Past Events

2009-10

Monday, 9 November 2009, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Peter Koch (Peter Koch Printers)
Printing in the Shadow of Aldus: The Book as a Work of Art in the 21st Century

Monday, 8 February 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Peter Parsons (Christ Church, Oxford)
Artemidorus: A New Papyrus and an Old Forger

Visit
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 3.00 pm
Visit to the Oxford University Archives

Monday, 1 March 2010, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
William Poole (University College, Oxford)
The Chinaman and the Librarian: The Meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687

Monday, 3 May 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Giles Bergel (Merton College, Oxford)
From Small Books to Little Magazines: The Reformation of the Chapbook

Monday, 17 May 2010, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Daniela Mairhoffer (Bodleian Library)
Archbishop Laud's Latin Manuscripts from Mainz

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, McKenna Room, Christ Church at 3.00 pm
Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford)
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Visit
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Visit to the Getty Library in Wormsley. Introduction to the collection by the Curator.

2008-9

Monday, 20 October 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Peter Kidd (formerly Curator of Illuminated MSS at the British Library)
The Acciaiuoli Hours: Images, Texts, Provenance, and Codicology of a Dismembered 14th-Century Horae

Monday, 1 December 2008, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University)
The Bookman in the Great War and After

Monday, 26 January 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
James Clark (University of Bristol)
Monastic Books in Medieval England

Visit
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 at 3.00 pm
Visit to the Oxford University Press Archives.

Monday, 23 February 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University)
'Leaving the Printer to his Liberty': Printing and Publishing Jonathan Swift's Political Tracts, 1711-14

Monday, 2 March 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford)
The Play and its Manuscript Skeleton: Plots, Plots and Plots

Monday, 4 May 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Dirk Obbink (Christ Church, Oxford)
Imaging Derveni: The Oldest Greek Manuscript

Monday, 18 May 2009, Taylor Institution at 5.15 pm
Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
Isabella d'Este and the Social Life of Texts in Renaissance Italy

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, McKenna Room, Christ Church, at 3.00 pm
Michael Suarez (Campion Hall, Oxford)
Fleshing those Bones: Finding Thew and Sinew in a Sociology of Texts

Visit
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 t.b.a.
Visit to the Wellcome Library in London. Introduction to the collection by the Curator, Julianne Simpson. Tour will also include a visit to the new British Library Centre for Conservation. Members wishing to join the party are asked to inform the Secretary of the Society at least 3 weeks in advance.

2007-2008

Monday 22 October 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Nikolas Sarris
Seeing through the Cover : Decorated Bookbindings at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt

Monday 12 November 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
William Sherman
The Beginning of the End : Terminal Paratext after the Invention of Printing

Monday 21 January 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Nigel Wilson
A Treasure-Trove of Lost Texts : the Archimedes Palimpsest?

Monday 11 February 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Sally Shuttleworth
Monkeys and Babies in the Victorian Periodical

Visit
Tuesday 11 March 2008, at 3.00 p.m
Visit to the Rare Books Section and The John Johnson Digital Project (Bodleian Library).

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 23 April 2008, in the Friend Room, The Lee Building, Christ Church, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: William Bell
Reading between the Lines: Literature on the Western Front 1914-18
Tea will be served in Christ Church after the meeting.

Monday 19 May 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
James Willoughby
The Libraries of Medieval Colleges beyond the Universities

Monday 16 June 2008, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Claire Bolton
Fifteenth-century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm

Visit
Tuesday 29 July 2008
Visit to the Royal Library and Print Room at Windsor.

2006-2007

Monday 13th November 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Julian Harrison (British Library)
Sir Robert Cotton's library revisited.

Monday 22nd January 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Matthew Nicholls (Queen's College, Oxford)
Public Libraries in the Roman Empire

Visit
Tuesday 13th February 2007, at 3.00 p.m
Visit to the Conservation Studio of the Oxford Conservation Consortium.

Monday 5th March 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Peter McDonald (St Hugh's, Oxford)
Apartheid and the Cultural Cold War: Periodicals and the Republic of English Letters in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s

Monday 19th March 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Paul Foote (Queen's College, Oxford)
English Books and the Russian Censorship in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 25th April 2007, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor James Raven (University of Essex)
Judging the Law: Legal Decisions and the Book Trade in Britain 1450–1850

Monday 14th May 2007, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Clive Griffin (Trinity College, Oxford)
Archival Sources for the Lives of Printing Workers in the 16th Century: the Case of Spain

Wednesday 13th June 2007, McKenna Room, Christ Church, at 5.15 p.m
Seminar on new developments in paper and paper conservation

Visit
Tuesday 17th July 2007
Visit to Winchester Cathedral and Library. The tour include the Morley Library and the Triforium Gallery, with an introduction to the collections by the Curator, John Hardacre.

