Bibliographical Society - Royal Historical Society

Joint Conference

4 November 2006

(Institute of Historical Research, Senate House)

The Bibliographical Society and the Royal Historical Society announce a joint conference to elucidate areas of mutual interest to bibliographers and historians, approaching the same material from different perspectives.

Morning Session:

Registration: 9.30-10.00

Ecclesiastical Records: 10.00-11.00

Tessa Webber (Bib.Soc.): Medieval Libraries of Great Britain and the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: bibliography and the study of religious culture in Britain in the Middle Ages

Kenneth Fincham (RHistSoc.): Bibliography and "The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835"

Andrew Pettegree (moderator)

Coffee: 11.00-11.15

Reading and the Use of Books: 11.15-12.15

William St. Clair (Bib.Soc.): How can we write histories of reading?

Jason Peacey (RHistSoc.): Factotums and Fliers: bibliography and the political culture of the English civil wars

Kristian Jensen (moderator)

Book Trade: 12.15-1.15

Maureen Bell (Bib.Soc.): Trader and traded: starting with the book

Bill Bell (RHistSoc.): The Book in History:  Scotland 1800-1880

James Raven (moderator)

Afternoon Session: 2.30-3.30

Ecclesiastical Records:

Patrick Hornbeck II (Bib.Soc.): Rehabilitating the Inquisitors: Court Books and Heresy Trials in England , 1381-1521

Theo Riches (RHistSoc.): Anecdote and the Archive in High Medieval Historiography

Reading and the Use of Books:

Fred Schurink (Bib.Soc.): Classical Translation and Reading in Mid-Tudor England

Andrew Cambers (RHistSoc.): "Not willing to hide it in a napkin": books of life and their afterlives

Tea: 3.30-4.00

Book Trade: 4.00-4.30

Catherine Armstrong (Bib.Soc.): "Good Newes from Virginia": the influence of print culture on the English understanding of North America , 1607-1660.

David Rundle (RHistSoc.): The International Book Trade and Manuscript Culture in the Fifteenth Century

Wrap-up moderated by Jinty Nelson: 4.30-5.00

The conference will take place on 4 November 2006 at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, London WC1. Places are limited to 65. A fee of £10 will include coffee, lunch and tea.

To register, please contact the Executive Secretary, Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, rhsinfo@rhs.ac.uk.