NEWS from the CHAIR Happy New Year from CILIP Library & Information History Group, and I Hope That All of You Had a Peaceful and Enjoyable Christmas Break

Series 4, no. 44 Spring 2019

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NEWS FROM THE CHAIR Happy New Year from CILIP Library & Information History Group, and I hope that all of you had a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas break. Our first newsletter of the year includes some very recent history, with Bill Petersen’s account of his recreation of William Morris’s library; an article on Charles Fraser-Mackintosh and his book collection from the 2018 Ollé Award-winner Melanie Mainwaring-McKay, who used her award to travel to Bournemouth and Edinburgh to look for evidence of Fraser- Portrait of Charles Fraser- Mackintosh's book collecting activities; and a Mackintosh, from Yachting and Electioneering in the write-up from our two bursary winner’s of last Hebrides by Hector Rose year’s Women and Print conference, Frances Mackenzie (1887) FM3257. Marsh and Beth Slater. Image credit: Melanie Manwaring-McKay with Sadly we say goodbye to Gregory Toth who is permission from Inverness stepping down as Events Coordinator. Library. See p. 2 for Although only in position for twelve months Melanie's article on research Greg threw himself into the role and ensured she conducted thanks to our that 2018 was a memorable year for library James Ollé award. history tours and visits, and we thank him again for his hard work - as a parting gift we also have Greg’s account of our committee visit CONTENTS to Leeds Central Library in November.

FEATURE ARTICLE: CHARLES FRASER-MACKINTOSH We are still looking for someone to take over P. 2 from Greg, so if you like organising events and VIRTUAL HISTORIC LIBRARY: WILLIAM MORRIS P. 4 are keen to promote interesting libraries, contact me via the Group's website or social NEWS P. 6 media pages (we're on Twitter and Facebook) LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS P. 8 to find out more about what the role entails CONFERENCES P. 10 and to apply. REPORTS P. 14 On behalf of the Library and Information AWARDS AND BURSARIES P. 19 History Group, I wish you all a very successful EXHIBITIONS P. 21 and productive 2019. PUBLICATIONS P. 22 Dan Gooding BACK MATTER P. 23 Chair, CILIP Library & Information History Group LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019

FEATURE ARTICLE he lost his seat, and thereafter devoted his time to his studies. He died at his Melanie Manwaring-McKay was the 2018 winner Bournemouth residence in of the James Ollé award, which allowed her to 1901. hunt for Charles Fraser-Mackintosh's possible THE LIBRARY PROVIDES A Bournemouth library. Fraser-Mackintosh’s book collection SNAPSHOT OF FRASER- MACKINTOSH'S WIDE- N SEARCH OF A LOST LIBRARY reflects his interest in I : the history of the RANGING INTERESTS CHARLES FRASER-MACKINTOSH’S Highlands and Highland BOURNEMOUTH LIFE AND BOOK families, encompassing local COLLECTION Highland history, including many Jacobite- related publications, a large collection of Gaelic Charles Fraser-Mackintosh (1828-1901), born texts, and locally published books. It contains near Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland, many legal papers and pamphlets bound into was a lawyer, property developer, books and parliamentary papers, a reminder parliamentarian and antiquarian writer. His of Fraser-Mackintosh’s varied career. collection of 5000 books was donated to the town of Inverness Scottish literature is also in 1920 by his widow, Eveline May, represented, by for example a and is now housed in Inverness number of James Hogg first Library. Eveline May donated her editions and Ossianic material. husband’s collection of papers, There are many notable books, primarily on Highland families, to including two incunabula. The the National Records of Scotland ninety volumes of newspaper in 1914. cuttings show Fraser-Mackintosh’s antiquarian interest and are Fraser-Mackintosh began his legal strongly biographical, a theme practice in Inverness in 1853 after continued in surviving personal an apprenticeship in Inverness books such as family bibles and and studies in Edinburgh. In 1864 childhood prizes. His printed he constructed Union Street, still catalogue is a snapshot of his an important thoroughfare in London and Inverness libraries in central Inverness today (fig. 2). 1885 and in the absence of Between 1863 and 1866 he Fig. 1: Charles Fraser-Mackintosh's notebooks or other details about bought two estates in Inverness bookplate. Image credit: Melanie book purchasing is a useful and rented out land, which Manwaring-McKay with permission resource in understanding Fraser- from Inverness Library enabled him to retire from the Mackintosh’s interests in book legal profession. He built collecting. Lochardil House (now a hotel) as his residence on one of these estates. After his defeat in the 1892 election, he spent increasing amounts of time in Bournemouth In 1874 he was elected Inverness Burghs continuing his studies and writing, which Member of Parliament and in 1876 married suggests there was a third library. The survival the 23-year-old Eveline May Holland in of books from his collection outside Inverness London. Around the time of his marriage, he Library supports this idea. Staff recently campaigned for the teaching of Gaelic in received a phone call from an auction house in Highland Schools. The highlight of Fraser- relation to a book with the Fraser-Mackintosh Mackintosh’s parliamentary career was his library plate, which – in the absence of the involvement in the Napier Commission, which Inverness Library stamp – was not part of the he called for to investigate the living conditions original accession. of the crofter and rural population in the I applied to the James Ollé Award in 2017 to Highlands and Islands. Fraser-Mackintosh was fund a research trip to discover what could himself appointed onto the Commission in have happened to the Fraser-Mackintosh’s 1883. He subsequently became the Crofters’ Bournemouth library and also to gain a deeper Party MP for Inverness County until 1892 when understanding of his life in London and

2 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 particularly Bournemouth. I used the a significant impact on my research. It enabled remainder of the award to visit Register House me to compare the lives of Fraser-Mackintosh in Edinburgh to examine the Fraser- and his wife in Bournemouth and in Inverness. Mackintosh papers deposited there for clues about the fate of his Bournemouth library and Experiencing Bournemouth and researching his plans for the future of his collection. I the residences where the couple had lived (old found no information about Fraser- maps were interesting for this) shed some Mackintosh’s libraries at Register House, but light on their lifestyle. The houses are no the visit did give me an insight into his overall longer there; the first, ‘Sans Souci’ near the collecting habits. town centre, appears to have been replaced by charming early 20th-century flats, while the I spent three days in Bournemouth. As well as second, ‘Brackloonagh’ in Branksome Park, looking for the two addresses in Bournemouth replaced by a larger block of flats next to a where Fraser-Mackintosh and his wife had supermarket. However, the original large lived, I searched newspaper and archival footprints of these sites was still apparent. material in Bournemouth and Poole for Some nearby examples of Victorian villas have specific information about the couple and survived and combined with the wide leafy their life there. Travelling home to Inverness boulevards allow one to imagine how the area via an overnight stay in London, I spent a day would have looked in the couple’s day. visiting their three London addresses and Kensal Green Cemetery, where Fraser- Mackintosh and his wife are buried. The visit to the cemetery solved the puzzle of why they were buried at Kensal Green, as their grave is adjacent to a plot belonging to Eveline May’s family (fig. 3).

