CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
To be held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Press's `History
of Libraries in Great Britain and Ireland' project.
PROFESSIONAL READERS:
LIBRARIES FOR THE CHURCH AND THE PROFESSIONS TO 1850
Saturday 28 October 2000
The rise of the professions depended on the support of books and
libraries, both institutional and personal. The libraries of Robert Hooke
or John Locke were resources as important in their time as the library of
an inn of court or Oxbridge College. The provision of libraries for an
often uneducated clergy was arguably more necessary than libraries for
their parishioners. This conference will hear from scholars who are
currently reviewing the development of such libraries and what
`professionals' read, in connection with the `History of Libraries in
Britain and Ireland' project, to be published by Cambridge University
Press.
Programme
9.30 Registration
10.15 Peter Hoare (Nottingham): The Cambridge History of Libraries project
10.30 Tessa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge): Monastic libraries in the
central Middle Ages
11.00 Arnold Hunt (University of Nottingham): Writing the history of
parish libraries
11.30 Coffee
11.45 W.M. Jacob (Archdeacon of Charing Cross): Libraries for the clergy
1680-1730: the Parochial Libraries Act of 1709
12.15 David Hall (Wolfson College, Cambridge): Libraries for Quakers
12.45 Discussion
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Julian Roberts (Oxford): `When does a collection of books become a
library?'
2.45 John Baker (St Catharine's College, Cambridge): The Libraries of
Common Lawyers
3.15 Tea
3.45 Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge): Private scientific and
medical libraries 1640-1750
4.15 John Symons (Wellcome Library, London): Medical and scientific
libraries 1750-1850
4.45-5.30: Discussion
Organisers: Elisabeth Leedham-Green, University of Cambridge; Giles
Mandelbrote, British Library; Keith Manley, Institute of Historical Research
Fees: Standard 22 pounds; Concessions and IES Members, 12 pounds
Venue: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House
(3rd floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, England (No Smoking building)
Enquiries to the Institute of English Studies, Tel: 020 7862 8675; Fax: 020
7862 8672;
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