The typographer Stanley Morison was born #OTD in 1889. We are lucky to look after his personal library & archive, including the gold medal he was awarded by The Bibliographical Society in 1948 'for distinguished services to bibliography'. It carries images of a scribe & a printing press.

Our friends at The Revels Office have asked us to share details of this conference, which is coming up on 13 June: sal.org.uk/event/revels/

The relaunch of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-th…

Briefly returning to X to share our CfP for the CELL Built with Books Symposium. Come and geek out with us over #EarlyModern libraries and the books that filled them! Abstracts due May 16th, full details here: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Delighted to be taking part in Firsts Rare Book Fair. Do come and say hello if you're visiting the fair.

The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome! bibsoc.org.uk/introduction-t…

For this month’s Council’s Choice, our President Nicolas Bell salutes the return of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-choic…

Our lecture from April is now online: David Shaw, The Stationers and the Poor Law youtube.com/watch?v=Pnd0WR…

Our lecture from May is now online: Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings youtube.com/watch?v=AMcNv0…

For this month’s Council’s Choice, Daryl Green highlights the German-language wiki Buntpapier, assembled and hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a subset of their larger “ProvenienzWiki”: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-choic…

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians

For this month's Council's Choice, our Honorary Secretary, Karen Limper-Herz, writes about the Einbanddatenbank, a key resource for identifying German bookbindings of the 15th and 16th centuries: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-choic…