In Fraser-Mackintosh’s testament dative, under the heading ‘England’, there is a list of stocks, shares and dividends – but no books. Eveline May’s will is detailed, as are the subsequent codicils, but they do not mention books either. Fig. 2: Union Street, from Invernessiana by Charles Fraser- It would appear that Fraser-Mackintosh left Mackintosh (1875) FM3289. Image credit: Melanie neither written nor verbal instruction Manwaring-McKay with permission from Inverness Library concerning the transfer of his book collection from any of his libraries. Local enquiries in Fraser-Mackintosh features frequently in Bournemouth, prior to my visit, turned up no Inverness newspapers, in some issues even leads. Finally, after much searching, I found appearing more than once in relation to information about the disposal of the different stories, for example about his Bournemouth house and contents after business affairs; his work as an MP; his Eveline May’s death in December 1923 in the antiquarian writing; or in relation to the many form of newspaper adverts. Her Bournemouth clubs and societies (such as the Clachnacuddin residence, in which she had lived as a widow Rifle Club, the local cricket club or the Gaelic for 23 years, went to auction on 23 April, four Society) of which he was a member, patron or months after her death. It had eleven office-bearer. He donated money to various bedrooms, excellent domestic offices, garage, good causes and these gifts are frequently stabling and rooms for a gardener or mentioned in the press. The quantity of chauffeur. It also had electric light, heat, and a material shows Fraser-Mackintosh as a leading telephone. Five days later, the furniture was public figure in Inverness and the Highlands also sold by auction. There was no mention of for a sustained period. a library or of books in the adverts. By contrast, there is no mention of him in the However, the research trip funded by the Bournemouth newspapers. The Bournemouth James Ollé award enriched my understanding Residents and Visitors Directory reads like a of Fraser-Mackintosh and his wife and this had who’s who of those in town any given week,

3 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 but Fraser-Mackintosh does not advertise his in Bournemouth and to see the kind of life presence. Other visitors feature – such as Eveline May led as a widow in Bournemouth. Kenneth Mackenzie who spent a This enhanced understanding of Fraser- companionable winter helping Fraser- Mackintosh and his wife, and confirmation of Mackintosh prepare the index of the second their lack of planning for the future of Fraser- series of Antiquarian Notes prior to Mackintosh’s libraries aids a deeper publication in 1897. This piece of information understanding of what remains of the original providing insight into Fraser-Mackintosh’s Fraser-Mackintosh collection as it is now in working methods, as well as highlighting Inverness Library. connections with the Mackenzies, an Inverness publishing family. MELANIE MANWARING-MCKAY WORKS AT INVERNESS COLLEGE UHI AND HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED HER MASTERS BY It was also interesting to see a different side to RESEARCH WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND Mrs Fraser- ISLANDS LOOKING AT THE FRASER-MACKINTOSH COLLECTION IN Mackintosh. She INVERNESS LIBRARY. THE CARD CATALOGUE CAN BE FOUND AT appears HTTPS://WWW.HIGHLIFEHIGHLAND.COM/REFERENCE-AND-LOCAL- occasionally in the HISTORY/SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS/. Inverness press. For example, she *** treated teachers to luncheon when the A VIRTUAL HISTORIC LIBRARY Sunday School went Fig. 3: Monument to Charles Fraser-Mackintosh in Kensal to Lochardil House Green Cemetery. Image credit: William S. Peterson gives an insight into the work for their outing one Melanie Manwaring-McKay with behind the recreation of William Morris's library. year. She opened permission from Inverness the Temperance Hall Library in Drummond, her THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM MORRIS first public appearance in Inverness as William Morris was known to his reported by the Inverness Courier in August contemporaries as an ardent socialist, a 1891, some 15 years after marrying Fraser- distinguished writer, and an influential Mackintosh. She listened from the landing of designer and craftsman, but he had another the stair in Lochardil House to children singing claim to fame that came to light only after his Gaelic songs in the hall, too ill to come further death: he was also the owner of one of the down the stairs (this in 1897). According to finest private libraries in England, with Fraser-Mackintosh, they had to travel south for extensive holdings in particular of fifteenth- the winter months due to Eveline May’s and sixteenth-century books and medieval rheumatic fever, as reported in the Inverness manuscripts. What is even more remarkable is Courier in October 1880. that he assembled most of this material only in the final decade of his life, when he became In Bournemouth, the newspapers reveal that passionately interested in the history of Mrs Fraser-Mackintosh gifted sums of money letterforms and woodcuts and was busying to Cornelia Hospital in Poole. This is probably himself with the creation of the Kelmscott the hospital in which she volunteered for the Press. Red Cross from 1916 to 1919. Even this glimpse of her story in Bournemouth The full story of Morris somewhat transforms her from a frail young WE FELT THAT as a book collector bride into a woman of independent means has never been told, WILILAM MORRIS'S and keeping better health than she did in though the Morgan PERSONAL LIBRARY Inverness. Library held a major DESERVED MORE exhibition devoted to ATTENTION This research trip helped me understand the subject in 1976, and Fraser-Mackintosh and his wife as real people. Paul Needham contributed an excellent essay Although I was unable to trace his to the catalogue of that exhibition and has Bournemouth library, it was useful to see the more recently supplied a chapter to Under the contrast between their lives in Inverness and Hammer: Book Auctions since the Seventeenth

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Century (2001) that in effect brings his survey collector, who quickly disposed of a large up to date. Nevertheless, my wife Sylvia Holton number of items that were subsequently Peterson and I felt that Morris’s personal offered at auction by Sotheby’s (London) in library deserved greater attention and that the December 1898. Because Henry Wellcome was best way to achieve that would be to create a the most active buyer at that sale, the digital checklist of the books and manuscripts Wellcome Library in London today has one of that he owned. the two largest collections of titles from Morris’s library, but of course the remainder of We therefore in early 2014 launched a website the lots in the 1898 auction are now widely entitled ‘The Library of William Morris: A scattered. The other substantial body of Catalogue’ material once owned by Morris is at the (https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/) and Morgan Library in New York, since J. Pierpont have been working steadily on it since then. So Morgan in 1902 acquired the second part of far we have approximately 2,400 entries (some Bennett’s collection. Unfortunately the of which contain more than one title). We are Wellcome Library sold hundreds of Morris’s reluctant to say that we have completed the books during the 1930s and 1940s, and even task, because new information continues to the Morgan has deaccessioned a few titles flow in – and we are still correcting and that were treated as duplicates. revising some of our earlier work – but it seems clear that by now we have found the During and even after Morris’s lifetime, while bulk of the material we want to include. the books were still at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, Cockerell and others regarded For each entry we are recording a brief record the collection – kept primarily in his study – of the book or manuscript itself but are also with almost religious awe. Though the books supplying additional information: whenever and manuscripts that once sat on Morris’s possible, a short paragraph about the shelves are now dispersed throughout the book/manuscript or a narrative of how Morris world, we find it satisfying to think that we acquired it, sometimes based on notes have at last reunited them, even if only inscribed by Morris in the book itself; the digitally, so that they can be consulted by history of its provenance (with present anyone with access to the Web. location if known); a list of references (including unpublished catalogues of the Morris library compiled during his lifetime); in WILLIAM S. PETERSON AND SYLVIA HOLTON PETERSON ARE many cases, a link to an online digital version; THE AUTHORS OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER: A CENSUS, WHICH and a reproduction of the relevant entry in the WAS PUBLISHED BY OAK KNOLL PRESS IN 2011. THEY ALSO Sotheby sale catalogue (December 1898) of a MANAGE A WEBSITE DEVOTED TO THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER, large part of Morris’s library. We have set up WHERE THEY ADD NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAUCERS AS the website so that it is possible to search by IT COMES TO LIGHT. WILLIAM PETERSON HAS ALSO RECENTLY centuries (or even by decades for the fifteenth STARTED A VIRTUAL RECREATION OF THE ORCADIAN WRITER and sixteenth centuries), by tags, and of GEORGE MACKAY BROWN (1921–1996). course by any words or phrases that appear in the entries. We have also decided to include books owned by Morris’s wife Jane and their two daughters before his death, on the assumption that they were at one time often mingled with his on the bookshelves of Kelmscott House and Kelmscott Manor.

