Upcoming Events

The Annual General Meeting will take place at the Warburg Institute on Tuesday, 28 October 2025 at 6.00 pm. Before the meeting, starting at 5 p.m., Mr Giles Mandelbrote, Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections, will lead a tour of the extensively renovated Institute and its new spaces. Places on [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Before the meeting, the Society’s Gold Medal will be presented to Dr David Shaw. Elvira Miceli, ‘Reapproaching the Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120 II) from the Cava Archive’ This talk will present preliminary findings from research at the medieval archive of [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Joseph Hone, 'T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication' In 1956 it was revealed that Thomas James Wise, a former President of the Bibliographical Society, had stolen more than two hundred leaves from the British Museum to make up [...]

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Alan Nelson, ‘The printed-book catalogues of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): eccentric publications of an eccentric man’ Sir Thomas Phillipps’s catalogues of his vast library of printed books, published chaotically 1819-1871, have experienced a similarly chaotic afterlife. Booking page for online attendance.

Nicolas Bell, The revision of the Short-Title Catalogue Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London The STC is the largest and most complex enterprise ever undertaken by the Bibliographical Society. The revised edition brought new levels of sophistication and was the fruit of a major transatlantic collaboration, initially between F. [...]

Matthew Payne, Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London's first printing press This paper will examine the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London's first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s. Booking page for online attendance

Andrew Honey, Graham Pollard revisited: New observations on the construction of English twelfth-century bindings at the Bodleian Library It is sixty-five years since Graham Pollard published his pioneering article, ‘The construction of English twelfth-century bindings’ in the 1962 issue of The Library. Drawing on observations made in the course of [...]