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Monthly Lecture ProgrammeSession 2008 - 2009The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture
Programme for the session 2008 - 2009ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGTuesday, 21 October 2008 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at Westminster Abbey Library, East Cloister, London SW1, at 5.00 p.m. Dr Tony Trowles, Librarian of Westminster Abbey will introduce the Abbey's library and its collection following the business of the meeting.
MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMMETuesday, 18 November 2008 (Pearson Lecture Theatre (North East Entrance); Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room. EVANGELOS KYRIAKIDIS: "The personal history of a Mycenaean Big Cheese: Scribe 2 and the Mycenaean bureaucracy of Pylos".
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room) CHRISTOPHER IVIC: "The Creation and Reception of Jacobean Union Ideas". This paper explores the transmission of print and manuscript ideas on the Jacobean Union, with particular emphasis on annotations in printed books.
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 (Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room) J. F. COAKLEY: "Missionary printing in the Middle East. A survey of missionary societies and their presses from Malta to Iraq in the 19th century."
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the North Cloisters) RANDALL HERZ: "From manuscript copy to the printed book: Hans Tucher's Palestine account of 1482." A case study of the use of printer's copy in two early southern German printing shops.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009 (Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room) JILL SHEFRIN: "Mr Darton Was Induced to Publish": Booksellers and the Early Infant School Market". The explosion of philanthropically funded educational institutions, particularly the development of the infant schools in the early 19th century, created a parallel explosion in the production of printed educational ephemera. The evidence lies in publishers' advertisements, surviving prints and pastimes and the minute books and journals of educational institutions.
Graham Pollard Memorial LectureTuesday, 21 April 2009 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room) MARGARET WILLES: "The Common Reader. Case studies of how readers with limited finances discovered, acquired and borrowed books, 1690 to 1920".
The Homee and Phiroze Randeria LectureTuesday, 19 May 2009 (Pearson Lecture Theatre, North East Entrance; Tea beforehand and the reception following will be held in the South Cloisters) KAREN LIMPER-HERZ: "Jacques-Auguste de Thou's Bindings in the Grenville Collection: a Study in Bookbinding Provenance to Thomas Grenville".
The Summer VisitThe Summer Visit for 2009 will be to Thomas Plume's Library, Market Hill, Maldon, Essex , on Thursday 2 July, beginning at 2.15pm. Mrs Erica Wylie, librarian, will introduce the library, its history, collections, and present activities. There will be an exhibition drawn from the collections, which Mrs Wylie has kindly offered to tailor, where possible, to the interests of members on the visit. Tea will be available at a local teashop in Maldon following the visit. The visit is open to all members of the Society, without charge, but numbers are limited and those intending to come must notify the Hon. Secretary by post or e-mail not later than 25 June. Guests may be permitted if numbers allow, but preference will be given to members; places will be allocated as replies are received and confirmation will be sent. There may be a small charge for tea. Please download the Summer Visit form [word document, 33kb] to attend and for further information.
VenuesMeetings will be held in lecture theatres at University College, Gower Street, London, WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m. Exact lecture theatres are given in the calendar above. Margaret Ford PANIZZI LECTURESThe 2008 Panizzi lectures, entitled Reading Bindings: bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books, will be given by Professor Nicholas Pickwoad. For more information click here The lectures will take place on November 26 and December 2 and 10 at 6.15pm in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB . Tickets (free) should be obtained in advance by booking online at http://boxoffice.bl.uk or calling +44 (0)1937 546 546.
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