Here is the description on our website of what happened to Morris’s books after 1896:

Though some of his books remained within the family, his executors, Sydney Cockerell and F. S. Ellis, arranged for a private sale of the rest of the library to Richard Bennett, a Manchester

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NEWS from pre-1773 inventories, and is an ongoing project. The sources include manuscript SUNY Press has announced a new series in the inventories from Belgium and Italy; on-line history of the book, publishing and the book library catalogues in the US and throughout trades, edited by Ann R. Hawkins, E. Leigh Europe; and on-site research at the Folger, Bonds and Sean Grass. This succeeds the Beinecke (Yale University), Princeton series in publishing history published by University, Brown University, and Georgetown Ashgate. The series editors invite submissions University Libraries. of 'argument-driven studies that foreground the materiality of texts' and they are especially *** interested in 'innovative interdiscplinary work The Leadhills Miners' Company Library that reshapes current methodologies or that holdings have been added to COPAC. Leadhills brings established methods to bear on new Miners’ Library is the principal collection of the subjects'. Proposals should be sent to Amanda Leadhills Heritage Trust, which manages the Lanne-Camilli, Acquisitions Editor at SUNY library. The library was founded in 1741 as the Press, at [email protected]. Leadhills Reading Society; is both the first and earliest subscription library to be founded in *** Britain; and is also the world’s first library for working people. Its stock peaked at around 4000 volumes in the early 20th century, and today its 2500 surviving volumes represent a history of working class reading from the early 18th century until the 1930s. The collection demonstrates the development of working class reading: initially focusing on religion, before expanding to cover secular non–fiction (including history, voyages and travel, and biography) and then fiction.

Alan May's reconstruction of the one-pull press. From makerpress.co.uk.

Alan May has created a website about his reconstructions of historical printing presses, from the Gutenberg Press to the Senefelder Pole Press, and his practice-based research into the history of printing techniques at www.makerpress.co.uk.

*** Bookshelf at the Leadhills Miners Library, from British Listed Buildings is licensed under a Creative The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Project is now live at https://www.jesuit- libraries.com/. It includes 600 volumes purchased with grants The EJLPP is the largest census of books from the Ferguson Bequest Fund between owned by European Jesuit institutions prior to about 1870 and 1930, and is the largest surviving collection of its kind. The collection the suppression. It includes both texts also includes local imprints, such as that of currently held in libraries and information

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John Wilson of Kilmarnock, Robert Burns’s first editors, reviewers and curators from across publisher. The library functioned as a lending the Anglophone world. Pulter's work engages library until the 1960s and is now a closed with natural philosophy, astronomy, religion reference and research collection. and politics and she experiments with a range of poetical forms. The website features *** different editions of her poems, which allows for a range of lenses through which her work If you happen to be in New York towards the can be read. The resource aims to be end of January, it is the annual Bibliography experiential and collaborative allowing for an Week from 22 to 26 January and the Grolier ongoing creative conversation. Have a look at Club has organised a series of events to mark http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/ it, from a reception and tour of their current exhibition to lectures and a booksellers' showcase. See https://www.grolierclub.org for a programme.

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Photographer Celeste Noche created a visual account of the second-hand bookshops, public COULD YOU BE OUR NEXT EVENTS libraries and private collections in 2017 when COORDINATOR? she was artist in residence during the Wigtown Bookfestival. As she says on her website: We are looking for an enthusiastic and 'What I wanted to explore with this project was creative organiser to join our committee how the books themselves, in simply existing as an events coordinator. From and taking up space, continue to be necessary organising a walk through the history of and relevant in a world that's moving faster London's library and literary past to and becoming less tactile every day'. Have a arranging a visit to one of Britain's many look at a selection of her photographs on her historic libraries, your role will be varied website: and an opportunity to get involved in http://www.celestenoche.com/blog/2017/scotl CILIP's longest-running special interest and-in-books. It featured on BBC In Pictures in group. October 2018, where you can find a few more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures- We meet twice a year in person and twice 45894216. online to discuss committee matters. One of the in-person meetings co-incides *** with the AGM. We also organise an annual conference and adminster the James Olle award to support library and information history research, an annual prize for the best essay in library history published in the preceding year, and bursaries for post-graduates and early career professionals to attend conferences on the theme of library and information history.

If you are interested in applying, please get in touch with our Chair Dan Gooding The Pulter Project: Poet in the making is a new at [email protected]. open-access resource which can be used to explore the verse of Hester Pulter (1605-1678). Rather than offering an authorised edition, the website creators present possible texts and interpretations within a transparent editorial framework. It features contributions by

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LECTURES AND EVENTS Tuesday 2 April 2019 Alice Strang (Scottish National Gallery of SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES Modern Art, Edinburgh): `The Publisher, the Architect and the Sculptor: The Building of Seminar convenors: Giles Fountainbridge Library, Edinburgh’. Mandelbrote (Lambeth Palace PART Library); Dr. Keith A. Manley SPONSORED BY This icon of modern Scottish architecture (National Trust); Dr. Raphaële opened in 1940. Funded by the publisher THE LIHG Mouren (Warburg Institute); Thomas Nelson Jnr, designed by the architect Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen John A. W. Grant, and with friezes on its façade Mary). by the sculptor Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson, Fountainbridge Library was a Location: The Warburg Institute, Woburn purpose-built, state-of-the-art library and Square, London, WC1H 0AB community hall which embodied the most far- Talks start at 17:30 unless stated otherwise. sighted concerns of architects, librarians and social policy makers of the inter-war period. Tuesday 5 February 2019 Dr Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham): External and internal photographs and press '"So let me study": John Donne's Library.' coverage recording the progress of this major civic commission show the planning, The recent discovery of new books from construction and successful completion of a Donne's library prompts fresh questions about library which opened during the blackout and Donne's habits of study, the relationship which still serves the community today. between his reading and writing, and his attitude to learning, old and new. Saturday 6 April 2019 Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) will Tuesday 5 March 2019 lead a new library walk commencing at 11:00. Kyle Roberts (Loyola University, Chicago): '21st This walk will be repeated on Tuesday 14 May Century Digital Approaches to Rethinking 19th in the evening. Century American Catholic Libraries.' Full details TBA in the New Year. Digital platforms, sources, and tools have changed the way we study libraries over the Tuesday 7 May 2019 past few decades. The Jesuit Libraries Julian Pooley (Surrey Museums, Woking): Provenance Project '"Working tools almost daily in demand": The (https://jesuitlibrariesprovenanceproject.com/) Libraries of John Nichols and His Family.' at Loyola University Chicago is a collaborative digital research project that uses these digital The Nichols family lived and breathed books. affordances to write a new history of They printed them, reviewed them, sold them, nineteenth-century American Catholic libraries borrowed them and collected them. Writing and, in so doing, rethink American Catholicism. his autobiography in 1850, the architectural historian, John Britton, paid tribute to the The Provenance Project brings together ‘Spacious printing office of my venerable and students, faculty, and librarians to uncover the kind friend, John Nichols, who indulged me ambitious, co-ordinated movement by with the use of many books from his valuable European-born Jesuits to found a network of topographical library, but none were to be Catholic colleges across the United States in taken away, for he justly saw them as his the century following the restoration of the working tools almost in daily demand’. order in 1814. At the heart of these colleges were libraries. The libraries they created That may have been the case with some remind us of the centrality of print to volumes of particular value but, as I hope to nineteenth-century Catholicism and the show in this paper, people did borrow books transnational, hybrid identities of American from the Nichols family, just as the Nichols’s Catholics, balancing allegiances to the state, borrowed books from their own friends, fellow homeland, and the global Catholic Church. researchers and colleagues in the trade.

