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Gunpowder, treason and plot!
Political subversion in the library
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution
4-5 November 2005
Programme
Friday, 4 November 2005
19.00 Dr Robert Anderson, President,
Association of Independent Libraries
Welcome
19.15 Dr Keith Manley, Institute of Historical Research
Libraries and infidel books 1790-1850
20.00 Refreshments
21.00 Close
Saturday, 5 November 2005
10.30 Registration and coffee
11.00 Chairman
Introduction
11.15 Martyn Everett, Saffron Walden Town Library Society
Books not bombs: Ervin Szabo: an anarchical librarian
12.00 Geoffrey Forster
Joseph Priestley: citizen of France, friend to the American Republic, enemy of the Birmingham mob, founder of libraries
12.45 Lunch
14.00 John Gray, Librarian, Linen Hall Library, Belfast
Hanging times at the Linen Hall Library: from an executed librarian to today's definitive archive of the Northern Ireland conflict
14.45 Marjorie Caygill
Cundill's Dictionary of explosives to be under lock and key: revolution and the British Museum Reading Room
15.30 Tea and close
The event costs £30 to attend all the events, including Friday evening talk and reception and Saturday seminar and lunch, £10 Friday evening only or £25 Saturday only. To book or obtain further information please contact:
Geoffrey Forster,
18 Commercial Street,
LS1 6AL
Tel. 0113 2453071 [log in to unmask]
Please make cheques out to the Association of Independent Libraries.
I hope some of you can make it. Best wishes,
Anna Martin
Bibliographic Services,
City University,
Northampton Square
London, EC1V, OHB
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Tel. 0207 040 5639
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