Current Programme
Programme 2024-2025
Tuesday 22nd October 2024, 6.30p.m.
Dr. Alexander Scott:
Thomas Phillips: Enslaver, Colonist, Bibliophile
National Library of Wales
Tuesday 19th November 2024, 6.30p.m.
Dr. Andrea Immel:
Revising Roscoe: The Problems of Describing Newbery Children’s Books 50 Years Later
Online meeting via Zoom
Saturday 14th December 2024, 11.00a.m.
Dr. Rasma Bertz-Meyers:
The Legacy Value of a Sore Subject: Can a 19th-Century Oral History Collection be Decolonised?
St. Paul’s Methodist Centre, Queen’s Road.
Tuesday 21st January 2025, 6.30p.m.
Dr. Berthold Kress:
A Little-Known Legacy of Luther's Printers: Tracing Wittenberg New-Testament Illustrations across Europe
Online meeting via Zoom.
The translation of the Bible by Martin Luther (1483–1546), which began with the New Testament in 1522, was of seminal importance both for the success of the continental Reformation and for the development of the modern German language. This talk will highlight a third, often overlooked, aspect, its importance for the history of New-Testament illustration. Here, its influence was constrained neither by denominational nor by linguistic limits – the image programme as devised by Luther’s printers appears also in Catholic and Anglican, and Reformed Bibles, from Venice to Iceland, from Paris to Prague, well into the Baroque period. Having well over a hundred ‘variations of a theme’, virtually all of them in editions that are neatly localised and dated, offers a rare opportunity to study the spreading of images in the age of hand-press printing. This talk will describe the emergence of this new system of Bible illustration and trace some paths and some methods of dissemination as well as modern tools that have proven helpful for describing this material.
Saturday 22nd February 2025, 11.00a.m.
Prof. Raluca Radulescu:
Writing History and Literature in Late Medieval Britain: Political King Arthur(s) at the Borders
St. Paul’s Methodist Centre, Queen’s Road.
Tuesday 25th March 2025, 6.30p.m.
A.G.M. followed by Prof. Helen Wilcox:
Printing Immortality: Herbert, Vaughan and the Gregynog Press
National Library of Wales.