History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by @IES_London @ihr_history @CILIP_lihg @Warburg_News
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Join us online or in person on Tuesday 3 November 5.30pm GMT @Warburg_News. Our expert panellists will discuss the changing fashions for Sir Francis Bacon, from private collections to institutional research libraries. Info: bit.ly/FashionsForSirFrancis…. Image: @ExploreWellcome.
ALT Line engraving of Sir Francis Bacon, by S. van der Passe.
Join us online or in person on Tuesday 6 October 5.30pm BST @Warburg_News. Alex Laar's topic is A ‘Revolutionary’ at Lincoln College, Oxford? The seventeenth-century Arminian library of Gilbert Watts (d.1657). Booking info: bit.ly/ArminianLibrary. Image: bookowners.online/Gilbert_Wa…
ALT Armorial stamp of Gilbert Watts
Join us online or in person for our seminar on Tuesday 2 June 5.30pm BST @Warburg_News. Ellen Werner's topic is 'Early modern cultures of reading in North West England' using case studies from Manchester's Chetham’s Library. Info: bit.ly/ReadingInNorthWestEng…. Image: @chethamslibrary
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/LibraryOfSaintAugusti…. Image: The Trustees of the British Museum: britishmuseum.org/collection…
ALT 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.
Join online or in person on 3 March 5.30pm
@Warburg_News. Emmeline Ledgerwood's topic is The National Lending Library for Science & Technology & its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain: bit.ly/NationalLendingLibrar…. Image: British Library Corporate Archive
Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and New Year, from all at the History of Libraries Research Seminar. Image: Brixton Library libraries.lambeth.gov.uk/-/b…
ALT Brixton Library in the snow.
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm GMT @Warburg_News. Tracy Cosgriff’s digital humanities topic is ‘Reading in a Renaissance Pope’s Library: The Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata’. More info at: bit.ly/RenaissancePopesLibra…. Image: Vatican Museums
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 4 November, 5.30pm @Warburg_News. Dr Jason McElligott's topic is 'Books for Old Soldiers. The Pensioners' Library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1833-1929'. Info: bit.ly/BooksForOldSoldiers. Image: heritageireland.ie/places-to…
ALT Courtyard of Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
All are 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/LibrariesAndDelinquen… @SMCoulombeau @Warburg_News
Do join us online or in-person on Tuesday 3 June at 5.30pm BST. Elizabeth Gow will be discussing ‘From Wiclif to the present time’: exhibiting English Bibles at the John Rylands Library, 1899-1911. Book: bit.ly/ExhibitingEnglishBibl…
@ecgow @Warburg_News. Image luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/s…
Delve into voluntary and ‘involuntary’ late nineteenth century libraries on Tuesday 6 May at 5.30pm BST. All are welcome (online & in-person) to hear Keith Manley discuss library philanthropy in Victorian Britain @Warburg_News. Please book your place here: bit.ly/VoluntaryLibs
