THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Session 2000 - 2001
The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
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Programme for the session 2000 - 2001
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday 18 October 2000
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Travellers' Club, 106 Pall Mall, London SW1. This will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
Following the business of the meeting, members will be given a brief introduction to the Library and its holdings by the Club's Librarian, SHEILA MARKHAM.
Tuesday 21 November 2000
Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Eleanor Garvey
- The Venetians at Harvard.
Some eighteenth-century illustrated books in the Houghton Library.
Tuesday 19 December 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Stephen Bamforth
- Monsters and prodigies in a forgotten royal manuscript
The dedication copy to Elizabeth I of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires prodigieuses (Wellcome MS.136)
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 16 January 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Alan H. Nelson
- The library of Humphrey Dyson (1582-1633)
Lost and found.
Tuesday 20 February 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Susan West
- Country house libraries in Norfolk, 1660-1830.
A multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on architectural history and historical bibliography, to see when library rooms become visible in houses of the gentry and aristocracy.
Tuesday 20 March 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Michael Perkin
- Parochial Libraries: second time round.
Reflections on the revision of a Directory - on the importance of parochial collections, where they were and where they are now - and on their potential for future research.
Tuesday 24 April 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Henry Woudhuysen
- Facsimiles and early modern books and manuscripts
An exploration of various kinds of facsimile reproduction from 1700 to the present day
Tuesday 15 May 2001
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- John Sharpe
- Coptic binding structures and their near relations.
Details will be announced in The Library for March 2001.
VenuesAll meetings will be held in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre of University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00p.m., except the meeting on 21 November, which will be held in the Harrie Massie Lecture Theatre at University College.
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m. Members are always welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.
The AGM will take place place at the Travellers' Club on 18 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
PANIZZI LECTURES
The sixteenth series of Panizzi lectures will be given by Professor Michael Twyman of the University of Reading on Breaking the mould: the first hundred years of lithography.The lectures will take place on Wednesday 15 November, Wednesday 22 November and Wednesday 29 November 2000 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
All are welcome to attend, but tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Events Office (phone 0171 412 7222; email boxoffice@bl.uk).
These pages were created for The Bibliographical Society by David Shaw.
Latest upate : 14 September 2000.
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