List of past meetings

1971/1972

Date	Name	Title
17 March 1971	J.D. Fleeman	The roles of bibliography and textual criticism in editorial work
23 November 1971	Christopher J. Hunt	The book trade in N.E.England c. 1800: Towards a dictionary of printers and booksellers
14 March 1972	J.B. Harley	Aspects of the 18th century London map trade
16 May 1972	James Dearden	19th century colour printing and publishers’ bindings
1972/1973
31 October 1972	Arthur Johnston	The printing of an elizabethan quarto
18 November 1972	B.G. Charles	The manuscripts of an Elizabethan antiquary – George Owen of Henllys
27 February 1973	R.J. Roberts	Where have all the novels gone? The life and death of cheap 18th century fiction.
13 March 1973	Huw Owen	Archives in libraries
9 May 1973	Mary Pollard	Some odd fish caught by Trinity’s (TCD) new bibliographical cataloguing rules
1973/1974
14 September 1973	Daniel Huws	The descent of the Welsh manuscripts
6 November 1973	Michael Turner	The John Johnson Collection and the history of the book trade
9 March 1974	Brian James	Rare books at Lampeter
7 May 1974	Roger Fairclough	Eighteenth century road books
1974/1975
29 October 1974	Geoffrey Wakeman	English trade binding from the 17th to 19th centuries
26 November 1974	Peter Davison	Editing journals
4 March 1975	Lionel Madden	Documenting nineteenth century periodicals: the impossible pursuit
19 March 1975	Robert Shackleton	Publication and censorship in 18th century France
29 April 1975	Helen Wallis	Maps and globes in the days of Pepys and Swift
1975/1976
21 October 1975	J. H. Loudon	Aspects of bookbinding in Scotland in the 18th century
18 November 1975	Brynmor Jones	‘Alice under the microscope’: Llandudno’s bibliographical puzzle.
18 November 1975	Richard Brinkley	Some ventures in book collecting
27 January 1976	Eiluned Rees	The bookbinder in 18th century Wales
27 January 1976	Duncan Isles	Slavery to the booksellers’: aspects of the profession of letters 1750-1800
17 February 1976	David Gerard	D.H. Lawrence among his people
16 March 1976	Myrddin Lloyd	Early printing in Celtic languages
4 May 1976	Paul Morgan	The revision of STC
1976/1977
19 October 1976	William S. Mitchell	Scottish bookbindings to 1700
16 November 1976	Glanville Price	Editing ‘The year’s work in modern language studies’
16 November 1976	Warwick Brown	Aspects of Aberystwyth printing
1 February 1977	Brynley Roberts	Aberdare printing
1 February 1977	Gerald Morgan	Llanrwst printing
21 February 1977	Giles Barber	English-language guides to the continent of Europe before 1870
8 March 1977	Richard A. Storey	The development of the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library
3 May 1977	Michael Perkin	Abraham Cowley and some thoughts on author bibliographies
1977/1978
25 October 1977	A.S. Maney	The making of books
29 November 1977	W. M. Merchant	Running a small press
31 January 1978	R. G. Gruffydd	Roman Catholic secret printing in Wales
31 January 1978	Philip Henry Jones	Thomas Gee, a 19th century Welsh publisher and his authors
24 February 1978	J.J.G. Alexander	Methods of work of mediaeval illuminators
14 March 1978	D. S. Meyler	Some Babylonian tablets on Pythagoras’s Theorem
14 March 1978	H. Rees	Do scientists always tell the truth?
Gregynog Symposium – ‘Book collecting’
1 September 1978	Glyn Tegai Hughes	Book-collectors in fiction
2 September 1978	A.R.A. Hobson	The architecture of English libraries in the 17th & 18th centuries
2 September 1978	E.J. Miller	The collections of the National Trust
2 September 1978	E.M. Dring	Fifty years at Quaritch’s
3 September 1978	Cecil Price	Some modern collectors of 18th century books
4 September 1978	Gwyn Walters	Antiquarianism in 18th century books
1978/1979
31 October 1978	Philip Radcliffe Evans	The Brunswick Printers – the story of a clandestine press in a prisoner-of-war camp
