The Bibliographical Society

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For details of our next lecture, please see: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Bring along your data or challenging use cases - whether that’s card catalogues that need converting into machine-readable format, texts to transcribe and structure (in any language or script), or images to analyse - and help put ArCH to the test. eventbrite.co.uk/e/hands-on-wit…

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-choic…

Our friends at UCL are hosting an event examining how archives, libraries, and museums underpin a functioning democracy: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

More information & booking at: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Please join us for a joint event with the Institute of English Studies on 3 February: ‘Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection’. What makes a good collection, how to craft a winning entry, and how to avoid potential pitfalls.

We are having technological troubles with internet at the Society of Antiquaries and tonight’s lecture will likely not be broadcast online. Our speaker will be recording his talk at a later date.

There is no need for you to register if you are joining us in person. To attend online, please register for the event here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

The talk will reveal how Sir Thomas Phillipps’s catalogues of his vast library of printed books, published chaotically between 1819 and 1871, have experienced a similarly chaotic afterlife.

The third meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday 20 January 2026, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.

For those who were unable to attend, the last Bib Soc lecture is now available online: JOSEPH HONE, Thomas J Wise's Book Hospital, A Further Study in Theft & Sophistication youtube.com/watch?v=A8kxPK…

Happy New Year! For this month’s Council’s Choice, Julia King highlights the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database, which aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated with an institutional library during the Middle Ages: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-choic…

To attend online, please register for the event here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…. We look forward to seeing you in person or online on 16 December.

There is no need for you to register if you are joining us in person, but you might wish to do so to enable you to join online in case your plans change and you cannot make it to the Society of Antiquaries for the lecture.

The Society’s second meeting of the 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. @JosephHone_ will speak on ‘T. J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication’.