The Bibliographical Society
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
- Our friends at Cambridge University Library are hosting the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub on 20 March.
- For this month's Council's Choice, Joseph Hone highlights the Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700): bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
- Our friends at UCL are hosting an event examining how archives, libraries, and museums underpin a functioning democracy: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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- Reposted by The Bibliographical SocietyAnd bursaries are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
- Please join us for a joint event with the Institute of English Studies on 3 February: ‘Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection’. What makes a good collection, how to craft a winning entry, and how to avoid potential pitfalls.
- We are having technological troubles with internet at the Society of Antiquaries and tonight’s lecture will likely not be broadcast online. Our speaker will be recording his talk at a later date.
- The third meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday 20 January 2026, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.
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- For those who were unable to attend, the last Bib Soc lecture is now available online: JOSEPH HONE, Thomas J Wise's Book Hospital, A Further Study in Theft & Sophistication www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8kx...
- Happy New Year! For this month’s Council’s Choice, Julia King highlights the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database, which aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated with an institutional library during the Middle Ages: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
- The Society’s second meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Dr Joseph Hone will speak on ‘T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication’.
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- The Society’s gold medal was presented last night to Dr David Shaw, past President, in recognition of his distinguished services to bibliography, including in the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue and his many publications on French and English printing.
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- The Society’s first meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.
- Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.
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- For this month's Council's Choice, Alexandra Franklin highlights Bodleian Broadside Ballads. Cyber-security concerns prompted the temporary closure of this resource in November 2024. Now all of the more than 35,000 records have returned to public view: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
- Reposted by The Bibliographical SocietyAs part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’ November 18th, 5-7pm. In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
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- The Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new e-resource: Benjamin Wardhaugh, 'Ancient Greek Mathematics in print, 1475–1703'. This can be downloaded as a PDF file from bibsoc.org.uk/ancient-gree...
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- We're delighted to announce that two new members have been elected to our Outreach sub-committee: Sam Brown and Annabelle Hondier. bibsoc.org.uk/new-voices-o...
- Our next Bibliographical Skills Workshop is taking place at the University of Stirling, on 28 October 2025: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Our friends at the British Library have asked us to share details of this year's Panizzi Lectures: events.bl.uk/events/books...
- Our friends at Middle Temple Library have asked us to share details of this Molyneux Globes Study Day: www.ticketsource.co.uk/middle-templ...
- For this month's Council's Choice, our Past President, Margaret Ford, highlights the Shakespeare Census, which provides a current census of copies of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios plus quarto editions up to 1700: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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- The Society is delighted to report that its Gold Medal will be awarded this year to Dr David Shaw in recognition of his distinguished services to bibliography, including in the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue and his many publications on French and English printing.
- For this month's Council's Choice, our Honorary Secretary, Karen Limper-Herz, writes about the Einbanddatenbank, a key resource for identifying German bookbindings of the 15th and 16th centuries: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
- For this month’s Council’s Choice, Daryl Green highlights the German-language wiki Buntpapier, assembled and hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a subset of their larger “ProvenienzWiki”: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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- Our lecture from May is now online: Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcN...
- Our lecture from April is now online: David Shaw, The Stationers and the Poor Law www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnd0...
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- For this month’s Council’s Choice, our President Nicolas Bell salutes the return of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
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- The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome! bibsoc.org.uk/introduction...
- Reposted by The Bibliographical SocietyPlease do sign and share this petition, put together to save Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections from job cuts that will see 3 of 4 archivists made redundant. @cilip.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social
- Delighted to be taking part in Firsts Rare Book Fair. Do come and say hello if you're visiting the fair.
- The relaunch of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-...
- Our friends at The Revels Office have asked us to share details of this conference, which is coming up on 13 June: www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/
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