28 November 1978	Douglas Ball	Oliver Simon and the Curwen Press
25 January 1979	John H. Cule	William Osler reveal’d, by an ex-president of the Osler Club of London
25 January 1979	Martin Ware	The perils of medical editing, by an ex-editor of the ‘British Medical Journal
23 February 1979	L.G. Heywood	Living by the pen in 1621: Barclay’s ‘Angenis’
20 March 1979	Dennis E. Rhodes	The Union Catalogue of Incunabula in the British Isles: some problems and some results
1 May 1979	David Jenkin	Aberystwyth: a taste of yesterdayAberystwyth: a taste of yesterday
1979/1980
23 October 1979	Arthur Johnston	Reprinting Malory’s ‘Le Morte Darthur’ in 1816
27 November 1979	Elfyn Jenkins	Words! Words! Words!
29 January 1980	D.O. Jones & P.A.L. Jones	Some considerations arising from compiling a bibliography
7 March 1980	Sarah Cohen	Are publishers’ editors necessary?
7 March 1980	Glanville Price	Revising the MHRA style book
7 March1980	Eiluned Rees	My catalogue and I
24 April 1980	Tony Thompson, E.D. Jones, & Warwick Brown	The future of the printed book - Open forum
1980/1981
22 October1980	Robert Shackleton	Starting a bibliography of an 18th century French author
25 November 1980	D. Emrys Williams	Roots
20 January 1981	Edmund Fryde	Reconstructing the library of Lorenzo de Medici
13 March 1981	Julia Elton	Glorified grocers: or, behind the scenes in antiquarian book-selling
12 May 1981		The craftsman at a printer’s workshop & Techniques of etching
Gregynog Symposium - Antiquarian bookselling
4 September 1981	Glyn Tegai Hughes	On being frightened by booksellers
5 September 1981	Thomas Rae	The private press: a personal view
5 September 1981	Eric Gee	The Gregynog press
5 September 1981	Warwick Brown	A bookseller’s apologia
6 September 1981	Brynley Roberts	Some Welsh collectors and their cooks
6 September 1981	Paul Morgan	The heraldic stamps of English collectors
1981/1982
27 October 1981	Myrddin Lloyd	Sir Walter Scott and Wales
27 October 1981	Donald Moore	The imagery of title page and frontispiece
17 November 1981	Allen Samuels	Thomas Rowlandson’s publisher
19 January 1982	Dorothy Harrop	Pictures galore: illustrated books of the Gregynog Press
17 March 1982	Robin Myers	The Stationers’ Company and its records (1554-1911)
1982/1983
26 October 1982	Gwyn Walters	Bruce Rogers and the art of the book
23 November 1982	David Jenkins	N.L.W. a study in history
25 January 1983	Terry James	The Rampart Press
22 March 1983	Jeff Clements	Contemporary British bookbinding styles
1983/1984
25 October 1983	Richard Brinkley	A procession of bookmen
22 November 1983	Robert Davies	The Mervyn Pritchard Collection of early atlases and geographers at the National Library of Wales
