IHR seminars > History of Libraries
History of Libraries
Conveners: Giles Mandelbrote (Early printed collections, The British Library), Dr Keith A. Manley (Institute of Historical Research), Professor Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies), Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary), Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University College)
Joint seminar with Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Library & Information History Group.
Venue: To be announced
Time: Tuesdays, 5.30 p.m.
Joint seminar with Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Library & Information History Group.
Venue: To be announced
Time: Tuesdays, 5.30 p.m.
| 2 February | Paul Quarrie (Maggs Bros. Ltd.) An intellectual library: the library built up between c. 1700 and 1750 by the earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle Please note: this session takes place in room G 37 (Senate House, South Block) Paul Quarrie has been intimately involved in the discovery and documentation of this library since the mid 1990s, and since 2004 in its sad dispersal. He will discuss the nature, growth and composition of this remarkable library, and some of the figures involved in this. |
| 2 March | Dr. James Willoughby (University of Oxford) The medieval library of St George's Chapel, Windsor Please note: this session takes place in room G 37 (Senate House, South Block) |
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| 27 April | Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge) The history and archaeology of a seventeenth-century library: Peterhouse, Cambridge, from Andrew Perne (d. 1589) to John Cosin (d. 1672) Please note: this session takes place in room G 37 (Senate House, South Block) At the death of Andrew Perne, Peterhouse received a bequest that transformed its library. This talk reconstructs the effects of that bequest and of subsequent decisions about the library of the College on buildings, furniture, catalogues, and the management of the collection. It reconstructs a hitherto unknown early seventeenth-century library, describes the relationship of the College with the London Stationers' Company, and charts the rise and fall of a library that, from 1595 to 1655, might reasonably be described as the finest in Cambridge. |
| 4 May | Stephen Massil (National Trust) Libraries of the National Trust: some houses in Kent and Sussex - Shakespeare, landscape and the in-laws Please note: this session takes place in room G 37 (Senate House, South Block) Some observations and experience of cataloguing for the National Trust where place, family, and changing generations put provenance at the heart of the process |
| 25 May | Dr. Keith A. Manley (Institute of Historical Research) Visit to Dulwich College Library. Numbers will be limited Bookings to keith.manley@sas.ac.uk Alleyn's legacy at Dulwich - the College of God's gift, now Dulwich College - preserves in its Archives one of the world's major resources of Jacobean theatre history, reflecting the interests and career of its founder Edward Alleyn, contemporary of Marlowe, Donne, Jonson et al. Its Fellows' Library of nearly 6,000 books represents the acquisitions of 350 years by gentlemen clerics, sometimes academic, sometimes schoolmasterly in taste, with the flavour of the country |