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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”.