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Forthcoming events

'Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp'.
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Bibliographical Society lecture, 5.30 pm, at the Society of Antiquaries, London.

Recent events

‘Online resources for provenance research’ Historic Libraries Forum: Provenance in Special Collections
Thursday 20 September 2012, Middle Temple Library

'Interpreting the Benefactors' Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century'.
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Lambeth Palace, London

Publications

‘A unidentified French incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys, [Lyon, c.1495–1496]’, The Electronic British Library Journal, eBLJ (2012) article 6, pp.1–9.

‘Book trade practices in early sixteenth-century Paris : Pierre Vidoue (1516–1543)’, pp. 335–46 in: The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. Malcolm Walsby & Graeme Kemp. (Leiden: Brill, 2011). xvi + 378 pp.

'Parochial libraries in Kent', Library & Information History, 27, no. 4 (December 2011) 239–45.
A paper given at a conference on 'Parochial Libraries: past, present & future' in the Great Hall, Lambeth Palace, London, Monday 26 April 2010.

‘Editions of the classics printed by the Officina Plantiniana in 24° format’, De Gulden Passer, 89, no. 2 (2011) 249–255. [PDF file (785 KB)]

	The Bibliographical Society Hon. Editor of Monographs (2010– ) Chairman, Publications Committee, 2000–2002, 2005–2010; President, 2002–2004. Member of the Library Committees of Canterbury Cathedral and Durham Cathedral Member of the Council of the Friends of the British Library.	Forthcoming events 'Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp'. Tuesday 15 January 2013 Bibliographical Society lecture, 5.30 pm, at the Society of Antiquaries, London. Recent events ‘Online resources for provenance research’ Historic Libraries Forum: Provenance in Special Collections Thursday 20 September 2012, Middle Temple Library 'Interpreting the Benefactors' Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century'. Tuesday 12 June 2012 Lambeth Palace, London Publications ‘A unidentified French incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys, [Lyon, c.1495–1496]’, The Electronic British Library Journal, eBLJ (2012) article 6, pp.1–9. ‘Book trade practices in early sixteenth-century Paris : Pierre Vidoue (1516–1543)’, pp. 335–46 in: The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. Malcolm Walsby & Graeme Kemp. (Leiden: Brill, 2011). xvi + 378 pp. 'Parochial libraries in Kent', Library & Information History, 27, no. 4 (December 2011) 239–45. A paper given at a conference on 'Parochial Libraries: past, present & future' in the Great Hall, Lambeth Palace, London, Monday 26 April 2010. ‘Editions of the classics printed by the Officina Plantiniana in 24° format’, De Gulden Passer, 89, no. 2 (2011) 249–255. [PDF file (785 KB)]
	Canterbury Archaeological Trust Trustee/director, Chairman of the Trust's Management Committee Previously Chairman, Friends of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust.
	University of Kent Honorary Senior Research Fellow (previously Senior Lecturer in French, retired August 2002). Specialist in the history of printing in Europe (especially France) in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
	Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Consultant (previously Secretary, 2002–2009), helping to develop CERL's provenance resources, on-line recording of previous owners of books in the hand-press period
	Treasurer and WebMaster Events; Membership.
	The Canterbury Waits Member of Canterbury early music group, playing alto shawm, renaissance recorders, renaissance flute, tenor crumhorn, tenor and bass curtal. Member of The Musick Cabinet
	DLitt conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 7 September 2004, (Degree of Doctor of Letters) in recognition of work as Editor-in-Chief of the Bibliographical Society’s Cathedral Libraries Catalogue project.

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