31 January 1984	Rhidian Griffiths	Antiquary of Swansea: the career of George Grant Francis
13 March 1984	Brynley Roberts	‘Mr Lhuyd’s moving library’
10 April 1984	Frank Hogg	Presidential address
Gregynog Symposium – The Art of the Book
31 August 1984	Murray MccLaggan	The library of Merthyr Mawr
1 September 1984	Geoffrey Wakeman	The evolution of colour illustration
1 September 1984	Eric Gee	The work of Gwasg Gregynog
1 September 1984	Rhidian Griffiths	Illustrated sheet music covers
2 September 1984	Brian North Lee	The development of armorial book-plate styles in Britain
2 September 1984	Mirjam Foot	Ten centuries of European pictorial bookbindings
1984/1985
23 October 1984	Douglas Ball	Some aspects of Victorian publishers’ bindings
20 November 1984	Mansel Davies	Joseph Needham: a twentieth century Erasmus?
22 January 1985	Alistair Crawford	The print process controls the image
19 March 1985	Jo Haythornthwaite	A Victorian novelist and her publisher
1985/1986
29 October 1985	David Skilton	Publishing and republishing Trollope
26 November 1985	John Hopkins	The Society of Antiquaries and its library 1717-1985
21 January 1986	Mary Ellis	Angharad Llwyd: a woman in a man’s world
18 March 1986	R. Geraint Gruffydd	Presidential address
13 May 1986	various speakers	Collections at the National Library of Wales
1986/1987
28 October 1986	Rhidian Griffiths	Welsh music books
25 November 1986	Jeremy Potter	Nicolo Zoppino and the Italian book market 1503-1544
27 January 1987	Brynley Roberts	Presidential address
17 March 1987	Ann Rhydderch	Records of Merioneth
12 May 1987	Eiluned Rees	Bookbindings in the National Library of Wales
1987/1988
27 October 1987	David Stoker	Setting up a private press in 18th century Norfolk
24 November 1987	John Moore	John Adair and the Scottish map trade
26 January 1988	Gwerfyl Pierce Jones	The Welsh Books Council
23 February 1988	Diana Dixon	Capturing the market: promotion and advertising of 19th century children’s periodicals
22 March 1988	Mirjam Foot	Bookbinding and the history of books
Symposium Gregynog– Piety, Delight or Use’
2 September 1988	R. Geraint Gruffydd	The Welsh Bible of 1588
3 September 1988	Barry McKay	English writers on marbled paper from Sandys to Sumner
3 September 1988	David Esslemont	The Gregynog Press
3 September 1988	Prys Morgan	A Gower family’s music collection from the late 18th to the mid 19th century
4 September 1988	Patricia Moore	Illustrations from fifteenth-century books of hours
4 September 1988	Robin Price	Spanish medicine in the Golden Age
1988/1989
18 October 1988	Paul Bennett Morgan	The writer’s library: David Jones, Richard Hughes, Gwyn Jones
22 November 1988	Thomas Lloyd	Authors and book collectors of Pembrokeshire
24 January 1989	Barbara Roe	Libraries of archaeological societies in the 18th and 19th centuries
14 March 1989	Huw Walters	The Welsh periodical press in the nineteenth century
1989/1990
24 October 1989	Stephen Briggs	The worldwide publishing activities and ambitions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North (Denmark) 1825-1885
28 November 1989	Hywel Davies	‘Jacobins’ against ‘Loyal Sons of Bitches’: competing ideologies and protesting intellectuals in Wales During the 1790s
30 January 1990	Gwyn Walters	Research into early book illustration at Lampeter
20 March 1990	Jenny Stratford	Royal and noble libraries in France and England c.1350-1450.
1990/1991
23 October 1990	Malcolm Watson	Aspects of plant illustration from Dioscorides Materia Medica to Sowerby’s Botany
27 November 1990	Eiluned Rees	Disaster!
22 January 1991	Donald Moore	Illustrating Welsh history and antiquity. Examples from the earliest printed sources to the present day
5 March 1991	David Esslemont	The Gregynog Press – unpublished works
1991/1992
22 October 1991	Hywel Roberts	Welsh publishing in America
19 November 1991	John Feather	Robert Triphook – a pioneer of bibliophily
28 January 1992	Susan Davies	The challenge of Palaeography
10 March 1992	John Cule	The home doctor
Gregynog Symposium– The Book in Europe
4 September 1992	Rowan Watson	The manufacture and marketing of books of hours in the late medieval period
5 September 1992	Heledd Hayes	From the banks of the Dee to Milan and home again in print
5 September 1992	Catherine Delano Smith	The map as book illustration: explaining text in Bibles and Bible commentaries
5 September 1992	Gareth Alban Davies	A Spanish rogue in England: David Rowland of Anglesey’s Lazarillo de Tormes (1576)
6 September 1992	David Stoker	‘Strangers and brothers’:the Dutch refugee press in Norwich and its relationship with refugee presses on the Continent
6 September 1992	Glyn Tegai Hughes	Wrong books: literary traffic between Britain and Germany in the 19th century
1992/1993
20 October 1992	John Turner	Walter Scott of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
17 November 1992	Michael Turner	Membership of the London book trades before 1830
19 January 1993	Jill Barber	Pride and prejudice in nineteenth-century Cardiganshire
9 March 1993	Edmund Fryde	The Greek Manuscripts of Lorenzo de Medici, with special reference to his own commissions
1993/1994
19 October 1993	Katherine Swift	The Case of the disappearing library: or how many books had Lord Berwick?
16 November 1993	Jamie Medhurst	‘Don’t get it right, get it written’: journalist and information
25 January 1994	Caryl Davies	Sir William Jones ‘The principles of government’ (1782) in its relation to Wales
8 March 1994	J. Wyn Evans	The library of St. David’s Cathedral
1994/1995
18 October 1994	David Wulstan	Alfonso the Wise (d.1284) and his Catigas de Santa Maria. Some bibliographical problems and a solution
29 November 1994	John Harris	‘A halllelujah of a book’: How green was my valley as a bestseller
24 January 1995	Mary Burdett Jones	Early Welsh dictionaries
14 March 1995	Sarah Tyacke	Samuel Pepys and his map and chart collection
Plas Tan-y-Bwlch, Symposium The Book in Wales
22 September 1995	Philip Henry Jones	Gwasg Gee and Welsh scholarly publishing
23 September 1995	Huw Price	Law books and their uses in medieval Wales
23 September 1995	R. Geraint Gruffydd	Printing and publishing in Welsh: the first sixty years
23 September 1995	Ceri Davies	Latin prefatory poems and the books of the Welsh humanists
23 September 1995	Thomas Lloyd	Wanderings in old libraries: Welsh squires and their books
23 September 1995	Rheinallt Llwyd	The leap forward: developments in the seventeenth century
23 September 1995	Eiluned Rees	Wales and the London book trade 1718-1820
24 September 1995	Brynley Roberts	Scholarly publishing: the case of the Cymmrodorion
24 September 1995	Lionel Madden	The National Library of Wales:towards the millennium
1995/1996
24 October 1995	John Lancaster	Evidence based health care: a new paradigm for librarianship
28 November 1995	Geraint Jenkins	Historical writing in eighteenth century Wales
23 January 1996	Donald Moore	The printed page and the planted patch: the relationship between books and gardens
19 March 1996	Patricia Layzell Ward	The place of books in the Swan River Colony 1829-1954
1996/1997
15 October 1996	Brean Hammond	‘Hackney for bread’: the first wave of professional imaginative writing in England, 1670-1740
19 November 1996	Keith Robbins	Bibliography of British history: 1914-1989: a retrospective commentary
21 January 1997	David Trotter	From slip to print: the production of the Anglo-Norman dictionary
4 March 1997	Richard Sharp	Jacobite portraits
1997/1998
21 October 1997	Ian Barton	The bibliography of classical architecture: Vitruvius and after
18 November 1997	Brian Davies	Colours for the mediaeval book
13 January 1998	Lucy Tedd	The computer and the printed word
24 February 1998	John Kenyon	The rare book collection in the National Museum of Wales Library
1998/1999
20 October 1998	Chris Baggs	The Miners’ Institute libraries of South Wales in fact and fiction
24 November 1998	Glanville Price	Editing an encyclopaedia of the languages of Europe
19 January 1999	David Stoker	Surveying decrepit Welsh cathedrals: the publication of Browne Willis’s accounts of St. David’s and Llandaff
23 February 1999	Patricia Moore	G.T. Clark, scholar industrialist in the age of Victoria
23 March 1999	Eiluned Rees	Victorian visitor in Wales
1999/2000
19 October 1999	Jean Everitt	Co-operative Society libraries: more than just books
16 November 1999	Peter Hingley	Treasures of the Royal Astronomical Society Library
18 January 2000	Paul Bryant-Quinn	Silent music: on editing fifteenth-century Welsh poetry
22 February 2000	Liz Bowerman	Marbled paper: its manufacture and use in bookbindings
14 March 2000	Philip Henry Jones	John Dunton's fifty-guinea inspiration


2000/2001
24 October 2000	Hywel Roberts	John Gwenogfryn Evans printer
21 November 2000	R.W.D. Fenn	The Banks family archives and the local historian
23 January 2001	David Williams	Cistercian libraries with especial reference to Wales and the border
20 February 2001	Giles Mandelbrote	John Evelyn and his books
20 March 2001	Tegwyn Jones	Visual firecrackers
Plas Tan-y-Bwlch Symposium - Scholarly publishing
14 September 2001	Brinley Jones	Recollections of a university publisher
15 September 2001	Huw Owen	Early maps of Wales and their makers
15 September 2001	Geraint Jenkins	‘Manuscripts are the spice of life’: Thomas Richards and the real National Library of Wales at Bangor
15 September 2001	Eiluned Rees	Libri Walliae: a bibliography’s Pre-History
16 September 2001	Philip Henry Jones & Mary Burdett Jones	Gwasg Gee, Denbigh
16 September 2001	Donald Moore	Archaeologia Cambrensis: a publishing venture which created a society
2001/2002
16 October 2001	Andrew Green	Sir John Ballinger: magician or monster?
20 November 2001	Glyn Tegai Hughes	Gwasg Gregynog: downs and ups
22 January 2002	David Matthews	Spirits from the vasty deep:thoughts on re-reading Shakespeare
19 February 2002	Deirdre Beddoe	Popular fiction in women’s magazines as a source of women’s history
19 March 2002	William Troughton	Postcards – old and new
2002/2003
15 October 2002	Brenda Scragg	John and Mrs. Rylands as book collectors
19 November 2002	Rhidian Griffiths	The Master of Stationer's Hall:Isaac Jones music publisher
21 January 2003	Brian Davies	Savage colours
18 February 2003	Mark Purcell	The libraries of the National Trust
25 March 2003	Glynne Heywood	My life with books
2003/2004
21 October 2003	Maldwyn Mills	Reading the image in the book: mediaeval, renaissance and modern
18 November 2003	Derryan Paul	Sources for church building: Herefordshire 1662-1762
20 January 2004	Boyd Schlenther & Eryn White	Corresponding with 18th-century Methodists: the making of the calendar of the Trevecka Letters
17 February 2004	Maureen Bell	The British Book Trade Index on the web
23 March 2004	Helen Davies	Encounters with Welsh ancestors: explorations in the records
2004/2005
19 October 2004	Peter Thomas	Henry Vaughan Silurist: The man and the book
9 November 2004	Henry Summerson	"A very garden & seed plot": the learning and letters of Wales in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
18 January 2005	Gareth Alban Davies	Owen Jones architect 1809-74: the prophetic hand
15 February 2005	Hazel Bell	What makes an indexer?
15 March 2005	Ron Cowell	The early history of the Aberystwyth Post Office
2005/2006
11 October 2005	Brian Davies	Fake or forgery?
15 November 2005	Neil Fairlamb	Bishop Edward Stillingfleet and Marsh's Library Dublin
17 January 2006	Mary Burdett-Jones	Doctor Humphrey Foulkes: The most intellectual of Edward Lhuyd's correspondents
14 February 2006	David Stoker	"The antiquities and constitutions of a noble and ancient nation:" The publication of the Leges Wallicae 1719-1730
14 March 2006	Lionel Madden	In the stacks with Philip Larkin
A symposium in Gladstone’s Library, St Deiniols
15 September 2006	Mark Llewellyn	Reading Gladstone reading
16 September 2006	T.W. Pritchard	Looking at the Glynne-Gladstone Families and Manuscripts
16 September 2006	Ruth Clayton	Windscheffel: A place of deceptive tranquillity: Gladstone’s ‘Temple of Peace’
16 September 2006	Donald Moore	Thomas Pennant and the Mostyn Library
17 September 2006	David Selwyn	‘Sum liber Edmundi Gest’:reconstructing the library of an Elizabethan Bishop
17 September 2006	Rhidian Griffiths	Sir John Ballinger and The Bible in Wales
2006/2007
24 October 2006	Thomas Lloyd	Welsh country house libraries and their owners
21 November 2006	Anwen Pierce	The history of Gwasg Gomer
16 January 2007	Edwina Ellis	Printmaking with an Albion Press
13 February 2007	David Matthews	In the steps of "the Master": reading Henry James
13 March 2007	Beverly Davies	The Cambrian News: yesterday today and tomorrow
12 June 2007	Trevor Fishlock	In this place
2007/2008
16 October 2007	Nicolas Bell	My Ladye Nevells Booke:the keyboard music of William Byrd
20 November 2007	Michael Freeman	Sources of information for the traveller in 18 and 19th-century Wales
15 January 2008	Philip Henry Jones	From Llanidloes to Tientsin: the sad odyssey of Matthew Lewis preacher novelist soldier
2 February 2008	Gareth Edwards	The history of the National Monuments Record of Wales
11 March 2008	Lionel Madden	Libraries and librarians: some personal recollections
2008/2009
21 October 2008	Keith Manley	Love blood and teddy bears:twopenny libraries Parliament and the law in the 1930s
11 November 2008	Valerie Floyd	Music at Llanerchaeron
20 January 2009	Denis Grogan	"The pencil of nature" early photographically-illustrated books
17 February 2009	Paul Bryant-Quinn	"They had names; they had faces": Wales and the Anglo-Zulu War
17 March 2009	Helen Palmer	"I am hapy to inform you that Boneparte is defeted": writing home to Penrallt Ddu 1811-1824
2009/2010
13 October 2009	David Shaw	The book trade and the university in early sixteenth-century Paris
17 November 2009	Iwan Meical Jones	Portraying Victorian Wales
19 January 2010	Gerald Morgan	Collecting Welsh ballads
16 February 2010	John Graham Jones	The Welsh political archive
23 March 2010	Penny David	Writing about Aberglasney
2010/2011
26 October 2010	Nichola Court	The History of the Royal Society and its library
16 November 2010	D. Ben Rees	The contribution of Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf: 1836-1904) of Liverpool to Welsh publishing
18 January 2011	Stephen Briggs	Promoting Welsh county history ca.1780-1835: picturesque investigators the impoverished printer and the barefaced plagiarist