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Books were not simply working tools, they Monday 11 June 2019 were material and physical agents of 18:00pm – 20:00pm information, friendship and leisure and it will Location: Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E come as no surprise that they feature very 7HU regularly and prominently in the Nichols correspondence. Elisabeth Grass: '''Five Minute Books", Fine Bindings, and The Wind in the Willows: Sir Tuesday 14 May 2019 Courtauld Thomson’s Library at Dorneywood' Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) will Elisabeth Grass first worked with rare books lead a repeat of her latest library walk (first as a bookseller at Bernard Quaritch Ltd. She is given on 6 April) commencing at 17:30. now a freelance cataloguer within the book trade and for National Trust Libraries, and is Full details TBA in the New Year. studying for a doctorate in history at the University of Oxford. *** *** BOOK COLLECTING SEMINAR MEDIA HISTORY SEMINAR PROGRAMME Monday 12 February 2019 18:00-20:00 2018-2019 Location: Room 246, Second Floor, Senate Tuesday 5 February 2019 House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU The Periodical Press: A View from France Elma Brenner, Deborah Coltham, Edwin Rose: Location: Room 243, Second Floor, Senate 'Collecting science books' House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Dr. Elma Brenner is subject specialist in Evanghelia Stead, Université de Versailles medieval and early modern medicine at the Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines, ‘Media Culture and Wellcome Library. Deborah Coltham (ABA) is a the Periodical Press: Raising a Few Points on specialist dealer in rare antiquarian books in Methodological Issues’ science and medicine. Edwin Rose is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and Monday 12 March 2019 winner in 2015-16 of that university's Rose Editing Reference Works on Print Media Book Collecting Prize. Location: Room 243, Second Floor, Senate Monday 9 April 2019 House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 8:00pm - 20:00pm Location: Gordon Room, G34, Ground Floor, Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E ‘The Magazines of Modernism: Challenges and 7HU Perspectives’ Christopher Adams, Leila Kassir, Brooke Andrew King, University of Greenwich, Palmieri, Soofiya: 'Queer books: an academic, ‘Switching: Creating Reference Works for an artist, a collector and a librarian discuss the Nineteenth-Century Serials’ field' Descriptions of these talks are posted at Christopher Adams is a book collector and https://mediahistoryseminar.wordpress.com/ playwright, and administrator at the Institute of English Studies. Leila Kassir is Research Librarian in British, US & Commonwealth Literature at Senate House Library, University of London. Dr. Brooke Palmieri is a historian of radical publishing, and edits Printing History, the journal of the American Printing History Association. In 2018 Brooke founded Camp Books, specialising in LGBTQ+ and gender- nonconforming history.

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CONFERENCES unprecedentedly vast audiences, mandating the creation of new modes of communication DOMINUS HIBERNIE/REX HIBERNIAE: and production, but also triggering fears about the loss of social cohesion and nostalgia for PRE-MODERN IRELAND, 1200-1801 perceived lost identities. By 1830, Samuel National Archives, Kew, London Taylor Coleridge felt empowered to contend Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 March 2019 that ‘Roads, canals, machinery, the press, the periodical and daily press [and] the might of From the late-twelfth-century conquest to the public opinion’ had fundamentally union of the kingdoms, Ireland was a key reconfigured political and social discourse. constituent element of the dominions of the This international conference aims to produce monarchs of England and Great Britain, their a new understanding of the underappreciated royal title and identity. Over six centuries innovations and diffusions that occurred institutions, policies and attitudes developed during the 1820s. to enable the crown to tackle the challenges of governing Ireland and its inhabitants. The Further information: https://1820s.net/ records which such processes generated are voluminous and afford rich, multi-faceted *** insights into the administration of pre-modern Ireland, its political and legal culture, its NETWORKS: THE CREATION AND geography, environment, society, economy CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM and trade. As the custodian of the records of FRANKLIN TO FACEBOOK royal government, The National Archives arguably holds the world’s most important American Philosophical Society Philadelphia, collection of records of relevance to the history PA of pre-modern Ireland but it remains under- Thursday 6 - Friday 7 June 2019 utilised. The American Philosophical Society Library is In bringing together historians of medieval and organising an interdisciplinary symposium that early modern Ireland, this symposium aims to will explore the ways that social, scientific, and facilitate discussion of continuity and change intellectual networks have influenced the across six centuries of Irish history by putting pursuit of 'useful knowledge' from the into sharper focus the collections with eighteenth century until the twenty-first relevance to pre-modern Ireland at The century. The symposium is inspired by the National Archives. It also aims to consider the American Philosophical Society’s recent archival context and history of this vast digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal collection. records and by its involvement in 'The Full programme and registration: Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dominus- Science and Technology Portal Project.' hibernierex-hiberniae-pre-modern-ireland-1200- 1801-registration-51646675597 For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/ *** *** Call for Papers THE 1820S: INNOVATION AND WALLS, WELLS, OR WELCOMES: DIFFUSION LIBRARIES IN THE LIVES OF IMMIGRANTS, OLD AND NEW University of Glasgow Thursday 11 - Friday 12 April 2019 ALA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Thursday 20 - Tuesday 25 June 2019 The reign of George IV was a decade of profound transformations, during which The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the technological, generic and ideological American Library Association (ALA) seeks innovations opened up culture to papers for its Research Forum at the 2019 ALA

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Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., June 20- must register to attend the conference. 25, 2019. The theme of the Forum will be re- Questions? Contact Dr. Cindy Welch at examining the relationship between libraries [email protected]. and immigrants/immigration, in any country, any region of the world. ***

One of the most divisive topics in our current DECODING EUROPE: TECHNOLOGICAL society is immigration policy and the issues PASTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE and concerns stretch backwards throughout library history as well. Libraries have been University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg present in the lives of immigrants in the Thursday 27 – Sunday 30 June 2019 United States (and potentially other countries) as institutions that were unfamiliar or The Tensions of Europe conference is unwelcoming (walls), sources of wisdom organised biennially by an interdisciplinary (oftentimes through immigrant children), community of scholars who study the shaping and/or a welcome to a new community. of Europe through the lens of technology and material culture. We welcome fruitful Possible topics include but are not limited to: interactions between historians of technology • Acculturation, libraries, and the American and scholars from all other fields of the middle class; humanities and social sciences • The role of immigrant children in helping (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/). The 9th their parents become introduced to libraries Tensions of Europe Conference will be and to reading; organised by the Luxembourg Centre for • Specialized services introduced and Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), developed to support immigrants’ information University of Luxembourg. needs; • Working with the “foreign population,” in Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the urban or rural settings; Digital Age investigates the way in which our • The development of classification systems approach to European technological pasts is that were affected by immigration; influenced, shaped and may even be • Readers’ advisory services for immigrants; transformed in the digital age, and, conversely, • Children’s and/or youth services and the how the digital present and future of Europe is “foreign born;” the result of long-term historical trajectories • Libraries and internment/detainment camps. and patterns. LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers For information on the academic and social of all backgrounds, including students, faculty, programme of the conference, affiliated and practitioners. Proposals are due on events and keynote speakers, see the February 15, 2019. Each proposal must give conference website: http://www.toe2019.org/. the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter's one-page vita. Also, please Registration opens 20 March 2019. indicate whether the research is in-progress or *** completed. The abstract should include a problem or thesis, as well as a statement of OWER AND THE EDIA significance, objectives, methods/primary P M sources used for the research, and Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne conclusions (or tentative conclusions for works Tuesday 16 – Friday 19 July 2019 in progress). Scholars of media history have not just been LHRT Research Committee will select up to concerned with analysis of the individuals, three authors to present their completed work institutions and elites exerting control, but at the Forum. Completed papers are due May also with how the media has represented, 15, 2019, and the Research Forum will likely perpetuated or challenged power structures. occur on Sunday, June 23, 2019. All Taking place in the immediate aftermath of presenters will be notified of the submission Britain’s planned exit from the European outcome no later than May 31, 2019, and Union, the conference invites scholars and

