Wednesday 11th November 2009
AGM and Committee Meeting
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Tuesday 14th – Wednesday 15th July, 2009
Umbrella Conference
“Making connections: the power of people, partnerships and services”
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. http://www.umbrella2009.org.uk/
Friday 4th September, 2009, 5pm
Bromley House, Angel Row, Nottingham
Private Tour of Bromley House, 4pm.
“Extending information history into unexpected areas: African liberation
struggles”
Evening talk by Professor Paul Sturges, University of Loughborough
With discussion over wine
Tuesday 2nd June 2009
Institute of English Studies Seminar in the History of Libraries. 5.30 pm, Room NG16 Senate House North Block, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU. Prof. Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford) John Bagford's account of London libraries (1707)
Wednesday 10th June 2009
Committee meeting
Library Seminar Room, St. John’s College, Cambridge
Wednesday 13th May 2009, 6pm
Merchiston Library, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
Private tour of the Edward Clark Collection (afternoon)
“Broadening readership: subscription libraries and mechanics' institutes in early 19th century Scotland”
Evening talk by Dr Keith Manley, Institute of English Studies, London.
With discussion over wine
27th March 2009
LIHG One-Day Conference
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London
LIHG Autumn meeting
12 November 2008, Royal Astronomical Society Library
Followed by a talk by RAS Librarian, Peter Hingley: 'Astronomers and oddities: the Royal Astronomical Society and its Library'. All wellcome. For further details and to book a place, please contact Anna Jones.
LIHG Summer meeting
8 July 2008, Special Collections Department, University of Sussex
Followed by tour of Special Collections Department, and talk on the Mass Observation Archive (times tbc). All welcome. For further details and to book a place, please contact Anna Jones.
LIHG Spring meeting
4 April 2008, York Minster Library
Followed by Library tour and speaker (tbc). There will be a small charge for this event. All welcome. For further details and to book a place, please contact Anna Jones.
LIHG Autumn meeting
14 November 2007, Wellcome Library, London
LIHG Summer meeting and Annual General Meeting
29 June 2007, Umbrella, University of Hertfordshire
LIHG Spring meeting
21 March 2007, Norwich Cathedral Library, Norwich
LIHG Computers in Libraries conference
9 November 2006,CILIP HQ, London
A programme and booking form is available.
LIHG Autumn meeting
8 November 2006, City Business Library, London
LIHG Summer meeting and Annual General Meeting
13 June 2006, Signet Library, Edinburgh
Presentation by Audrey R Walker on 'The legal libraries of the Court of Session Quadrangle - a historical guide'
LIHG Spring meeting and visit to the Special Collections Department
22nd March 2006, Cardiff University Library
Libraries and Innovation: Fourth Anglo-German Seminar on Library History
26th and 27th September 2005, British Library Conference Centre
Umbrella 2005:
The early information society in Britain by Dave Muddiman
Early public libraries in Britain: past, present and future roles by Kaye Bagshaw and Alistair Black
William Munford Memorial Lecture - The professional achievements register: an update by Peter Chapman
A revision of Munford's Who Was Who in British Librarianship by Peter Hoare
10th June - 2nd July 2005, The University of Manchester
Annual Conference in Book Trade History 2004: Book-trade Consumers: Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading
4-5 December 2004, Swedenborg House and Birkbeck College
Jewish Historical Society of England Presidential Lecture - Stephen W. Massil: 'On Immigrant Jewish Librarians in England, 1685-1965' (for the Centenary of the Mocatta Library, 1905-2005)
21 October 2004, Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London
British Book Trade History Conference
27-29 July 2004, University of Edinburgh
Pearson Memorial Lecture: The Use and Abuse of the Islamic book, Professor Jan Just Witkam
7 July 2004, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies
Libraries and the Working Classes since the 18th Century
16-18 June 2004, School of Information Management, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)