12 February 2011	Daniel Huws	A repertory of Welsh manuscripts and scribes
15 March 2011	John Turner	Peter Rabbit in America: unauthorised editions of Beatrix Potter's work
2011/2012
18 October 2011	David Stoker	John Marshall: the children's printer 1779-1824
29 November 2011	Andrew Green	E-books: here at Last?
17 January 2012	Peter Barton & Daphne Woodhouse	The Powysland Club and its library: past and present
18 February 2012	Thomas Corns	Paradise Lost: the early years
20 March 2012	Julian Thomas	Forty years in bookbinding
2012/2013
16 October 2012	Mark Purcell	National Trust Libraries in Wales: a grand tour
20 November 2012	Margaret Escott	The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-1832: pleasures and pitfalls of producing a work of reference
23 February 2013	Peter Lord	Welsh art in words: a bibliography of Welsh visual culture
19 March 2013	Robert Meyrick	The arts and crafts book: British illustrated books 1890-1940 from the N.L.W. Collection
Lampeter Symposium
6 September 2013	Eiluned Rees	The wonderful world of bibliography
7 September 2013	David Selwyn	Some thoughts on Lampeter’s foundation and historic collections as a resource for the historian of the book
7 September 2013	John Morgan-Guy & Peter Hopkins	New Insights on the donations of Thomas Phillips to the library at Lampeter
7 September 2013	Rhiannon Ifans	Welsh ballads
8 September 2013	Caroline Kerkham	William Pamplin of Soho and Llanderfel, Bala: botanical agent and publisher/bookseller
8 September 2013	David Thorne	Some place names in the Teifi Valley
2013/2014
15 October 2013	Frank Bott	Publishing Joseph Parry’s music
12 November 2013	Jennifer Macve	Deeds and dinner plates: some primary sources for Hafod
21 January 2014	Mary Burdett-Jones	From oil to print: Abraham Cooper (1787-1868) R.A. and the democratization of art
22 February 2014	Matthew Yeo	The place of the second-hand book trade in the history of the book
25 March 2014	Geraint Evans	Whodunnit?
2014/2015
21 October 2014	Peter Mitchell	Early modern anatomical book illustration
18 November 2014	Richard Ireland	Writing inside out: reflections on a collection of prison literature
20 January 2015	Philip Henry Jones	Behind the scenes at Hughes a’i Fab: Welsh Publishing in the inter-war years
21 February 2015	Andrew Prescott	Imaging and Imagining Magna Carta
24 March 2015	Neil Fairlamb	Researching local history: the pleasures of archive collections
2015/2016
20 October 2015	Keith Robbins	Completing the picture:editing volume IV of the History of Oxford University Press (1970-2004)
17 November 2015	Bill Hines	An evening with Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift and Isaac Newton: treasures of the Hugh Owen Library
19 January 2016	Brian Davies	Colouring maps
20 February 2016	Hannah Thomas	The Society of Jesus in Wales, c.1600–1679: rediscovering the Cwm Jesuit Library at Hereford Cathedral
15 March 2016	Rhiannon Ifans	Manuscript songbooks of mid-Wales
2016/2017
18 October 2016	Karen Attar	A Tale of Special Collections: The Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, 3rd edition
15 November 2016	David Wulstan	Confronting the Messy MSS of Handel's Messiah
17 January 2017	Judith Broady-Preston	Sino-Jesuitical Approaches to Knowledge Organisation and Information Delivery: A Contrast in Styles? Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei and Shanghai Public Libraries
