Our friends at Dr Johnson's House have asked to help spread the word about various events linked to their dictionary exhibition: www.drjohnsonshouse.org/events
A new list was established following his death. We are pleased to announce a further identification, made by Dr Anna-Lujz Gilbert and Samantha Brown: bibsoc.org.uk/a-new-identi...
We have for many years kept up a web page of additions and corrections to Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson’s edition of John Dee’s Library Catalogue, published by the Society in 1990. The original list of additions was maintained by Julian Roberts.
For this month’s Council’s Choice on our website, Matthew Payne highlights AALT, which provides digitised documents from medieval and early modern England: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
In this month’s Council's Choice, Kristian Jensen highlights how the CERL Thesaurus can help: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
‘The linguistic diversity and the troubled history of Europe mean that there often are dramatic variations in names used for the same persons, be they names for authors, printers, publishers, or former owners, or for places or corporate bodies, e.g. former owning institutions'
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This month’s Council’s Choice looks at a useful online resource for Russian books: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Our friends at the Ligatus Summer School tell us there are still a few places left: bibsoc.org.uk/ligatus-summ...
The Ligatus Summer School is being held this year in the Maurits Sabbe Bibliotheek of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies in KU Leuven. The courses will be run over two weeks, from 26-30 Aug...