Seminar: Graham Shaw 'Beware of archives!: reconstructing South Asian book history from the India Office Records'
29 April 2004 (12 noon), History of the Book Room, St. Cross Building, Oxford
The Libraries of the National Trust: A talk by Mark Purcell, Libraries Curator, The National Trust
28 April 2004, 6.30 pm, Woking Library
Ninth annual DF McKenzie Lecture: Graham Shaw 'In or Out? - South Asia and a Global History of the Book'
28 April 2004 (5 pm), Lecture Theatre 2, St. Cross Building, Oxford
Print Culture and the City
26-27 March 2004, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Montréal
Library and Information History Group Open Meeting
24 March 2004, CILIP Ridgmount Street, London
Migrations in Society, Culture, and the Library
22-26 March 2004, Paris
Connected by Books: The Forging of Transatlantic Literary Communities
26-27 February 2004, English-Speaking Union, London
Visit to York Minster Library
30 January 2004, CILIP in Yorkshire and Humberside, York
Printing & the Worlds of Learning
5-6 January 2004, Downing College, Cambridge
LIHG committee meeting and tour of the Bodleian Library
20 November 2003, History Faculty Library, Oxford
Museums and Galleries History Group Inaugural Symposium
London, Summer 2003
SHARP at ASECS: 'The Global Trade in Books, Periodicals and Other Forms of Print in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Roundtable' and 'Literature and Artifact: Current Trends and Future Directions in Bibliographical Studies'
3-8 August 2003, UCLA, Los Angeles
SHARP 2003
9-12 July 2003, Claremont Colleges, Claremont CA
New Technologies, Old Texts
7-9 July 2003, De Montfort University, Leicester
CILIP Umbrella Conference 2003: 'From Library History to Library and Information History'
3-5 July 2003, UMIST, Manchester
Early Printed Books on the Internet
19 May 2003, British Library Conference Centre, London
Eighth annual DF McKenzie Lecture: Dr. Laurel Brake "Daily Calendars of Roguery and Woe": the Politics of Print in 19th-century Britain
12 May 2003, Lecture Theatre 2, St. Cross Building, St Cross Road (near Holywell Manor), Oxford
Technologies and Media in the Nineteenth Century
4-6 April 2003, MIT, Boston
Moving Forwards, Looking Back: Thinking about progress 1800-1850
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 April 2003, Senate House, University of London
Library History Group Special Open Meeting
6 March 2003, CILIP Ridgmount Street, London
'Percy Shelley's Remorseful Cenci'
18 February 2003, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London
Reading: Histories and Theories Workshop/Seminar
11 February 2003, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library
1 February 2003, Rewley House, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education, Oxford
Compiling A Bibliography of the English Language 1500 - 1800: A Retro-perspective
23 January 2003, Institute of English Studies, Room 329/30, Senate House, London
Postgraduate study day, Book History Postgraduate Student Network
Saturday 18 January 2003, University of Warwick
Pearson Memorial Lecture: Bibliography and the Social History of Islamic Texts
16 December 2002, Social Hall of the Ismaili Centre, London
The 10th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
July 2002, Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London
The community library: an international one-day conference on a local theme
August 2002, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
LHG committee meeting and open meeting
6 April 2002, CILIP HQ, London
Libraries and war conference, UmbrelLA 6
5-7 July 2001, UMIST, Manchester
LHG committee meeting and annual general meeting
UmbrelLA 6, 5-7 July 2001, UMIST, Manchester
LHG committee meeting
28 February 2001, St Bride Printing Library, London
LHG committee meeting
1 November 2000, Kew
Professional readers: libraries for the Church and the professions to 1850
28 October 2000, London
LHG committee meeting and annual general meeting
10 June 2000, Leeds
From people’s university to people’s library: a celebration of 150 years of the public library in Britain
3-4 April 2000, Croydon
Libraries and identity conference, UmbrelLA 5
1-3 July 1999, Manchester
Libraries and modernity: a Library History Group conference
27-29 June 1997, Manchester
The universal library: from Alexandria to the internet. Second Anglo-German seminar on library history
September 1996, London