The London Rare Books School (LRBS) offers intensive summer courses on book history and rare books. Hosted by the IES, Senate House
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26 Feb 2025
Join us for a Panel Discussion on 'Place-based Cultural Regeneration' on Monday 3 March!
🕓 4:00-7:00 PM
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
Find out more and book here: buff.ly/4hT7Mri
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4 Nov 2024
🌟 Exciting news! Enrollment is now open for our London International Palaeography School (LIPS) Summer Program, taking place from June 9th to 13th, 2025! 🌟
Discover more about our offerings and secure your spot here: buff.ly/4a4SjjH
#Palaeography #SummerSchool
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9 Sep 2024
New talk announcement:
Chemical Colour: Evidence for ‘Coal-Tar’ Pigments in British Printing Ink, 1860–1914
With Ian Dooley
Wednesday 6 November 2024
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
7–8.30pm GMT
To book, please visit: tinyurl.com/chemicalcolour
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21 Aug 2024
We are fully booked for our LRBS short course: Medieval Book Production & the Collections of Hereford Cathedral!
Attendees will learn from the brilliant Professor Michelle Brown @digiscriptor about one of Britain's most ancient & significant collections of medieval manuscripts.
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30 Jul 2024
Exciting News!
We have started planning for The @LondonRareBooks School and London International Palaeography School 2025 - stay tuned for updates! 📚
#LRBS2025 #LIPS2025 #RareBooks #SummerSchool
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20 Aug 2024
Publishers' archives are much more than collections of famous authors' materials; they are the history of the publishing industry.
That's why there're concerns over the recent news of the sale of George Orwell archive.👇
theguardian.com/books/articl…
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15 Jul 2024
I'm thrilled to announce this CFP for a symposium to be held @IES_London on December 9, 2024. "Migrant Institutions" invites paper proposals across disciplines to explore the seismic impact of postwar migration on British cultural institutions. Send proposals by Sept. 16th!
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9 Jul 2024
Exciting News!
Our very own Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies, @LauraJCleaver has recently published the edited collection: 'The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945'.
An interesting read ahead!
#ManuscriptStudies #NewBook
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3 Jul 2024
Proofs have arrived!
"Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" is set to be released in August. I will be presenting excerpts from the Element tomorrow at #SHARP2024.
ALT BnW Proofs: Title Page; Cambridge Elements. Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar. Author: Kanupriya Dhingra
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2 Jul 2024
#OTD in 1825, the author of this manuscript began his journey from England to Belgium & the Netherlands, where he marvels at local architecture, cucumber salads, & the famous organ at Haarlem, & nearly gets hit by a stray arrow in Brussels ...
Read more: bit.ly/Q-Belgium-T50962
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New catalogues from ABA members ✨
Browse all catalogues: aba.org.uk/catalogues
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Alongside the 'Beyond the Page' exhibits, we are very pleased to showcase some items highlighting our work on paper conservation and repair - read the story of our 'poisoned book' and what we did to identify it!
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Our display 'From Pen to Press' is now on show until 28 Sept! -see letters from Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, James Joyce's pen and artwork by Edward Bawden and follow the journey from author’s pen to finished book with items from the Archive of British Publishing and Printing
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1 Jul 2024
We are delighted to announce the opening of our new exhibition 'Her booke': Early Modern Women and their Books at Lambeth Palace Library! Admission is FREE and we welcome you to browse the exhibition during our opening hours or attend one of our events. lambethpalacelibrary.info/ex…
ALT The poster for Lambeth Palace Library's new exhibition, 'Her booke': Early Modern Women and their Books at Lambeth Palace Library. The poster features a hand coloured image of Queen Elizabeth I at prayer next to a book. The colours are bright fuchsia, blue, teal, and gold.
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20 Jun 2024
Spent two incredible days at @UniRdg_SpecColl with my @LondonRareBooks pals, examining publishers’ archives. Chatto & Windus, Longman, Hogarth, and more!🤩 Thanks very much @lhs01clg for hosting us and the inspiring chats!
And seeing an authentic Banksy was a treat too!😆
ALT All those ledgers, order books, and newspaper cuttings!
ALT The Reading Redemption
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📚We are delighted to be hosting the 'Using Publishers' Archives' strand of the @LondonRareBooks School this week with Andrew Nash.
📖Discover more about our Archive of British Printing and Publishing: collections.reading.ac.uk/sp…
#archives #publishing #rarebooks
ALT Image showing a group of people gathered around a table to examine historic books and documents.
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19 Jun 2024
Delightful and engaged class from @LondonRareBooks this afternoon, discussing the modern rare book trade. An absolute pleasure.
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26 Apr 2024
Making a start on the pop-up model of the @NewberryLibrary in our lunch break... Just waiting for the first lot of glue to dry! @LondonRareBooks #movablebooks
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26 Apr 2024
@LondonRareBooks #movablebooks day under way with @roguepages and we are building our own volvelles to crack the secret code...
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14 Apr 2024
Last chance to sign up for 'Moveable Books' - a @LondonRareBooks short course with @roguepages!
When: 26th April 2024
Deadline: 19th April 2024
Book here: buff.ly/49zQydM
#MoveableBooks #RareBooks
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