11 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 practitioners from all relevant disciplines to with a title plus a separate 75-word take part in a timely conversation about the biographical statement. relationship between power and the media, • Panel Proposals: A set of three or four 250- from the film and broadcasting industries and word abstracts with titles plus a general title the press, to new media, social media and for the session. Include 75-word biographical advertising. In addition to keynote statements for each participant. presentations, the conference will include film screenings, events geared towards PhD and Graduate students and independent or retired early career scholars, social events, and a scholars may indicate on the form that they roundtable on the subject of academic power wish to be considered for RSVP travel awards relationships. for attending the conference and presenting a paper. All those giving a paper at the RSVP Conference attendees are expected to be conference are required to be members of the members of IAMHIST, and there will be an Society. opportunity to join at the time of registration. For further information, please visit: RSVP is an interdisciplinary and international http://iamhist.net/2018/11/call-for-papers- association of scholars dedicated to the iamhist-conference-2019/ exploration of the richly diverse world of the *** 19th-century press. RSVP makes available a range of grants and fellowships to assist Call for papers researchers. To find out more about the WORK/LEISURE, DUTY/PLEASURE Society, visit its website at http://rs4vp.org/ Annual Conference of the Research Society for *** Victorian Periodicals, University of Brighton Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 July 2019 Call for papers LET’S GET PHYSICAL: MATERIALITY IN Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or PECIAL OLLECTIONS panels of three or four related papers that S C address any aspect of the Victorian periodical Annual RBSCG conference, Royal Welsh or newspaper press. Proposals relevant to the College of Music and Drama, Cardiff Conference theme of Work/Leisure, Wednesday 4 - Friday 6 September 2019 Duty/Pleasure would be particularly welcome. Topics that might be considered include, but The RBSCG Committee invites proposals for are not limited to: presentations, panel sessions, and participant- • The 'work' of making periodicals (authorship, driven sessions from all areas of the cultural editing, printing, illustrating, designing). heritage sector. We would particularly like to • The depiction of work or leisure in the hear from speakers within Wales and the West periodical press. of England. • The responsibilities of the press. • The pleasures of reading or writing for Possible subjects include, but are not limited magazines and newspapers. to: • Book production processes including • The growth of entertainment as an aspect of papermaking, letterpress and other printing the periodical press. techniques, binding, and modification of books • Specialist periodicals on sports and pastimes. after publication • Carnal pleasures – sexuality, pornography. • Physical evidence of ownership and use • Gastronomy, dining out, drinking. • Movement, storage, and display of • Travel and tourism, the rise of the seaside collections resort, the pleasures of opulence. • Restrictions on physical access to collections • Holidays and social commingling • Teaching with collections as physical objects • Using digital surrogates to express physical Proposals should be submitted before 1 attributes • Recording information about physical February 2019 at the RSVP application portal attributes, including cataloguing issues at https://rs4vp.fluidreview.com/ • Dealing with unusual formats Applicants will complete a short information Presentations share case studies, reports, form and upload the following documents to ideas, or scholarly research relevant to the the portal: conference theme. Presentations will last for 35 minutes, plus time for questions. • Proposals for papers: A 250-word abstract

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Panel sessions typically include 3-4 speakers from its very outset been a transnational who have put together their individual enterprise. Today, in part due to digitization, research/work into a cohesive panel. You may the production, distribution and consumption also submit an individual paper that, if of books are becoming increasingly accepted, will be placed by conference international, as books are made accessible organizers into a cohesive panel of 3-4 worldwide. How does this tangle of speakers. Panel sessions will last 60-90 transnational and transmedial characteristics minutes, with each speaker presenting for 10- inform the way we understand and study 20 minutes, followed by discussion and books and other printed materials? In what questions. ways do local and global conditions shape what may be termed literary citizenship; how Participant-driven sessions use audience the act of writing, publishing and reading can member participation to drive the momentum foster social identity and agency? of the proposed idea or topic of interest. The goal for this session is that the audience The concluding conference of Literary Citizens contributes to the topic that is facilitated by of the World (LitCit), an international research the proposer(s) in some fashion. Proposals project financed by the Research Council of should include a session timeline, proposed Norway and hosted by the National Library, equipment requirements* (e.g. notepads, will be held in Oslo 25–27 September 2019. flipcharts, easels, etc.), at least one learning The conference is one in a series of events objective for the session (e.g., ‘Attendees will marking the 500th anniversary of printed ____’) and at least one, but no more than three, books in Norway. The first ‘Norwegian’ book takeaways for post-conference development. was printed in Paris in 1519, in Latin. Today, These sessions will be allotted 30-60 minutes. most ‘Norwegian’ books are printed in the Baltics, and the holdings of the National *Please note that RBSCG will make every effort to Library are digitized and made publicly accommodate equipment requests, but cannot accessible from around the world. The guarantee availability. intermediate 500 years of Norwegian book Each proposal will be evaluated on its history display similar transnational and relationship to the conference theme, transmedial characteristics. relevance of the topic for RBSCG members We welcome papers (20 min) that explore and other interested attendees, and potential aspects of both the local and the transnational impact on the field and practice of special nature and impact of the book or other collections and archives. printed materials. Our interests are historical If you are invited to present, your place at the as well as contemporary, and we welcome conference for the day of your presentation, topics related to Norway, the Nordic countries one night of accommodation, and travel costs or beyond, from the 16th century onwards. within the UK will be paid for by CILIP RBSCG. We also invite reflections on how the history of information packaging and control, If you would like to present, or discuss an idea (re)distribution, entertainment, reading for a presentation, please email a brief practices and reading communities can help summary of your idea to 2019 Conference us to reflect on similar patterns and Organiser Christine Megowan at phenomena shaping society today. [email protected] with “Call for Proposals” in the subject line. Please indicate Deadline for submission of abstracts (200–300 the content type and projected length of your words): 15 February 2019 talk. Submissions are due no later than Friday, Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2019 8 February 2019. Please email abstracts, or any enquiries regarding the programme, to [email protected] *** Call for papers Further information: ITERARY ITIZENSHIP https://www.nb.no/en/forskning/literary- L C citizens-of-the-world-litcit/ National Library of Norway, Oslo Wednesday 25 – Friday 27 September 2019 The history of the book is one of global and complex encounters, and the book trade has

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REPORTS winning competition was chosen from twelve entries. It was won by George Corson, whose Greg Toth, until recently LIHG Events Coordinator, plans included dividing the buildings into two gives us a summary of a tour around the sides: the 'commercial' side and the 'public' wonderful Leeds Central Library, while Frances side. The former was used for various Marsh and Beth Slater attended the Women and municipal businesses, one of them was the Book conference assisted by one of our collecting tax, and there is a clear evidence of bursaries. these activities by the main entrance (fig. 1). The public side of the building was occupied THE MANY SIDES OF by the Free Public Library, which consisted of a LEEDS CENTRAL LIBRARY Reading room, Lending Library and Reference Library. The Reading Room was located in the CILIP Library and Information History Group Tiled Hall at the front of the building. Sally conducted its Annual General Meeting 2018 at pointed out that the building went through the Leeds Central Library on Monday 7 several changes since its opening; libraries and November. As part of the AGM, group functions came and went. In 1888 the Tiled members were invited to join a guided tour of Hall was converted into a Sculpture Gallery the host institution. Read on for a summary of and the Reading Room was transferred to the the tour around this fascinating library. Art Gallery and renamed the News Room. By 1918 this News Room had been converted into The visit was generously organised by Antony Ramm, Librarian-Manager at the Local and the Commercial and Technical Library. Family History Department. Our host was Sally However, the cramped conditions meant that Hughes, Assistant Librarian Manager in the in 1955 it was moved back into the Tiled Hall. same department, who gave us an The Music Library was moved into the Tiled Hall space in 1998 but was only there for one year, when the Central Library building closed for refurbishment and rewiring. The 1950s panelling and bookcases were removed, along with the false ceiling, revealing as well as the tiling, the inevitable damage caused by the work done in the 1950s. Tiles and glass throughout the building are Grade II listed and anyone visiting the place will understand why. They are absolutely stunning! The most original features can be witnessed in the Local and Family History Reading Room. The room has mirrors at either end, making it look much bigger (fig. 2). If you ever have the chance to visit the library for yourself, do look out for the unusually highly placed foundation stones, the four Victorian book lifts numbered 96/a-d, and numerous local Leeds Potts clocks around the building. Fig. 1: The roundel above the stained glass in After the tour, we headed to the Library’s the entrance hall to the Leeds Central Library shows the collection of taxes. Photo credit: Leodis Room, where Rhian Isaac, Collections Gregory Toth. Manager, introduced us to some of their library treasures. It was enthralling to see introduction to the building and its history. examples from their Wing Collection, a collection of more than 800 books and Our journey started on 17 April 1884 with the pamphlets, mainly from the seventeenth opening of the Municipal Building by Alderman century and largely comprising English Civil Edwin Woodhouse, Mayor of Leeds. It took War tracts, including many from Yorkshire. seven years to construct the building and the

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WOMEN AND THE BOOK

On 26 October, the Institute of English Studies hosted Women and the Book, a one-day symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of women’s first access to the University of London. The symposium demonstrated that women have been involved in the world of books since at least the Middle Ages. The diverse range of papers explored women as readers, owners, collectors, librarians and editors, spanning literary, cultural and book history.

