Events

Calendar of Events 2016–2017

Monday 16 October 2017
    Christ Church Upper Library at 5.15 p.m.
STEPHEN GRANT
Collecting Shakespeare: the lives and books of Henry and Emily Folger

Monday 30 October 2017
    Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
ANDREW DUNNING
    (British Library)
Searching for manuscipts from St Frideswide’s Priory

Thursday 2 November 2017
    Christ Church Upper Library at 5:45 p.m.
Launch party for David Rundle and Ralph Hanna's A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts at Christ Church, Oxford

Monday 20 November 2017
    Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS
    (University of Oxford)
The social uses of books in the eighteenth-century home

Monday 22 January 2018
    Christ Church Upper Library at 5.15 p.m.
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
    (CECS University of York)
William Blake’s ‘Illuminated Printing’: a demonstration of Blake’s method of printing word and image together from relief-etched copper-plates

Monday 5 March 2018
     Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
ROBIN DARWALL-SMITH
    (University of Oxford)
The history of the College history

Monday 7 May 2018
    Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
DUNSTAN ROBERTS
    (University of Cambridge)
Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582–1648), his library, and his bequest to Jesus College, Oxford

Monday 21 May 2018
    Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
LUCY RAZZALL
    (University of Cambridge)
"A boxe of balme full swete": books and boxes in early modern England

Thursday 31 May 2018
    Weston Library Lecture Theatre at 5.15 p.m.
RICHARD GAMESON, RALPH HANNA, PETER KIDD and DAVID RUNDLE
A round-table discussion of Oxford’s medieval manuscripts, their catalogues and cataloguing, chaired by Dr Tessa Webber and introduced by Prof. Henry Woudhuysen

Wednesday 13 June 2018
    McKenna Room, Christ Church
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Meeting to begin at 4.30 p.m. Lecture to follow at 5.15 after a brief interval for tea.
CHRISTOPHER EDWARDS
    (bookseller, late of Magdalen College, Oxford)
A bookseller’s life

Visits (held jointly with the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 at 3.00 p.m.
Visit to the THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE and the PEET LIBRARY by kind invitation of the Librarian, Amanda Saville. Places are limited, and those wishing to attend are asked to inform the Secretary at least two days in advance.

Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 3.00 p.m.
Visit to CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE LIBRARY by kind invitation of the Librarian, Joanna Snelling. Places are limited, and those wishing to attend are asked to inform the Secretary at least one week in advance.