THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Session 2002 - 2003
The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
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Programme for the session 2002 - 2003
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 15 October 2002, 5.30. pm
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT. 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 collections by the Head of Library Services, WENDY THOMAS.
Tuesday 19 November 2002
Chadwick Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Tanya Schmoller
- Letters from a newspaperman in prison.
James Montgomery, hymn-writer and publisher of the Sheffield Iris, was imprisoned in 1796 for his radical description of a Sheffield riot. His letters to John Pye Smith, who kept the business going, illuminate the concerns of a provincial printer and the pressures resulting from the establishment's anti-Jacobin fears.
Tuesday 17 December 2002
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Bill Bell
- Bound for Antarctica
Reading on The Discovery, 1901–1904.
Tuesday 21 January 2003
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Frances Harris
- Transformations of love: the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin.
An exploration of an unlikely – and controversial – platonic friendship at the heart of the Restoration court, as revealed by Evelyn's books and manuscripts.
Tuesday 18 February 2003
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- John Craig
- Reformation by the book?
Erasmus's Paraphrases in English parishes, 1547–1660.
Tuesday 18 March 2003
Chadwick Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- David Finkelstein
- 'Jack's as good as his master': Scots and New Zealand print culture, 1860–1900.
The printing and publishing industry in New Zealand is an area that has particularly benefitted from imported Scottish expertise. This paper draws on over 60 examples of Scots pioneers in this field whose skills helped to shape the development of modern New Zealand.
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 15 April 2003
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Giles Mandelbrote
- The first printed library catalogue?
A German doctor's library of the sixteenth century and its place in the history of the distribution of books by catalogue.
Tuesday 20 May 2003
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Index
- Elly Cockx-Indestege
- Berthe van Regemorter and Prosper Verheyden:
books and bindings in Antwerp 1912–39.
Details will be announced in The Library for March 2003.
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 meetings on 19 November 2002 and 18 March 2003, which will be held in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre at University College.
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m. (North Cloisters on 19 November and 18 March). Members are always welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.
The AGM will take place place at The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 15 October 2002; this meeting will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
PANIZZI LECTURES
The eighteenth series of Panizzi lectures will be given by Professor Christopher Ricks on T. S. Eliot's revisions after publication.The lectures will take place on Monday 11 November, Wednesday 13 November and Monday 18 November 2002 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
Tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (phone 020-7412-7332; email boxoffice@bl.uk).
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