Oxford Bibliographical Society
@obs1922.bsky.social
Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
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Oxford, England
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Grants!
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
Grants
Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer ([email protected]) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…
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January 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Grants!
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
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Deadline extended! You have until Monday October 20th to put in an abstract! #queerbibliography #transbookhistory
@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.
The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...
Athens GA and online
The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...
Athens GA and online
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Deadline extended! You have until Monday October 20th to put in an abstract! #queerbibliography #transbookhistory
@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
Our next talk! (In person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Our next talk! (In person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.
Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.
New OBS members list from the 1920s, including yet-to-be-rumbled forger TJ Wise.
If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!
If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!
May 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New OBS members list from the 1920s, including yet-to-be-rumbled forger TJ Wise.
If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!
If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!
First time for the OBS at the lovely @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social in the Saatchi Gallery, London.
And look at the queue for us!
Come and join and collect your free book!
And look at the queue for us!
Come and join and collect your free book!
May 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
First time for the OBS at the lovely @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social in the Saatchi Gallery, London.
And look at the queue for us!
Come and join and collect your free book!
And look at the queue for us!
Come and join and collect your free book!
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This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees
May 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees
This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!
May 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!
Ahem
Bodley’s Librarian Falconer Madan asking Cambridge librarian Charles Sayle to give a talk to the Ox. Bibliographical Society (@obs1922.bsky.social) in 1922. The audience might include ‘some ladies to fill up vacant spaces’. Different times. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Add. 8548.
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ahem
Thanks for @thetls.bsky.social and to ASG Edwards for a generous review of our ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1922–2022, ed. David Rundle and H. R. Woudhuysen.
Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk!
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b...
Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk!
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b...
Ordering the University of Oxford’s literary treasure troves
“Oxford has been doing bibliography in one form or another for at least ten centuries”, Henry Woudhuysen observes in his introduction to this collection
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April 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thanks for @thetls.bsky.social and to ASG Edwards for a generous review of our ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1922–2022, ed. David Rundle and H. R. Woudhuysen.
Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk!
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b...
Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk!
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b...
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It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged).
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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Bookmarking Book Art – Adam Smyth
13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …
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March 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged).
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
books-on-books.com/2020/11/12/b...
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
books-on-books.com/2020/11/12/b...
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A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
March 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury
THIS is happening on Thursday!
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
March 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
THIS is happening on Thursday!
ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!
OBS / Balliol College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
February 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!
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We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
February 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!
OBS / Balliol College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
February 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
February 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
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Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers.
Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers.
Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.
Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...
January 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.
Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...
January 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...
OBS / Balliol College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
January 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
OBS / Balliol College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February
Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February.
Talk to us!
Talk to us!
January 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February.
Talk to us!
Talk to us!
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Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!
January 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!