18 February 2017	William Marx	John Warrin's Great Book
21 March 2017	Shirley Jones	Forty Years of Making Books
Symposium at Gregynog Hall
15 September 2017	Ian Gadd	The Stationers' Company: from incorporation to copyright
16 September 2017	Paul Bryant-Quinn	Welsh scholarship in Renaissance Italy
16 September 2017	Susan Davies	When palaeography is much more than the ability to read
16 September 2017	David Vickers	The Gregynog Press
16 September 2017	Diana Dixon	To instruct and entertain: Victorian magazines for children
17 September 2017	Elizabeth Savage	Early colour-printed book illustrations: making, meaning and experimenting
17 September 2017	Sarah Hutton	The challenges of editing Thomas Traherne
2017/2018
24 October 2017	David Pearson	Provenance Revisited
27 November 2017	David Stoker	The Cheap Repository Tracts in Britain, Ireland and America, 1795-1830
16 January 2018	Matthew Jarvis	English-Language Poetry and the London Welshman Magazine, 1959-1970
7 February 2018	Bill Bell	What did Tommy Read?
20 March 2018	Bill Hines	Politicians, Princes and Prelates: More Rambles around the Hugh Owen Library Stacks
2018/2019
16 October 2018	Nicolas Bell	The Welsh Martial:A Bibliographical Excursion with John Owen
20 November 2018	Dylan Foster Evans	Sir John Prise of Brecon and his Commonplace Book
22 January 2019	Christopher Baggs	George Gissing, Library History and Me
23 February 2019	Jane Cartwright	Buchedd Gwenfrewy: the Life of St Winefridein NLW MSS Peniarth 27ii and Llanstephan 34
26 March 2019	Keith Manley	Bodies in the Library:The Family Book Collection of Agatha Christie
2019/2020
22 October 2019	Peter Jones	Magic Tricks, Handy Tips, Healing Charms:Collecting Experiments in the Middle Ages
19 November 2019	Mary-Ann Constantine	Turning Travel into Books:The Bibliographical Journeys of Thomas Pennant
28 January 2020	Rhidian Griffiths	A music publisher in Victorian Wales
22 February 2020	Patrick Thomas	Medieval Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts
2020/2021
20 October 2020	Frank Bott	Spell checkers and grammar checkers: what they can and can’t do, and why
17 November 2020	Gerald Morgan	John Jones of Trefriw and Llanrwst: A unique Welsh printer
12 December 2020	Mari James	An introduction to, and virtual tour of, St David's Cathedral Library
26 January 2021	Bill Hines	Some unexpected benefactors in Aberystwyth University collections
20 February 2021	Lucy Tedd	Fifty years on: a look back at research, teaching and travel in the digital library world
16 March 2021	Richard Ovenden	Burning the books: a history of knowledge under attack
2021/2022
19 October, 2021	Giles Bergel	The Long Lives of Woodcuts on British Broadside Ballads and Chapbooks
23 November 2021	Caroline Shenton	National treasures
18 January 2022	David Vander Meulen	Littera scripta manet: the life’s work of Warren Chappell
12 February 2022	Jill Barber	Thomas Parry of Aberystwyth: a case of mistaken identity
15 March 2022	Richard Ireland	Raffles and real life: Hornung, crime and cricket
12 April 2022	Jennie Hill	The spirit of joy: advertising and ephemera at the Curwen Press
2022/2023
18th October 2022	John Hinks	A vast sea of common readers," The development of Cheap Series 1825 -1850
15th November 2022	Matthew Francis	The Odour of a Rose: Metaphor and Imagery in Modern Poetry
31st January 2023	Julie Mathias	The library of John Jones (1650-1727)
25th February 2023	Ruth Gooding	Conrad Gessner's Historia Animalium: a 16th Century Natural History Encyclopaedia
28th March 2023	Kevin De Ornellas	“’An extraordinary invention called the printing press ... great ... divine ... incredible ... amazing ... glory’: Shakespeare, Arnold Wesker and the Rehabilitation of Shylock through Bibliophilia”.
9th December 2023	Professor Bill Bell	Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print
2023/2024
10th October 2023	Gerald Morgan	A Forgotten Treasure? The Llanbadarn Fawr Missal
7th November 2023	Dr. Cathryn Charnell-White and Dr Eryn White	A Shilling’s Worth of Print? Book Subscription and the Growth of Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Wales
16th January 2024	Dr. Paul Bryant-Quinn	“Things often occur where they are least expected”: Gruffydd Robert of Milan and his readers, 1567-1857
17th February, 2024	Mr James Freemantle	Letterpress Bookmaking at the St James Park Press
19th March, 2024	Dr. Gruffudd Antur	New Light on William Salesbury and the 1567 Welsh New Testament

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1971/1972