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The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked us to share details of this forthcoming tour: www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...
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Library and Archive Tour: Women of the Wallace Collection
Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
... 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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Caxton 550 - YouTube
2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Caxton 550 - YouTube
2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A reminder that you get this free four times a year if you join @bibsoc.bsky.social - student membership is just £30. #BookHistory #NewAcademicYear
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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...
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Library and Archive Tour: Hidden Treasures
Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share the following: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...
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Translating the Bible: A Study Afternoon
Distinguished speakers will explore the long history of Bible preservation, copying, study, and translation.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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...
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New e-Publication : John Vine Hall’s business letter book 1805–1814 - Bibliographical Society
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 ...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our friends at the Wallace Collection have asked to share thr following: www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...
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Library and Archive Tour: Disaster, Fire, Siege and War
Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Wallace Collection Library and Archives.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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...
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Council’s Choice for September 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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 ...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share this: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...
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Women and Their Books in Early Modern England and Scotland
A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please contact Dr Anouska Lester and Dr Chiara Betti at events@sal.org.uk with any queries. www.sal.org.uk/2026/07/crd-...
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Call for Papers - Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts & the Afterlives of the Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of London
A CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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.
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Call for Papers - Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts & the Afterlives of the Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of London
A CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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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Call for Papers - Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts & the Afterlives of the Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of London
A CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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
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Call for Papers - Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts & the Afterlives of the Material Past - Society of Antiquaries of London
A CfP for 'Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of the Material Past'.
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My book exists! Thanks to everyone @archumanities.bsky.social for their patience and support.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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 ...’
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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...
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Bibliographical Society - Graham Pollard revisited
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
... 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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Council’s Choice for August 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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 ...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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 ...
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Council’s Choice for August 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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 ...
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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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Council’s Choice for July 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For this month’s latest Council’s Choice, our Hononary Secretary Liam Sims highlights Baskerville’s punches on Cambridge’s Digital Library.
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Council’s Choice for July 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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...
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@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...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Full details are available at: www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/
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Home | Ligatus Summer School
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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.
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Home | Ligatus Summer School
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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.
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Home | Ligatus Summer School
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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...
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Five outstanding collections join the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register | UNESCO in the UK
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…
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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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Council’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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.
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Council’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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.
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Council’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical Society
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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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
The graphic features the pale blue cover of The Library journal, on a blue banner at the bottom which contains the LUP logo and the Bibliographical society logo next to it. The background is a dark-panelled wooden library shelf with a ladder, featuring text overlaid in white which reads: 'The journal of The Bibliographical Society; the pre-eminent scholarly journal for the study of bibliography and of the role of the book in history.'
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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.
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Bibliographical Society - Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press
YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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).
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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
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BibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.
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BibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We have created a ‘wiki farm’ on our web server which enables us to host multiple independent wikis using MediaWiki or Semantic MediaWiki software.
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BibSoc’s Wikis - Bibliographical Society
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.
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London Book Trades
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
... dated between 1066 to 1250, sixty-five years since Graham Pollard published his pioneering article, ‘The construction of English twelfth-century bindings’ in the 1962 issue of The Library. To attend online, please register for the event here: bibsoc.org.uk/event/homee-...
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Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture - Bibliographical Society
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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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 ...
bibsoc.org.uk
Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture - Bibliographical Society
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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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.
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Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture - Bibliographical Society
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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Duties simply involve encouraging people to sign up to the Society, and ensuring the stall is not left unattended. Volunteers will be granted free entry to the fair, and will be able to browse its offerings before or after their shift. To volunteer, email: annabelle.hondier@kcl.ac.uk
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Bibliographical Society is looking for three volunteers to help with its FIRSTS London stall at the following times: • Friday the 15th of May, 5-8pm • Sunday the 17th of May, 11am - 1pm • Sunday the 17th of May, 1-3pm
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
His title is ‘Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press’, and his paper will examine the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London’s first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.
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Bibliographical Society Lecture| 21 April 2026
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Library | Volume 27, Issue 1 The first issue published with LUP on behalf of @bibsoc.bsky.social contains contributions from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social, @saranorja.bsky.social, @brandonwhawk.bsky.social, @samlemley.bsky.social & @tntwining.bsky.social. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/Library-27-1
The graphic features the pale blue cover of The Library journal, on a blue banner at the bottom which contains the LUP logo and the Bibliographic society logo next to it. The background is a dark-panelled wooden library shelf with a ladder, featuring text overlaid in white which reads: 'The journal of The Bibliographical Society; the pre-eminent scholarly journal for the study of bibliography and of the role of the book in history.'
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