Please see details below about the second series of fascinating and 
     illustrated talks about the BL's collections  - 'Libraries within the 
     Library' ... 
     
     Please do not apply to me for tickets (!) but to the email address of 
     our Events Office below,
     
     many thanks
     
Graham Jefcoate
Head, Early Printed Collections
British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel. +44 171 412 7785
Fax: +44 171 412 7577
Email: [log in to unmask] 
     
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     'Libraries within the Library' 
     
     A series of talks on the history of the British Library's collections
     Sponsored by the Friends of the British Library
     
     Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many 
     volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. This series 
     of public lectures aims to explore some of the smaller collections 
     which have been brought together to form the British Library and to 
     provide an introduction to the individuals whose personal interests 
     and taste they reflect ...
     
     
     Wednesday 24 November, 18.15   
     
     James Carley: The Ones That Got Away: The Dissolution of Henry VIII's 
     Library
     
     The library assembled by Henry VIII, the most scholarly - as well as 
     the most colourful - of the Tudor monarchs, reflected his wide-ranging 
     intellectual pursuits.
     
     Wednesday 8 December, 18.15 
     
     Frances Harris: John Evelyn, Library Consultant
     
     Giles Mandelbrote: John Evelyn and his Books  
     
     The manuscripts and annotated books belonging to the virtuoso and 
     bibliophile John Evelyn (1620-1706), acquired by the British Library 
     in recent years, make it possible to study how Evelyn used his 
     library.
     
     Wednesday 12 January, 18.15
     
     Margaret Nickson and Alison Walker: Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753): Book 
     Collector and Librarian 
     
     Sloane's vast encyclopaedic library, together with his natural history 
     collections, prints, coins and medals, was the principal reason for 
     the foundation of the British Museum.
     
     Wednesday 26 January, 18.15
     
     Peter Barber: For the King or For the People? The creation, purpose 
     and fate of King George III's Topographical and Maritime Collections
     
     What are George III's topographical collections and why did the 
     government try to seize them after they had been presented to the 
     British Museum?  
     
     Wednesday 9 February, 18.15
     
     Geoff West: Buying at auction: building the collections in the second 
     half of the nineteenth century
     
     Chris Thomas: A Russian bibliophile: the collection of Sergei 
     Sobolevsky
     
     The late nineteenth century was a great period of expansion - by a 
     variety of means -for the British Museum's foreign collections.
     
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     Tickets (bookable in advance) are available from the Events Box Office 
     or from the Information Desk. Wine will be available after the 
     lectures. 
     
     Lecture tickets £3.50 (no concessions)
     
     Further information:
     
     British Library Events Office (tel: 0171-412-7222; email 
     [log in to unmask])
     
     Early Printed Collections
     
     Marcella Leembruggen, Information Officer, Early Printed Collections 
     (tel: 0171-412-7665; email [log in to unmask])



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