David Pearson kicked off the conference with Fig. 2: The Reading Room in Leeds Central Library. his plenary session 'Women as Book Owners The mirrors above the gallery bookcases at either in the Seventeenth Century', based on his end, making it look even more spacious than it 2018 Lyell Lecture of the same name, which already is. Photo credit: Gregory Toth. can be watched at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectures-2018- My favourite item was a plagiarised version of book-ownership-stuart-england-women-and- Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist from the Henry books-17th-century. Collection, a collection of extremely varied items, including ballad books, children’s Pearson acknowledged that this is a long- literature, fairy tales, prints and sketches. Oliver Twiss was written by 'Bos' (derived from neglected area of research, pointing out that Dickens’s own pen name Boz), believed to be out of over 100 articles in The Library about Thomas Peckett Prest, a British hack writer, private libraries only one is about a woman’s journalist and musician. It library. One reason for the lack of research is, was published by Edward of course, the lack of evidence: property, Lloyd, who used these including books, was not recorded in women’s pirated editions to pioneer names. However, Margaret Hobie, Frances 'penny issue' fiction. Rhian Edgerton, Margaret Heath, Elizabeth Sleigh, pointed out that Dickens’s the Countess of Bridgwater, and Elizabeth early work fell victim to Freek were named by Pearson as significant more plagiarism than any owners of books. Several instances of men English literary work then or since! Penny versions leaving 'appropriate' books to women sold as many as 50,000 throughout the century were also detailed, as editions a week, probably was the existence of embroidered bindings, or outnumbering the sales of 'Jewels for Gentlewomen', as evidence of Dickens’s originals (fig. 3). women’s reading and ownership of books in the seventeenth century. We did not have time to Fig. 3: Dickens plagarised look at more items but I and parodied: Oliver Twiss The first panel of the symposium focused on am curious to find out by 'Bos' (ca. 1840). Photo the early modern period. Marie-Louise more about their Gott credit: Gregory Toth. Coolahan and Mark Empey from the National Bequest, a collection of over 600 books on early University of Ireland, Galway spoke about English gardening and botany. I shall therefore women’s book ownership and early modern be coming back to Leeds very soon! women’s texts between 1545 and 1700. For more information about the Leeds Central Their work for the ERC-funded project looked Library, visit in a systematic way at auction catalogues, https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2014/04/11/leeds- central-library-tiled-hall and inventories and book lists. Empey studied 37 https://secretlibraryleeds.net/collections/. individual owners and carried out quantitative analysis on the documents to help answer *** questions about which texts women

15 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 purchased, how they circulated, and the extent show floral and animal motifs; caterpillars to which women authors were collected. might stand for Charles I whilst butterflies symbolise the Restoration, though the insects Empey raised the important difference could also represent religious messages about between book ownership and true life after death. Vast skill is undoubtedly engagement with the text, and the pair also necessary to create embroidered spoke about some of the methodological bookbindings yet the craft’s pejorative status challenges of their research. The inventories as ‘women’s work’ means they have been and booklists in the sixteenth century were neglected from academic study. used to catalogue objects of monetary value, which would not necessarily have included Stephanie Fell’s paper 'Women’s hidden work: manuscripts; there might be frustrating innovative and creative descriptive practices references to 'A Bible and other books'. for the Lisa Unger Baskin collection at the Collective ownership, where both husband Rubenstein Library, Duke University' and wife’s names are inscribed, was also an concluded the panel on the early modern issue, alongside the difficulty of interpreting period, though this the inventories of widows, whose possessions collection is a would have been attributed to men if survived testament to by their husband. women’s work from the 13th to Next, Gilly Wraight spoke about sixteenth and the 20th century. seventeenth-century embroidered bookbindings and their potential deeper Fell spoke about readings. As a gendered activity there is a her work as Rare tendency to assume that embroidery was an Materials expressive output for repressed women in the Cataloguer to early-modern period. highlight women’s relationships with However, Wraight argued that the elaborate books in the library covers are not mere ostentation, but that their catalogue and motifs conceal meaning. Not many examples maximise their of embroidered bindings survive. Silk textile discoverability. Fig. 4: Isotta Nogarola, from Jacopo objects are not only at risk from damp Philippus Bergomensis, De claris environments and pests, but the threads can Fell documents mulieribus (Ferrara, 1497). Image catch and tear easily. In addition, embroidered women’s book reduced. Made available under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence, from bindings would often have valuable elements production, https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein such as pearls and gemstones sewn into the ownership and / bingham/lisa-unger-baskin. design; over time, they have often been consumption deconstructed to recover the precious metals through Library of Congress subject headings and elements. Attribution of embroidery is (LCSH) but also develops local headings to usually speculative and it is difficult to catalogue the contributions of women distinguish between amateur work and those translators, illustrators, cover designers and produced in workshops, making the context of other participants in book production beyond these objects more complicated. The intricate, authorship. For example the LCSH ‘Women hand-produced bindings are both time- bookbinders’ is intended for texts about consuming and expensive to create. Thus, women bookbinders rather than recognising Wraight believes, they are suffused with the work of women bookbinders. meaning and were intended to be ‘read’. Thus Fell and her colleagues reveal the mass Texts chosen for embroidered bindings were of contributors to book production that are often devotional, but the embroidered books ordinarily hidden in library catalogues; in an of psalms belonging to Matthew Wren, Bishop extensive collection of women’s history books of Ely, might have been a gift of love during his and material, this inevitably involves bringing period of imprisonment in the Tower of the contribution of women especially to light. London. Embroidered bindings frequently Their cataloguing work involves a great deal of

16 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 research to create new name authorities for Islamic book collection has been exhibited, the Name Authority Cooperative Programme. whereas Greene’s own collection has had little scholarly attention. Adding URIs links authorities between databases but, as the audience lamented, it is The next talk came from Alicia Carrol, entitled shame that these detailed and beneficial local 'Collecting Resilience: New Women and the headings only ever stay local. Not many Revival of Herbal Texts in the Twentieth libraries have the time, money or resources to Century’. Carrol illustrated the re-emergence dedicate to cataloguing above and beyond of the herbal from the 1910s, beginning with usual standards, but the work that Stephanie Agnes Arber’s Herbals. It was women, Carrol and her colleagues working on the Lisa Unger argued, that were responsible for this re- Baskin collection are doing should be emergence. These women reclaimed herbals applauded by all interested in the recognition as part of the history of botany, staking their of women’s contributions to book production (albeit overlooked) place in natural history. and circulation in the most holistic sense. These books made locally-grown herbs popular again, particularly during the War The second panel focused on ‘Women Striking when medicinal plants regained attention. Out’. First of all, Stephanie Meek spoke on '"A Some of these women, including Arber and Species of Impertinence": The Censored and Eleanour Rohde, wrote about the material Censoring Woman Reader'. Meek explained culture of old herbal. Women’s involvement in the role of Mudie’s Select Library in prohibiting writing new herbals is significant, Carrol the reading of certain books whilst illustrated, because of the gendered line encouraging the reading of others. between the garden and medicine.

She then concentrated on Geraldine Jewsbury, The third panel of the day concentrated on a literary advisor to the publisher Bentley & women reading in institutions; the Son, who appraised the suitability of contributions from Sara Charles and Sophie manuscripts for publication. On the face of it, Defrance respectively explored readership in a Jewsbury seemed to solidify patriarchal medieval female Cistercian priory and at standards, confessing a prejudice against school libraries in England and France at the women’s novels, but as Meek pointed out it is turn of the 20th century. more complex than that. Jewsbury was part of an effort to raise literary standards, and Sara Charles introduced us to London, British therefore raise the standards of women’s Library, Cotton MS Claudius D. iii, which was reading material. She approved selections written for the small female community of from Plato as an antidote to the ‘trash and nuns at Wintney Priory, and can thus be used twaddle’ provided for women and advocated a case study in female medieval literacy and for works that honestly reflected women’s attitudes towards it. Female liturgical texts lost lives. their value after the dissolution of the monasteries and it is suspected that many In the second paper, Karen Winslow told us have been destroyed; this manuscript may be about ‘Belle da Costa Greene: A Frustrated an anomaly in that it survived, though perhaps Lover’s Islamic Book Collection’. Belle da Costa books such as this were common features of Greene was a fascinating woman who female religious houses at the time. eventually became Librarian at the Morgan Library in New York. After seeing an exhibition The text is written in Latin and English, and its of Islamic art in Munich in 1910, Greene readers would have needed a mathematical became fixated and began collecting Islamic education to interpret the calendar tables, books for the Morgan. When J. P. Morgan’s son implying a solid education amongst the small took over the library he stopped the community of nuns at Wintney. Female acquisition of Islamic books, but Greene’s readers are addressed directly in passages personal collection continued to grow. related to reading and scholarship indicating the nuns’ education. Sara argued that the Winslow ended her paper by pointing out that manuscript is evidence of an educated group Bernard Berenson’s (who was Greene’s lover) of women, contradicting the traditional

17 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 44 Spring 2019 portrayal of medieval women as poorly Austen did plan and work at her novels. Halsey educated. used the discussion between Mitford and Barrett Browning to illustrate how Austen’s Defrance’s talk explained that secondary work and her own image has been distorted education was organised for girls from 1867 in by her male relatives and the historically France, though it was invariably Catholic and patriarchal literary critics. the standard between religious and state education was extensive. To promote better Having studied women’s literature and quality schools, women teachers were feminist theory and worked with women’s employed and there was an acknowledgement library collections, we both relished this that books and libraries were also essential to symposium whose seemingly strict focus improve education. produced a brilliant variety of papers addressing the interaction of women and Public libraries in France at this period were books in every possible sense. The event located in town halls or lycées and were used marked the 150th anniversary of women’s increasingly by women as school libraries education at the University of London, but it helped build their confidence as users. proved both that this is recent history when it comes to women’s relationship with the book, In England, school libraries and reading rooms and also that this rich history of women and were also created to improve deprived the book still offers much to be discovered for schools. To aid her research on libraries in scholars of library, information and book England, Defrance used school histories and history. Thanks to LIHG whose bursaries kindly reports which were much more common than enabled to attend the symposium! in France. There is evidence of classroom libraries in Sheffield and records show that FRANCES MARSH IS SENIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT AT THE SCOTT Brighton School held a library of 1000 volumes POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CAMBRIDGE AND IS COMPLETING including six donated by Ruskin. She also AN MA IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES AT UCL. found women’s autobiographies useful, though such personal histories are peculiar to BETH SLATER DID AN MA IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT a certain class of women who felt entitled to EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LAST YEAR. write a personal history. They suggest that girls schools in England had a culture of reading aloud and together, and illustrate that independent reading, facilitated by school libraries should not be underestimated as it is linked to higher levels of education.

The closing talk was '"The Austen Controversy": Women Readers and Jane Austen', delivered by Katie Halsey. Halsey began by refuting the ‘sanitised’ version of Austen which was perpetuated by her brother and nephew.

The majority of the talk then focused on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russel Mitford’s arguments over Austen. Mitford was a great admirer of the author, holding Austen up as a model ‘literary lady’. Browning, on the other hand, found her work ‘subdued’, rejecting Austen because she did not take the work of writing seriously enough – although, as Halsey pointed out, the image of Austen spontaneously writing was a myth created by her family after her death. In actual fact,

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AWARDS AND BURSARIES The Special Collections Research Center is the principal repository of rare books, manuscripts, and archives in the University of IBRARY ISTORY SSAY WARD L H E A 2019 Chicago Library. The LIHG’s Library History Essay Award is an Rare books and early manuscripts in Special annual prize of £350 for the best essay on Collections include Homer, Byzantine Gospels library history published in, or pertaining to, and liturgical texts, Renaissance humanism, the British Isles, within the previous calendar court and manorial documents of the Bacon year (i.e. 2018, in the case of the 2019 prize). family, history of science and medicine, Essays should embody original historical printed works of Frederick Chopin, historical research on a significant subject, be based on children’s books, European Jewish life and original source materials if possible, and use culture, and English and American modern good composition and style. Essays showing poetry. evidence of methodological and historiographical innovation will be particularly Archives and modern manuscript strengths welcome. include early Ohio River valley history; Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and the An author may put himself/herself forward for Civil War era; social sciences and social welfare the prize, but may submit only one essay per policy; physics, astrophysics, and geophysical year. In addition, any member of CILIP may science; theology and history of religions; nominate a published essay for consideration. Poetry magazine and modern poetry; post- The entries will be judged by a panel of three: World War II nuclear policy, Cold War intellectual politics, and world • Chair of the LIHG constitutionalism; urban history; Chicago • Awards Manager of the LIHG medical history; and Chicago jazz. • External assessor at the invitation of the LIHG Committee Up to $3,000 of support will be awarded to help cover estimated travel, living, and Nominations (and any enquiries relating to the research expenses. Support for beginning prize) should be sent to LIHG’s Award Manager scholars is a priority of the program. by 30 June 2019: Applications from underrepresented groups are encouraged. Dr Dorothy Clayton Awards Manager, LIHG The deadline for applications is 4 March 2019. Tel: 0161 638 6429 Notice of awards will be made by March 29, Email: [email protected] 2019, for use between June 10, 2018, and September 27, 2019. *** Complete information about applying for a ROBERT L. PLATZMAN MEMORIAL Platzman Fellowship is available on the Special FELLOWSHIPS Collections Research Center webpages: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library ***

The University of Chicago Library invites RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS applications for short-term research fellowships for the summer of 2019. Any The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & visiting researcher, writer, or artist residing Manuscript Library is now accepting more than 100 miles from Chicago, and whose applications for our 2019-2020 research travel project requires on-site consultation of grants: University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, and rare Travel grants are available for the following books in Special Collections, is eligible. research centers and collections:

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• Sallie Bingham Center for Women's ESIDENTIAL ESEARCH IBRARY History and Culture (Mary Lily Research R R L Grants) FELLOWSHIPS • John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Durham University (UK) has established a Culture number of fellowships for researchers to • John W. Hartman Center for Sales, spend up to three months in Durham to make Advertising & Marketing History use of the extensive archives and special • History of Medicine Collections collections held at Palace Green Library, • Human Rights Archive Durham Cathedral and Ushaw College. • Harry H. Harkins T’73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Some fellowships are associated with specific History collections, such as the Durham Priory • Photographic Research Grants Co- recreated project. Sponsored by the Archive of Documentary Arts Although there are no current calls for Each will award up to $1,500 per recipient to applications, the aim is to have a round every fund travel and other expenses related to year. Keep an eye on visiting the Rubenstein Library https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/researchfellowships/ Anyone who wishes to use materials from the designated collections for historical research is *** eligible to apply, regardless of academic status. Writers, creative and performing EXCITING COLLABORATIVE PHD artists, film makers and journalists are OPPORTUNITY welcome to apply for the research travel grants. The University of Liverpool and the National Trust invite applications from suitable Research Travel Grants support projects that candidate for a fully-funded AHRC present creative approaches, including Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD Studentship historical research and documentation starting in October 2019. projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational Focusing primarily on five NT libraries in the initiatives, documentary films, or other North West of England and North Wales multimedia products and artistic works. All (Dunham Massey, Erddig, Lyme Park, Tatton applicants must reside beyond a 100-mile Park and Townend), the successful candidate radius of Durham, N.C., and may not currently will investigate important issues relating to the be a student or employee of Duke University. social, cultural and political history of books in the long eighteenth century. Grant money may be used for: transportation expenses (including air, train or bus ticket The project will be supervised by Professor charges; car rental; mileage using a personal Mark Towsey (History) and Professor Elaine vehicle; parking fees); accommodations; and Chalus (History) at the University of Liverpool, meals. Expenses will be reimbursed once the and by Tim Pye and Nicola Thwaite at the grant recipient has completed his or her National Trust. research visit(s) and has submitted original receipts. The deadline for applications is 13 February 2019. A fuller description and application The deadline for application is 31 January criteria (the award is open to UK/EU applicants 2019 by 5:00 PM EST. Recipients will be only), see announced in March 2019. Grants must be https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduat used between April 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020. e-research/studentships/books-for-everyone- national-trust-libraries-and-their-reading- More inforation: communities-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/g rants-and-fellowships/

