterlives of the Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of LondonA CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.

Our friends @antiquaries.bsky.social have asked us to share the follow CFP: Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past Friday 6 November 2026 at Burlington House, Piccadilly and online CfP deadline: 2 September 2026

We welcome contributions from early career researchers and creative practitioners that engage with graphic media broadly defined, including (but not limited to) prints, drawings, book illustration, maps, architectural drawings, ephemera, comics, graphic novels, and digital graphic art.

Please contact Dr Anouska Lester and Dr Chiara Betti at events@sal.org.uk with any queries. www.sal.org.uk/2026/07/crd-...

@laurajcleaver.bsky.social

The SoA's annual Collections and Research Day presents the work of early career researchers and collections professionals. This year the event is inspired by our extensive Prints and Drawings collection.

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Laura Cleaver

My book exists! Thanks to everyone @archumanities.bsky.social for their patience and support.

youtube.comBibliographical Society - Graham Pollard revisitedYouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

Andrew Honey’s recent lecture, 'Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library', is now available on the Society’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJTT...

Andrew writes: ‘It is sixty-five years since Graham Pollard published his pioneering article, ‘The construction of English twelfth-century bindings’ in the 1962 issue of The Library...

Drawing on observations made in the course of the Bodleian Library’s current project to catalogue the bindings of English manuscripts dated between 1066 to 1250, I will revisit Pollard’s subject, showing some of the wealth of new information still to be discovered ...’

bibsoc.org.ukCouncil’s Choice for August 2026 - Bibliographical SocietyThe Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library One of the jewels in the crown of Cambridge University Library is the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection. It is the world’s largest ...

3 Aug

For this month’s Council’s Choice, our Past President Richard Linenthal highlights the Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts ...

3 Aug

... comprising the massive contents of the storeroom for discarded books and other writings of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

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Dr Liam Sims

@liamsims.bsky.social

2 July

Off to visit Exeter Cathedral tomorrow with members of @bibsoc.bsky.social, so it was fun to happen upon the cathedral’s eighteenth-century bookplate this lunchtime, depicting St Peter. In a copy of Hippocrates printed at Venice in 1538 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Keynes.U.3.30.

bibsoc.org.ukCouncil’s Choice for July 2026 - Bibliographical SocietyBaskerville's punches Cambridge University Library’s historical printing room holds a rich collection of typographical artefacts, some of which – including over 3000 original punches used to produce J...

1 July

For this month’s latest Council’s Choice, our Hononary Secretary Liam Sims highlights Baskerville’s punches on Cambridge’s Digital Library.

1 July

There are thousands of high-quality images of the punches, all freely usable, following study at the University’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and imaging at the University Library: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

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Katie Birkwood

@girlinthe.bsky.social

@bibsoc.bsky.social Might you be able to give either or both of these posts a push? Volvelle-tastic event at the RCP next week. bsky.app/profile/rcpm... bsky.app/profile/girl...

RCP museum@rcpmuseum.bsky.social

We will soon be hosting our summer lectures on Tuesday 23 June - join us to discover the fascinating history of interactive printmaking with two expert speakers Suzanne Karr Schmidt & Katie Birkwood, & create your own interactive volvelle. history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #BodyOfKnowledge

Our friends at the Ligatus Summer School would like us to share that this year's Summer School is taking place in Rome, from 21 September to 2 October, hosted by the Biblioteca Alessandrina in La Sapienza University.

Full details are available at: www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/

Bookings can be made for all or any of the following courses: Week 1 (21 - 25 September): European Bookbinding 1450-1830 Week 2a (28 – 30 September): Linked Data for bookbinding description Week 2b (30 September – 2 October): Eastern Mediterranean Bookbinding Structures

In addition to seeing books from the Biblioteca Alessandrina, the first week will include visits to some of the most famous libraries in the city, including the Casanatense, the Vallicelliana, the Angelica, the Archivio di Stato and the Venerable English College.

unesco.org.ukFive outstanding collections join the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register | UNESCO in the UKFive remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical…

10 June

Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical, cultural and social significance: unesco.org.uk/news/five-ou...

bibsoc.org.ukCouncil’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical SocietyEngland’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...

9 June

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.

9 June

While a database of medieval people drawn from original sources is always valuable, the particular interest for book historians is the helpful addition of numerous advanced search fields, that enable you to search by occupation, social status, place of origin etc.

Liverpool University Press

9 June

The presence of drop-down choices within this make it possible to highlight with great ease those who were described as printers, bookbinders, limners, parchmeners, scribes, scriveners, and host of other trades. bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

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25 May

Most read article | The Library 'The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books' @tamarajatkin.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk ➡️ Read the article online: bit.ly/Library-Atkin @ies-sas.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @davidshaw41.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social

youtube.comBibliographical Society - Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing pressYouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

19 May

Matthew Payne’s lecture, ‘Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press’, is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmU... It examines the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London’s first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s.

lbt.bibsoc.org.ukLondon Book Trades

Following the recent successful launch of the London Book Trades wiki (LBT: lbt.bibsoc.org.uk), the Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce its latest electronic venture. Our goal is to promote the use of MediaWiki software as a suitable vehicle for bibliographical databases.

The Society would like to hear from researchers who are using MediaWiki for bibliographical databases and are looking for a suitable host for their finished product.

We also plan to offer MediaWiki facilities to recipients of the Society’s fellowships and bursaries who would be interested in publishing their results using MediaWiki. For more information, please contact the Society’s Honorary Editor of Electronic Publications (editor-electronic@bibsoc.org.uk).

lbt.bibsoc.org.ukLondon Book Trades

bibsoc.org.ukBibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society

The London Book Trades database is now joined by two other wikis running on the wiki farm: a database of over 200 editions of the Satires of the Roman poet Juvenal printed before 1601; and a database of over 2,000 British Library books printed in France between 1501 and 1520.

bibsoc.org.ukBibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society

You can read more about the three wikis and this new development at bibsoc.org.uk/bibsocs-wikis/. The three BibSoc wikis are joined by David Pearson’s Book Owners Online (BOO) which was part-funded by the Society but is hosted by University College London. BOO was developed using Semantic MediaWiki

lbt.bibsoc.org.ukLondon Book Trades

bibsoc.org.ukBibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society

We have created a ‘wiki farm’ on our web server which enables us to host multiple independent wikis using MediaWiki or Semantic MediaWiki software.

15 May

Looking forward to welcoming members old and new at the Firsts London book fair. We're here today from 11, and all weekend. Do come and say hello.

bibsoc.org.ukHomee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture - Bibliographical SocietyAndrew Honey, Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library It is sixty-five years since Graham Pollard published his pione...

14 May

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 19 May 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom. Andrew Honey, Book Conservator (Research & Training) at the Bodleian Library will deliver the Homee & Phiroze Randeria Lecture.

14 May

His title is ‘Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library’, and he will discuss observations made in the course of the Bodleian Library’s current project to catalogue the bindings of English manuscripts ...