THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Monthly Lecture Programme

Session 2005 - 2006

Monthly lecture programme

Annual General Meeting

The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

The Panizzi Lectures

Summer Visit

Venues

Programme for earlier years

Programme for the session 2005 - 2006

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

18 October 2005

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1. At the meeting the Society's Gold Medal will be presented to Dr. David McKitterick. Tours of the neighbouring Linnean Society library will take place after the conclusion of the meeting.

Three new Council members will be elected at the AGM.  Please submit nominations, together with a very brief (60-100 words) biography of the candidate to the Hon. Secretary in advance of the meeting.

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MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMME

15 November 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Richard Simpson: From print to paint - newly discovered images and their sources at Sir Thomas Smith's Hill Hall of 1569.

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13 December 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Peter van den Dungen: Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms (1889): the impact of a pacifist bestseller before the Great War

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17 January 2006 (Anatomy Building, J Z Young Lecture Theatre)

David Alexander : The development of the York book trade, 1700-1850: a comparative assessment based on studies towards a biographical dictionary

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21 February 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

M. H. Goodall: A little known industry: playing card manufacture in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries

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Presidential Address

21 March 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

John L. Flood: 'Foreshortened in the tract of time': towards a bio-bibliography of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

11 April 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre) [update]

John Hinks and Maureen Bell: The British Book Trade Index as a Research Resource.

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The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

16 May 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Malcolm Jones : The English print in the early modern period: an historical oversight

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The Summer Visit

Details will be announced in The Library for March 2006.

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Venues

All meetings will be held in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre of University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m., except the meeting on 17 January 2006, which will be held in the J.Z.Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, University College.

Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m. Please note the following corrections: on 13 December, tea will be served in the Garden Room at 5.30pm, and on 16 May, it will be served at 5.15 p.m. in the North Cloisters of University College. Members are welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.

The AGM will take place at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, WC1 on 18 October 2005 at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but refreshments will be served after the meeting.

Margaret Ford
Hon. Secretary

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PANIZZI LECTURES

The 2005 Panizzi lectures, entitled 'The Magic of Russia', will be given by Will Ryan. The lectures will take place on 2, 9, and 23 November 2005 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Tickets (free) should be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (telephone 020 7412 7222; email: boxoffice@bl.uk).