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Forthcoming events

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

Informal music making
Early music at St Mildred's Church, Canterbury
Thursday 26 April 2012
Tuesday 29 May 2012

Recent events

Lecture
'Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp'.
Tuesday 7 February 2012, University of Kent.

Concert:
The Canterbury Waits
Saturday 19 November 2011, 7.30 pm.
Methodist Church, York Street, Broadstairs CT10 1PB

Symposium
'Peter Forsskål – Thoughts on Civil Liberty'
Thursday 7 April 2011,
Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden, London

Publications

‘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 (Chairman, Publications Committee, 2000–2002, 2005–2010; President, 2002–2004). Specialist in the history of printing in Europe (especially France) in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.	Forthcoming events Lecture 'Interpreting the Benefactors' Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century'. Tuesday 12 June 2012 Lambeth Palace, London Informal music making Early music at St Mildred's Church, Canterbury Thursday 26 April 2012 Tuesday 29 May 2012 Recent events Lecture 'Theodoor Poelman: a sixteenth-century editor of Latin poetry working in the printing house of Christophe Plantin in Antwerp'. Tuesday 7 February 2012, University of Kent. Concert: The Canterbury Waits Saturday 19 November 2011, 7.30 pm. Methodist Church, York Street, Broadstairs CT10 1PB Symposium 'Peter Forsskål – Thoughts on Civil Liberty' Thursday 7 April 2011, Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden, London Publications ‘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, and Chairman of Publications Committee Chairman, Friends of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Member of the Council of the Friends of the British Library.
	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
	Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) Author and tutor (with Sarah Gray) of two modules on Rare-Books Librarianship for BSc by distance-learning.
	University of Kent Honorary Senior Research Fellow (previously Senior Lecturer in French, retired August 2002).
	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
	Treasurer and WebMaster Events; Membership.
	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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