2005-2006

Thursday 27th October 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Stephen Massill
Immigrants, refugees and exiles: foreign librarians in Britain, 1500-1950

Thursday 26th January 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Penelope Bulloch
Ovid's French heroines: pictures of women writing in a 15th-century manuscript from the French court

Thursday 2nd March 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Francesca Galligan
The library of Samuel Harsnett: a preliminary report

Thursday 9th March 2006, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Jason McElligott
Secret and seditious: an underground network of Royalist printers and publishers in Civil War London

Visit
Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Visit to the Imaging Studio of the Oxford University Library Services with opportunity to observe digital image capture.

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 19th April 2006, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Marcus Walsh
Editing Swift's Tale of the Tub

Thursday 18th May 2006, Merton College, at 5.15 p.m
Round Table Discussion
A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Visit
Friday 14th July 2006
Visit to Tyntesfield, Victorian country house and library. Tour and introduction to the collections by Mr Mark Purcell and other staff of the National Trust.

2004-2005

Thursday 14th October 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Ian Christie-Miller
Paper Imaging as a Bibliographical Research Tool

Thursday 2nd December 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Mr Andrew Honey
The condition survey of the manuscripts in the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai

Thursday 27th January 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Mark Purcell
Surveying the National Trust's Libraries: or, Five Years Around the Houses

Library Visit
Tuesday 15th March 2005 at 3.00pm
Visit to the library of the Oxford Union as guests of the Librarian-in-charge, Ms Su Lockley. 

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 27th April 2005, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Thomas Earle
Portuguese Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean Oxford: Evidence from the Bodleian and College Libraries

Thursday 5th May 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Anne Goldgar
Lies, the Press, and the Republic of Letters: The Saurin Affair

Thursday 26th May 2005, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Valerie Holman
Print for Victory: Publishing in World War II

Visit
Monday 18th July 2005, at 2.00pm
Visit to St Bride Printing Library (Fleet Street, London). Tour and introduction to the collections by Librarian, Mr Nigel Roche.

2003-2004

Thursday 30th October 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Cristina Dondi
The School of San Girolamo, Nicolaus Jenson, and Venetian Books of Hours

Thursday 20th November 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Cristina Neagu
Changes in the iconographical canon: 15th and 16th century Italian Books of Hours in the Bodleian Library

Thursday 22nd January 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Philip Waller
Novelists and the reading public, 1880-1914

Thursday 12th February 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Brancaleone
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property

Library Visit
Thursday 25th March 2004 at 2.30pm
Visit to Merton College as guests of the Fellow Librarian, Dr Julia Walworth and Archivist, Mr Julian Reid.

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 21st April 2004, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor John Barnard
"Sleeping Stationers": John Norton's Bible Dealing 1610-1612

Thursday 20th May 2004, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Robin Darwall-Smith
Mr Michael Riordan
Archives for administrators or archives for antiquarians? Early archive catalogues from four Oxford Colleges

Visit
Monday 19th July 2004, afternoon
Visit to Hughenden Manor, home of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Tour and introduction to the collections by Mr Mark Purcell and other staff of the National Trust.

2002-2003

Thursday 24th October 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mrs Mary Clapinson and Mr David Vaisey
The Bodleian and its librarians

Thursday 21st November 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Andrew Nash
"The Dead should be protected from their own carelessness": collected editions of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894-1924

Thursday 23rd January 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr John Randle
The Whittington Press and Oxford

Thursday 27th February 2003, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Rundle
The wanderings of manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester

Library Visit
Thursday 3rd April 2003
Visit to St John's College as guests of the Fellow Librarian, Dr Peter Hacker.

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 30th April 2003, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Dr Kristian Jensen
Importing Humanism: Marginal Notes in Leipzig Books

Special event
Thursday 12th June 2003, Magdalen College Auditorium, at 5.15 p.m
Dr David Skinner
The Arundel Choirbook
Talk with live musical illustration, followed by a reception to mark the publication of The Arundel Choirbook by the Roxburghe Club

Visit
Tuesday 15th July 2003
Visit to Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading.

2001-2002

Thursday 25th October 2001, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Robert McNamee
Electronic Enlightenment: digitizing the Republic of Letters

Thursday 29th November 2001, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 pm
Dr Nicholas Pickwoad
Forgotten books in a forgotten library: some interesting and unusual bookbindings in the Biblioteca Communale of Foligno

Thursday 17th January 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Linda Whiteley
The 'literary genre' of French eighteenth-century sale catalogues

Thursday 7th February 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Dr Stephen Roe
The newly-rediscovered Autograph Manuscripts of Johann Christian Bach's Church Music at the Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg

Thursday 7th March 2002, Taylor Institution, at 5.15 p.m
Mr Reg Carr
The Mandrake Press, 1929-30: an illustrated account of a small private press

Library Visit
Thursday 21st March 2002 (2.30pm)
Visit to Trinity College as guests of the Fellow Librarian, Dr Dinah Birch.

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 24th April 2002, in the Cecil Jackson Room, The Sheldonian Theatre, at 3.00 p.m
Speaker: Professor Rodney Thomson
The books of the twelfth-century Renaissance

Library Visit
Wednesday 10th July 2002
Visit to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge as guests of the Librarian, Dr Christopher De Hamel.