For this month’s Council’s Choice, our Past President Richard Linenthal highlights the Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts ...

Off to visit Exeter Cathedral tomorrow with members of @bibsoc.bsky.social, so it was fun to happen upon the cathedral’s eighteenth-century bookplate this lunchtime, depicting St Peter. In a copy of Hippocrates printed at Venice in 1538 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Keynes.U.3.30.

For this month’s latest Council’s Choice, our Hononary Secretary Liam Sims highlights Baskerville’s punches on Cambridge’s Digital Library.

@bibsoc.bsky.social Might you be able to give either or both of these posts a push? Volvelle-tastic event at the RCP next week. bsky.app/profile/rcpm... bsky.app/profile/girl...

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We will soon be hosting our summer lectures on Tuesday 23 June - join us to discover the fascinating history of interactive printmaking with two expert speakers Suzanne Karr Schmidt & Katie Birkwood, & create your own interactive volvelle. history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k... #BodyOfKnowledge

Our friends at the Ligatus Summer School would like us to share that this year's Summer School is taking place in Rome, from 21 September to 2 October, hosted by the Biblioteca Alessandrina in La Sapienza University.

Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical, cultural and social significance: unesco.org.uk/news/five-ou...

Five outstanding collections join the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register | UNESCO in the UK

Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical…

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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.

Most read article | The Library 'The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books' @tamarajatkin.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk ➡️ Read the article online: bit.ly/Library-Atkin @ies-sas.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @davidshaw41.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social

Matthew Payne’s lecture, ‘Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press’, is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmU... It examines the circumstances surrounding the setting up of London’s first press, and the distribution of works produced by it in London in the 1480s.

Bibliographical Society - Who was Elizabeth Northe? John Lettou and London’s first printing press

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Following the recent successful launch of the London Book Trades wiki (LBT: lbt.bibsoc.org.uk), the Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce its latest electronic venture. Our goal is to promote the use of MediaWiki software as a suitable vehicle for bibliographical databases.

Looking forward to welcoming members old and new at the Firsts London book fair. We're here today from 11, and all weekend. Do come and say hello.

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 19 May 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom. Andrew Honey, Book Conservator (Research & Training) at the Bodleian Library will deliver the Homee & Phiroze Randeria Lecture.

The Bibliographical Society is looking for three volunteers to help with its FIRSTS London stall at the following times: • Friday the 15th of May, 5-8pm • Sunday the 17th of May, 11am - 1pm • Sunday the 17th of May, 1-3pm

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.

Bibliographical Society Lecture| 21 April 2026

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The Library | Volume 27, Issue 1 The first issue published with LUP on behalf of @bibsoc.bsky.social contains contributions from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social, @saranorja.bsky.social, @brandonwhawk.bsky.social, @samlemley.bsky.social & @tntwining.bsky.social. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/Library-27-1

The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Also now online is the Bibliographical Society’s lecture from February, given by Dr Barbara Heritage, 'Staying in print: The Brontës, 1846-1876': www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FB...

Bibliographical Society: Staying in print: The Brontës, 1846-1876

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We are pleased to report that Dr Nicolas Bell’s recent lecture commemorating the centenary of the publication of the Short-Title Catalogue is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFe...

Bibliographical Society - The Revision of the Short-Title Catalogue

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The Library | Most Read 'A True and Impartial Narrative of the Lives of the Fletchers of Oxford, Eighteenth-Century Booksellers' by Christine Ferdinand @bibsoc.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @davidshaw41.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/Library-Ferdinand

The Society’s next meeting will take place on Tuesday, 17 March 2026, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.

Bibliographical Society Lecture| 17 March 2026

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The video from our Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Apostolic Library is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/qFpVFbd7PSk

Bibliographical Society - Winter Virtual Visit - Vatican Apostolic Library

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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Alessandro Bianchi has chosen AGORHA, a suite of thematic databases bringing together digitised documents, archival sources, and biographical records relating to individuals, collections, and institutions in France: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

@sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social This important work about the British Museum Library is now available open access here - doi.org/10.23636/t2s...

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We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R. Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx

Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖

@laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One of the starting points for this year’s summer school course in book collecting will be the Durning-Lawrence collection @senatehouselib.bsky.social. Constructed to try to prove that the works of Shakespeare were written by Francis Bacon… #BookSky #BookHistory 1/2

On Friday 13 March, an in-person training day in digital methods for bibliographical study has been arranged by the Institute of English Studies and the Bibliographical Society, in association with the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester who will host the event.

Bibliographical Society Digital Skills Training: IES

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On Tuesday 3 March 2026, at 15.30 GMT, the Bibliographical Society will travel virtually to the Vatican Apostolic Library. Founded in 1450 by Pope Nicholas V to promote Humanistic studies, the Vatican Library is one of the world’s most famous libraries.

Bibliographical Society Virtual Winter Visit

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The fourth meeting of our 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday 17 February 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.

Bibliographical Society Lecture| 17 February 2026

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Our friends at Cambridge University Library are hosting the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub on 20 March.

For this month's Council's Choice, Joseph Hone highlights the Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700): bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Our friends at UCL are hosting an event examining how archives, libraries, and museums underpin a functioning democracy: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

The State of the United States: Safeguarding Knowledge: When Memory Becomes Political

This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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