It is with great regret that the Society announces the death of Dr Anthony Hobson. Dr Hobson (born 1921) was a former President of the Society (1977-1979) and was awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 1992. He passed away peacefully at home on Saturday 12 July.

The Working Group held a one-day Workshop at Senate House, London, on 26 February 2014 to prepare a draft Chapbooks Action Plan, for wider discussion. Further information about the Chapbooks Working Group the draft Action Plan    

The list of fellowships and bursaries awards has now been posted on the Society's website. Projects awarded funding for 2013-2014 range from work on women's print history to an exploration of authorial colophons in late medieval manuscripts. The complete list of awards can be found here.

Monday, 2 June 2014 in the Conference Centre, the British Library We are seeking four or five papers of approx. 30 minutes each, one at 11.15 a.m. and the others after lunch, with ample time for discussion after each paper.  Papers dealing with any aspect of printing and book production [...]

The application deadline for the Society's fellowships and bursaries has been extended to midnight 16 January 2014. Application forms and guidelines can be found here.

A new version of David Pearson's annotated list of English book owners in the seventeenth century has been added to the Society's electronic publications (January 2015). Download available at English book owners in the seventeenth century.

The Society's lecture programme for the 2013–2014 season has been published. See Lectures 2013-2014

Friday, September 06, 2013 The Bibliographical Society is delighted that the University of London has announced that it is abandoning the proposed sale of four of its Shakespeare Folios. I would like to thank everyone involved in the campaign to raise awareness of the sale, and all those who signed [...]

Senate House Library, University of London, is proposing to sell copies of the Library’s first four Shakespeare folios. These folios form a critical part of the collection left to the University of London by Sir Louis Sterling in 1956, on condition that they remain permanently in the University Library.    [...]

A new AHRC-funded international research network on Community Libraries aims to establish a dynamic, interdisciplinary research forum to investigate the role of libraries in shaping communities in the long eighteenth century. Developed by Dr Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool) together with partners at Loyola University Chicago, the Newberry Library, and Dr [...]

The Bibliographical Society's new web site went live on 21 May 2013. The site has been designed and implemented by Adaptive Technologies Ltd, in conjunction with the Society's Honorary Editor of Monographs, Dr David Shaw.