History of Libraries
@histlibraries.bsky.social
History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
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Our next talk!
Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.'
How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries?
Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.'
How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries?
Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
January 31, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Our next talk!
Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.'
How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries?
Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.'
How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries?
Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
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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-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Council’s Choice for January 2026 - Bibliographical Society
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain In the spirit of the renewed year, one renewed Bodleian resource is sure to delight those interested in medieval libraries: the newly re-released Medieval Libraries...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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-cho...
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and New Year, from all at the History of Libraries Research Seminar. Image: Brixton Library libraries.lambeth.gov.uk/-/brixton-li...
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and New Year, from all at the History of Libraries Research Seminar. Image: Brixton Library libraries.lambeth.gov.uk/-/brixton-li...
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Join us in London on 5 Dec 2025 for CERL’s Seminar at Guildhall Library (guildhalllibrary.bsky.social)! Explore how Europe’s founding library collections continue to shape research today.
With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social!
Register: secretariat@cerl.org
Livestream coming soon!
With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social!
Register: secretariat@cerl.org
Livestream coming soon!
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Join us in London on 5 Dec 2025 for CERL’s Seminar at Guildhall Library (guildhalllibrary.bsky.social)! Explore how Europe’s founding library collections continue to shape research today.
With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social!
Register: secretariat@cerl.org
Livestream coming soon!
With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social!
Register: secretariat@cerl.org
Livestream coming soon!
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm GMT @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Tracy Cosgriff’s digital humanities topic is 'Reading in a Renaissance Pope’s Library: The Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata'. More info at: bit.ly/RenaissanceP.... Image: Vatican Museums
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm GMT @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Tracy Cosgriff’s digital humanities topic is 'Reading in a Renaissance Pope’s Library: The Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata'. More info at: bit.ly/RenaissanceP.... Image: Vatican Museums
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tues 4 November, 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Jason McElligott's topic is 'Books for Old Soldiers. The Pensioners' Library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1833-1929'. Info: bit.ly/BooksForOldS.... Image: heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tues 4 November, 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Jason McElligott's topic is 'Books for Old Soldiers. The Pensioners' Library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1833-1929'. Info: bit.ly/BooksForOldS.... Image: heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...
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Did you know the @rcphysicians.bsky.social lost nearly its entire library in the Great Fire of London?
Storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
has created a fabulous story all about the library, join us Mon 27 Oct to discover more!
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/events
#BodyOfKnowledge
Storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
has created a fabulous story all about the library, join us Mon 27 Oct to discover more!
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/events
#BodyOfKnowledge
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Did you know the @rcphysicians.bsky.social lost nearly its entire library in the Great Fire of London?
Storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
has created a fabulous story all about the library, join us Mon 27 Oct to discover more!
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/events
#BodyOfKnowledge
Storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
has created a fabulous story all about the library, join us Mon 27 Oct to discover more!
Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/events
#BodyOfKnowledge
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Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
Lincoln Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Library | Lincoln College Oxford
Lincoln Library 50th Anniversary
lincoln.ox.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
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Manchester celebrating public libraries - 175 years since the Public Library Act
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Manchester celebrating public libraries - 175 years since the Public Library Act
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New merch alert! 🛍️🎉
Celebrate Guildhall Library's 600th anniversary with our new tote bag and postcard.
Tote bag - £5
Postcard - 40p
Both are ready for purchase at the Library.
Celebrate Guildhall Library's 600th anniversary with our new tote bag and postcard.
Tote bag - £5
Postcard - 40p
Both are ready for purchase at the Library.
October 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New merch alert! 🛍️🎉
Celebrate Guildhall Library's 600th anniversary with our new tote bag and postcard.
Tote bag - £5
Postcard - 40p
Both are ready for purchase at the Library.
Celebrate Guildhall Library's 600th anniversary with our new tote bag and postcard.
Tote bag - £5
Postcard - 40p
Both are ready for purchase at the Library.
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 7 October, 5.30pm. Sophie Coulombeau will be discussing classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman & thief Charles Burney (1757-1817). More info here: bit.ly/LibrariesAnd... @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 7 October, 5.30pm. Sophie Coulombeau will be discussing classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman & thief Charles Burney (1757-1817). More info here: bit.ly/LibrariesAnd... @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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The Reading Room at Cambridge University Library in 1934 and 2025. Which era do you prefer?
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos
Images:
1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7)
2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos
Images:
1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7)
2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025
August 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Reading Room at Cambridge University Library in 1934 and 2025. Which era do you prefer?
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos
Images:
1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7)
2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos
Images:
1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7)
2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025
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Please share! Our new FREE exhibition celebrating 600 years since the founding of Guildhall Library is up! Opening Monday! It'll be open Mondays-Thursdays 10-4 as well as Saturday 20th for Open House! Includes the history of the original library, medieval manuscripts and early printed books!
September 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Please share! Our new FREE exhibition celebrating 600 years since the founding of Guildhall Library is up! Opening Monday! It'll be open Mondays-Thursdays 10-4 as well as Saturday 20th for Open House! Includes the history of the original library, medieval manuscripts and early printed books!
Hello world! We're the History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London account. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hello world! We're the History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London account. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.