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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us online or in person on Tuesday 6 October 5.30pm BST @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Alex Laar's topic is A ‘Revolutionary’ at Lincoln College, Oxford? The seventeenth-century Arminian library of Gilbert Watts (d.1657). Info: bit.ly/ArminianLibr.... Image: bookowners.online/Gilbert_Watts

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us online or in person for our seminar on Tuesday 2 June 5.30pm BST @warburginstitute.bsky.social. @ellenwerner.bsky.social's topic is 'Early modern cultures of reading in North West England' using case studies from Manchester's @chethamslibrary.bsky.social. Info: bit.ly/ReadingInNor....

Historic book stacks at Chetham's Library, Manchester.

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Join us online for our next seminar on Tuesday 5 May 5.30pm BST. Jérémy Delmulle’s topic is The Library of Saint Augustine: Between History and Legend. All welcome. Information & booking: bit.ly/LibraryOfSai.... Image: The Trustees of the British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...

Woodcut of St Augustine of Hippo in bishop's garb, holding a book on which a heart pierced by an arrow is resting; the Christ Child holding a spoon; with leaf ornaments against black ground in upper corners; illustration to an unidentified publication. Date of production: 1490-1520.

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Join online or in person on Tues 3 March 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Emmeline Ledgerwood's topic is The National Lending Library for Science & Technology & its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain: bit.ly/NationalLend.... Image: British Library Corporate Archive

Photo of interior of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and New Year, from all at the History of Libraries Research Seminar. Image: Brixton Library libraries.lambeth.gov.uk/-/brixton-li...

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm GMT @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Tracy Cosgriff’s digital humanities topic is 'Reading in a Renaissance Pope’s Library: The Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata'. More info at: bit.ly/RenaissanceP.... Image: Vatican Museums

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tues 4 November, 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Jason McElligott's topic is 'Books for Old Soldiers. The Pensioners' Library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1833-1929'. Info: bit.ly/BooksForOldS.... Image: heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...

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History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 7 October, 5.30pm. Sophie Coulombeau will be discussing classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman & thief Charles Burney (1757-1817). More info here: bit.ly/LibrariesAnd... @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Book cover: Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance, by Sophie Coulombeau.

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