Stop Press! Until May 15, you can order our latest publication — Essays to mark the Centenary of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1922–2022, edited by DAVID RUNDLE and H. R. WOUDHUYSEN — at a special low pre-publication price. For details, email [email protected]

We are offering a series of small grants (£200-£500) to support bibliographical projects -- esp. early career, and esp. focussed on Oxford collections.

Deadline 8 April: application materials brief.

For details, please visit oxbibsoc.wordpress.com/grants/

I reviewed Brian Cummings' Bibliophobia for the London Review of Books, but I didn't cut it up.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Yes, very enjoyable! Watch Adam Smyth open the #zine fair Bodleian Libraries (thx to Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book for encouraging me to blow my 📯) youtu.be/q6cZsz1ayLg

Join us next Tuesday, 5th March, 5:30pm for the first of two London Palaeography Seminars in the month. We are delighted to host Prof. Richard Gameson, who will speak on 'The Identification of Inks and Pigments: how, when, where, and why?'. Register here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/identif…

Looking forward to reading this arrival in the post! Undoubtedly brilliant stuff from Anna Reynolds

Our next event!

Dr Georgi Parpulov on the Greek manuscripts at Lincoln College, Oxford, with an accompanying small exhibition.

Everyone welcome -- Thursday 7 March, in person or online.

China and book history!

Everyone is welcome to our next talk -- book production in the Mao era, with Matt Wills of Peter Harrington Rare Books.

5.15pm on Thursday 1st February -- in person in Oxford, or on online via zoom.

Hope we see you there!

NEW EXHIBITION: “Marks in Books” reprises the landmark 1984 exhibition of the same name, displaying materials from the original exhibition alongside new acquisitions. It will be on view January 22, 2024–April 19, 2024 in Houghton's Edison and Newman Room.

I came to the UK as an Afghan refugee with no English. Education was - and still is - not an option for girls in Afghanistan. I am proud to say I passed my PhD UCL with no corrections.🥳

One of the trainees had the daunting job of processing a book with unopened leaves today. This means that the pages of the book are still joined together at the fold and need to be very carefully opened with a letter opener – not a task for the faint-hearted! #MyDayInLibraries

China and book history!

Everyone is welcome to our next talk -- book production in the Mao era, with Matt Wills of Peter Harrington Rare Books.

5.15pm on Thursday 1st February -- in person in Oxford, or on online via zoom.

Hope we see you there!

Our next talk! Dr Matt Wills of Peter Harrington Rare Books on book production in the Mao era.

5.15pm on Thursday 1st February -- in person on online via zoom

Do come!

Paperback of my last book now under £30 in the current Routledge sale routledge.com/Reading-Drama-…

Tonight! This will be great!

Our next talk (Thur. 23 Nov.) features the brilliant Tamara Atkin on 17th-century second-hand books. In person or online!

Oxford Bibliographical Society and Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book are hosting a talk titled 'A Golden Collector of the Golden Age' about Charles Walker Clark and his library of incunables by William P. Stoneman (formerly Houghton Library)

📅 12 October
⌚️ 5:15pm
📍 Weston Library Bodleian Libraries / Zoom

Come along tomorrow, Thursday 12th! Or join us on zoom!

Great job for anyone working on English Literature 1450-1550! Queen's College, Oxford. Please apply / spread the word.

queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/offi…

Our next talk!
Thursday, October 12th, 5.15pm UK time.
In person and on zoom. (To register for zoom, email [email protected])