Stephen Clarke speaks for The Bibliographical Society: Walpole & Lewis

Stephen Clarke speaks for The Bibliographical Society: Walpole & Lewis

Stephen Clarke lecture for The Bibliographical Society: Walpole & Lewis

Lecture by Stephen Clarke

23/3/2021
News Story

On the evening of Tuesday 16 March 2021, The Bibliographical Society held their second meeting of the year via zoom, in which they welcomed guest speaker, Stephen Clarke, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, Chairman of Dr Johnson's House...

A Collector Collected

A Collector Collected

Horsham Museum - Frederick DuCane Godman

News Story

17/3/2021
News Story

When you visit someone’s home, or, more appropriately these days, see them via a Zoom meeting, you are no doubt instantly drawn to their bookshelves. You might even browse through them. We all do it, not just the bibliophiles, but why? Because it helps us to understand the person better. We learn...

Interview with a Librarian: Liam Sims, Cambridge University Library

Interview with a Librarian: Liam Sims, Cambridge University Library

Liam Sims - Interview with a Librarian

an interview by Silke Lohmann

3/3/2021
Interview

The Book Collector team has felt for some time that we are regularly interviewing collectors and dealers, but librarians don't often get a chance to talk about themselves. The pandemic has only highlighted their importance when it comes to securing our bibliophilic heritage and we aim to publish an...

2021 Virtual Book Fairs

2021 Virtual Book Fairs

2021 Virtual Book Fairs

by Silke Lohmann

17/2/2021
News Story

A year has gone by and Covid-19 has changed everyone's life in one way or another. For businesses it has often meant hardship, but also opportunities and in the case of the antiquarian book market the lack of actual physical fairs has led to a quick uptake by dealers and fair organisers seeing an...

A Perfect Valentine’s Match for LGBTQ+ History Month

A Perfect Valentine’s Match for LGBTQ+ History Month

Rare Thomas Munn booklet at Horsham Museum

from The Book Collector

10/2/2021
News Story

Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the National Libraries, Horsham Museum and Art Gallery has just acquired an incredibly rare 270-year-old booklet. The publication titled The Life of Thomas Munn, alias The Gentleman Brick-maker, alias, Tom the Smuggler  tells fascinating tales of failed...

Inauguration Day

Inauguration Day

Inauguration Day, Bookish News

by Sarah Bennett

20/1/2021
News Story

To mark Joe Biden’s Inauguration day we thought we’d share with you some bookish news that's surrounded the event in recent days.

 

Tickets are Scarce

Today’s inauguration is certainly one for the history books, partly because it will be a much smaller affair than usual.

Traditionally members of...

Looking Ahead to 2021

Looking Ahead to 2021

Looking ahead to 2021

from The Book Collector

23/12/2020
News Story

As 2020 draws to a close, most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. It’s been a testing year, in ways we probably never imagined.

Whilst we know that life will not magically return to normal as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve, here are some happy things we can look forward to in 2021:

 ...

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