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The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
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For this month Council’s Choice on the Society's website, @juliawalworth.bsky.social highlights Fragmentarium, another online resource for the study of medieval manuscript culture: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

For anyone who missed the Society’s virtual Winter Visit yesterday to the library of St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, a video is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcP...

Our friends at the Stationers' Company have asked us to help publicise their forthcoming annual lecture on 24 March: 'The Future of Truth: Why we should support Research in the Arts and Humanities' to be given by Dame Judith Macgregor. www.stationers.org/events/detai...

This month's edition of well-designed journal covers is a long-term classic, The Library from @bibsoc.bsky.social: a simple layout in a beautiful typeface that gets all the necessary information across. No bold anywhere in sight. Plus a cute cul-de-lampe for the journal subtitle. #scholarlyjournals

On Thursday, 27 February, at 17.00 GMT, the Society will travel virtually to visit the library at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai. The library, founded in the 6th century, is the world’s oldest continuously operating library.

I have finally joined @bibsoc.bsky.social! Why didn’t I do it sooner?

The Society’s fourth meeting of the 2024/2025 season will take place on Tuesday, 18 February 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.

Hi @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @bibsoc.bsky.social might you be able to share the post below with your adoring followers? Is relevant to library history, book collecting, book production etc.

For this month's Council's Choice, Lucy Evans highlights an online exhibition about Operation Tiger, when London's famous Gay's the Word bookshop was raided and over 140 titles seized in April 1984: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Posted on behalf of our friends at Middle Temple Library: bibsoc.org.uk/virtual-tour...

Our third meeting of the 2024/2025 season will take place on Tuesday, 21 January 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.

Posted on behalf of our friends at the Print Matters summer school: bibsoc.org.uk/print-matter...

Uncut Volvelle!

Now online, papers from three of our grant recipients: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_I_...

Now online: MAUREEN BELL and TOM LOCKWOOD, Ordered That the Clerke henceforward shall keepe a Wast Booke This paper identifies and explores ‘The Wast Register booke for entring of Coppies’ that the Stationers’ Company started to keep on 7 April 1687, locating that document ...

Now online: GEOFFREY DAY, The preservation and recycling of 'waste' printed sheets in the eighteenth-century book trade

Happy New Year, all. For this month Council’s Choice, Stella Panayotova highlights Digital Scriptorium, ‘an increasingly indispensable portal into North American repositories of medieval and early modern manuscripts’: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

To conclude the year, here’s a round-up of the various Council’s Choices for 2024: bibsoc.org.uk/publications...

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Richard Linenthal highlights the Portable Antiquities Database and how it might be used by book historians. ‘Try searching the fields of “book clasp” or “seal matrix” for literally thousands of examples …

yes, it is this time of the year, the Panizzi lectures are back at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ! on 5, 10 and 12 December and yes, it is hybrid. Links to register to all 3 lectures on the @bibsoc.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/37drz3mf

For those who missed the press around the William Blake discoveries (mentioned in our previous post), catch up here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...

Friends in Cambridge have pointed out the following: www.eventbrite.com/e/reinventin...