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XHIBITIONS if they used the coded steps described in E these books to guide their experiments, they SAPPHO TO SUFFRAGE: WOMEN WHO would discover the Elixir of Life. At the heart of DARED this process of transformation is the Open until 22 February 2019 Philosophers’ Stone. Treasury, Weston Library The doctors knew if they succeeded in making The Greek poet Sappho (c.620 – c.550 BC) from the Elixir or gold that they could be in danger, the island of Lesbos was widely considered as there were plenty of jealous rivals who one of the greatest lyric poets of her era. would happily harm their financial and Almost lost for nearly two millennia, her physical wellbeing to get their hands on these poetry survives mainly in fragments; hers is wonders. one of the earliest personal voices of world literature. Explore one of Sappho's poems and Will you be the first successful person to the works of other inspirational women in this decode these texts in over 300 years? Join us exhibition celebrating the achievements of in the search for the Elixir of Life. women who dared to do the unexpected. Find out more at https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats *** -on/upcoming-events/2018/mar/sappho-to- suffrage LAWRENCE OF OXFORD Until 1 May 2019 *** Wednesdays from 14:00 to 16:30, private viewings and group tours outside these time SEARCHING FOR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE: THE by appointment only. Magdalen College Old Library, Oxford MYSTERIES AND LEGACIES OF ALCHEMY Until summer 2019 Magdalen Libraries and Archives are delighted Open Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 16:30 to announce the opening of our new Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh exhibition. Lawrence of Oxford marks the Free entry culmination of two years’ intensive collecting around one of Magdalen’s most celebrated Old Members, T.E. Lawrence (better known as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’). Co-curated by Dr Rory McCarthy (Fellow by Examination) and Daryl Green (Librarian), Lawrence of Oxford will explore the influence Magdalen and Oxford had on this enigmatic figure’s early life. It will look at his efforts in the Arab campaign during the First World War, and his later political involvement with the region. It will also A view of the exhibtion, featured in the examine his work as an author, and those in announcement on the RCPE website. Oxford whom he directly influenced. Fuller details of the exhibition can be found on It is hard for us in the 21st Century to see the the College website: world as the alchemists did. When the books http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and- and manuscripts on display in this exhibition archives/news/new-exhibition-lawrence-of- were written and illustrated there were no oxford/ strict boundaries between alchemy and what we now know as chemistry or medicine. Alchemists believed that the codes and puzzles contained in these texts mapped out the way to transform base metals like tin and lead into gold. Even better, they believed that

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UBLICATIONS Autoren. Ergebnisse der Forschung. Mit einer P Personalbibliografie seit 2006 Albrecht Hoppe (Berlin): Das 'Schottische JOURNALS Moorhuhn' – oder: Vom Nutzen und vom Niedergang der 'Zeitungsberichterstattung' The latest issue of the journal Logos, has now preußischer Verwaltungsbehörden been published online: (1722–1918) https://brill.com/view/journals/logo/29/2- Holger Böning (Bremen): Von 'Lügen-Presse', 3/logo.29.issue-2-3.xml 'Fake-News' und 'Medien-Mainstream'. Gedanken zu einigen Neuerscheinungen zum The broad theme of this special issue is 'New Thema und zum Zustand der gegenwärtigen Directions in Print Culture Studies'. From Presseberichterstattung Victor Gollancz to Kim Kardashian-West, the Rudolf Stöber (Bamberg): Kommentar zur articles in the issue touch on a range of Miszelle von Holger Böning historical and contemporary topics. *** With contributions from Jonathan Roscoe (Oxford Brookes), Kate Macdonald (University BOOKS of Bedfordshire), Elizabeth Lovegrove (Oxford Brookes), Alexis Weedon (University of A. Hobbs, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Bedfordshire), Leah Henrickson Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900, (Loughborough University), Stevie Marsden https://www.openbookpublishers.com/produc (University of Leicester), and Samantha Rayner t/835 (UCL). V. Kuttainen, S. Galletly and S. Liebich, The Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte Transported Imagination: Australian Magazines (Yearbook for Communication History), vol. 20 and the Geographical Imagination of Interwar (2018), available from http://www.steiner- Australia. New York: Cambria Press, 2018. verlag.de/titel/61581.html ISBN: 9781621964155 Contents: K. Macleod, American Little Magazines of the fin FORUM de siècle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Massimo Rospocher (Trent): What Is the Transformation. Toronto: University of Toronto History of Communication? An Early Modernist Press, 2018. Perspective Daniel Bellingradt (Erlangen): Annäherungen K. Montalbano, Government surveillance of an eine Kommunikationsgeschichte der religious expression: Mormons, Quakers, and Frühen Neuzeit Muslims in the United States. Routledge, 2018. Maria Löblich / Niklas Venema (Berlin): ISBN: 9781138306714(Hb); 9781315141961 (e- Kommunikationsgeschichte in der book) Kommunikationswissenschaft S. Murray, The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, ARTICLES Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era. Simone Zweifel (St. Gallen): Ein Blick hinter die Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. ISBN: Produktion von Kompilationen im 16. 9781421426099 Jahrhundert am Beispiel Johann Jacob Weckers Alexandra Schäfer–Griebel (Mainz): Die G. Proot, D. McKitterick, A. Nuovo and P.F. Arbeitspraxis im Nachrichtendruckgewerbe. Gehl (eds), Lux librorum: Essays on books and Religionskriegsnachrichten im Heiligen history for Chris Coppens. Augetur series, 1. Römischen Reich um 1590 Flanders Book Historical Society, 2018. Xl + 240 Heiko Droste (Stockholm): Das Geschäft mit pages, 33 illustrations; 24 x 14 cm. ISBN: Nachrichten. Ein barocker Markt für soziale 9789082927603. To order, send an email to Ressourcen Goran Proot at [email protected] MISCELLANIES R. Robbins and C. Webster (ed.), Through the Klaus-Dieter Herbst (Jena): Der pages: 250 years of the Leeds Library. Leeds: Schreibkalender der Frühen Neuzeit und seine Leeds Library, 2018

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BACK MATTER

The LIHG newsletter is produced three times a year. It contains short articles, news items, exhibition and conference announcements, notices of awards and bursaries, and reports on conferences, exhibitions and site visits. We also highlight a selection of new publications.

We are always looking for feature articles in the field of library and information history; descriptions of little-known historic libraries; information about projects with a significant historical component; new resources (print and digital); news items; and calls for papers. We also welcome reports on conferences on any subject in library and information history and reviews of exhibitions. Recent graduates are invited to submit brief descriptions of their research projects.

Please contact the editor, Dr Danielle Westerhof at [email protected], if you would like to have news, events, exhibitions or calls for papers included in the newsletter. Proposals for feature articles (length of article max. 2000 words) and descriptions of graduate research projects (max. length 750 words) should be accompanied by short CV.

Deadlines for contributions:

6 May 2019 (Summer 2019) 2 September 2019 (Winter 2019) 16 December 2019 (Spring 2020) Information about events, conferences and bursaries is also disseminated via the CILIP website (http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special-interest-groups/library-information-history-group) or follow us: Twitter: @CILIP_LIHG Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5645439476/