2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

Distinguished speakers will explore the long history of Bible preservation, copying, study, and translation.

The 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 ...

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.

Online 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 ...

A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.

A CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.

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The 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 ...

Baskerville'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...

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…

England’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...

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Andrew 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...

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YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

AGORHA: connecting book and art history The online portal AGORHA, developed by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, comprises a suite of thematic databases bringing together digitised documents,...

A history of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973

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The Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700) If, like me, you spend a lot of time worrying about who printed what in later seventeenth-century England, then the Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT), compi...

This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

LIPS Manuscript

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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain In the spirit of the renewed year, one renewed Bodleian resource is sure to delight those interested in medieval libraries: the newly re-released Medieval Libraries...