The London Rare Books School 2009
Institute of English Studies, University of London
The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, which is the centre of the University of London’s federal system.
The courses will be taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute’s Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of London Research Library Services, and many more. All courses will stress the materiality of the book so you can expect to have close encounters with remarkable books and other artefacts from some of the world's greatest collections. Each class will be restricted to a maximum of twelve students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books.
In 2009, the LRBS will run for two weeks: 20 July to 24 July and 27 July to 31 July. The courses planned are:
1. The Book in the Ancient WorldCourse Lecturers: Dr Irving Finkel, Dr Matthew Nicholls, Dr Marigold Norbye and Alan Cole, Curator of the Museum of Writing.
2. The Medieval Book
Course Tutor: Professor Michelle Brown.3. The Printed Book in Europe 1450-2000
Course Tutor: Professor John Feather.4. A History of Maps and MappingCourse Tutors: Dr Catherine Delano-Smith and Sarah Tyacke CB.5. An Introduction to BibliographyCourse Tutor: Professor Tony Edwards.6. Children’s BooksCourse Tutor: Jill Shefrin.
Week Two: 27 - 31 July
1. Type and its Uses 1455-1830
Course tutor: Professor James Mosley
2. European Bookbinding, 1450-1820
Course tutor: Professor Nicholas Pickwoad
3. Modern First Editions
Course tutor: Laurence Worms
4. Maps and Mapping in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Society, Nation, Empire, War.
Course tutors: Dr Catherine Delano-Smith and Sarah Tyacke CB.
5. The Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Book, c.600-1050
Course tutor: Professor Michelle Brown
6. Publishing Today
Course Tutor: Professor Iain Stevenson
Further details and application forms can be found at: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Studies
Institute of English Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU