Jamais vu This morning I was in the London Library – a beautiful, calm place on St James’s Square; Virginia Woolf’s favourite spot; miles of stacks and an Edwardian atmosphere, and you can borrow almost anythin...

Misreading words -- a mini essay.

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We are delighted to be able to offer small grants to support exciting research!

Our next event!

Sarah Cusk and Sophie Floate, Printed books from the libraries of some Oxford humanists

Thursday 12th March, 5:15pm, Lower Lecture Theatre, Berrow Foundation Building, @lincoln.ox.ac.uk

With a small exhibition!

In-person only: book via email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk.

OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!

We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March

On Thursday of this week (12th Feb.)!

Books! Collectors! Elizabethans! Libraries!

In person (Oxford) or online (Zoom).

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)

Grants Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

Grants!

We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.

Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.

Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

Deadline extended! You have until Monday October 20th to put in an abstract! #queerbibliography #transbookhistory

@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Hi Jason. You can email sarah.cusk@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link.

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

Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.

Good spot! Amazing roll call of names.

New OBS members list from the 1920s, including yet-to-be-rumbled forger TJ Wise.

If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!

First time for the OBS at the lovely @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social in the Saatchi Gallery, London.

And look at the queue for us!

Come and join and collect your free book!

This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees

This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!

Ahem

Wonderful! Thanks for posting, Liam.

wonderful!

Ordering the University of Oxford’s literary treasure troves “Oxford has been doing bibliography in one form or another for at least ten centuries”, Henry Woudhuysen observes in his introduction to this collection

Thanks for @thetls.bsky.social 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!

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Repeating Names A little while ago I was reading about the late 18th-century English clergyman, biographer and antiquary, Mark Noble (1754-1827), author of several works including Two Dissertations on the Mint and Co...

A micro-essay on people with the same name:

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Bookmarking Book Art – Adam Smyth 13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …

It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged).

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A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked

#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury

THIS is happening on Thursday!

ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!

Calling all #HerBook crew.

Can confirm anything by Melanie is box office material

AND on Zoom! Contact sarah.cusk[at]lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom link

9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!

We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!