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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
Informal music making
Early music at St Mildred's Church, Canterbury
Tuesday 31 January 2012;
Thursday 23 February 2012
Recent events
Concert:
The Canterbury Waits
Saturday 19 November 2011, 7.30 pm.
Methodist Church, York Street, Broadstairs CT10 1PBLecture
'The development of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century'
Thursday 12 May 2011.
Canterbury Cathedral Archives.Symposium
'Peter Forsskål – Thoughts on Civil Liberty'
Thursday 7 April 2011,
Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden, London‘Book trade practices in early sixteenth-century Paris : Pierre Vidoue (15161543)’, 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.
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 WebMasterDLitt 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.Work in progress
Recent publications
Full list of publications
Books and libraries in Canterbury
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