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We're delighted to be able to announce our great speaker list for 2024-5 -- bibliographers, artists, textual scholars, book historians, book trade specialists, librarians, rare book cataloguers ... All talks in person and online: please come along! 📚

Thrilled to see our CENTENARY ESSAYS out in the world. A beautiful object + a teeming survey of 100 years of OBS research, events, and enthusiasms. Congrats to editors David Rundle and Henry Woudhuysen 📚 To buy a copy, please contact us via oxbibsoc.org.uk/home/

Splendid piece in the splendid Literary Review by the splendid William Whyte on the founding of the OBS!

Delighted to welcome Joshua Eckhardt for our first talk of 2024-5! In person (Weston lecture theatre, Oxford), or Zoom (contact [email protected] for link – before October 17th!) We hope to see you for this fantastic talk! Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book

We are very sad to hear of the death of Nicolas Kiessling (1936-2024) who, among many publications, had great volumes with the OBS on the libraries of Robert Burton and of Anthony à Wood. We remember Nicolas in his books.

Next event! Artist Abigail Reynolds will be presenting LOST LIBRARIES, a film meditating on her solitary journey to 15 sites of former libraries along the Silk Road. Thu 28 Nov 6pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College — all welcome! abigailreynolds.com 📚📽️

In ep. 126, I sit down with Adam Smyth to discuss his, THE BOOK-MAKERS. How a book was made tells us about the people who created it, as well as what the culture valued about books. The way a book was formed changes how we interact with it. bit.ly/40bmrYu

Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February. Talk to us!

OBS / Balliol College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol - £500, accommodation + meals. Deadline 28 Feb

Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...

Come and hear Adam Smyth talk about The Book-makers: A history of the book in 18 remarkable lives on 25 February 2025 fohl.org.uk/event/the-book…

Thanks to The TLS and to ASG Edwards for a generous review of our ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1922–2022, ed. David Rundle and H. R. Woudhuysen. Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk! the-tls.co.uk/literature/bib…

Out today in paperback: THE BOOK-MAKERS by Adam Smyth—a vivid celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through 18 remarkable lives. Vintage Books 📕Available now: The Book-Makers

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…

Our next talk! -- Thurdsay 29 May (in person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.

I am talking about Gutenberg and early type-manufacture (and The Catholicon) in Oxford on Thursday evening. If anyone would like a zoom link it will be available from the Society's Secretary (contact via the website). #OxfordBibliographicalSociety