Where possible, these in-person events will also be streamed via Zoom and the Secretary will contact members by e-mail with details.

Thursday 12 November at 5.15 pm

Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
ZACHARY LESSER (University of Pennsylvania)
The weird case of the wayward sisters

Thursday 26 November at 5.15 pm

Weston Library Lecture Theatre
MATTHEW CHAMBERS (University College, London)
‘Merely a bookseller’s catalogue’: the description of volumes in British auction and bookseller catalogues

Thursday 25 February at 5.15 pm

Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College

ANNA-LUJZ GILBERT (Queen Mary University of London)
Local book cultures and global connections in early modern Devon’s town and parish libraries

Thursday 4 March at 5.15 pm

T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College: jointly with the Merton History of the Book Group

REANNA BROOKS (Oxford University)

Who makes a book? Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press

Thursday 6 May at 5.15 pm

Shulman auditorium, Queen’s College
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Meeting to begin at 4:30 p.m. Lecture to follow at 5:15 after a brief interval for tea

ALEXANDRA PLANE (Bodleian Libraries)

The curious fates of the books of King James VI and I

Thursday 10 June at 5.15 pm

Shulman Auditorium, Queens College
ERIN PIÑON (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
Printing and collecting Armenian books in the 17th century