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Oxford Bibliographical Society
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Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚 Oxford, England oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 21
Hi Jason. You can email [email protected] for the link.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 21
Our next talk! (In person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 21
Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 17
Good spot! Amazing roll call of names.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 17
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!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 15
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!
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Blackwell's Rare Books @blackwellrare.bsky.social · May 7
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
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 23
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · May 8
This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 23
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 21
Ahem
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Apr 16
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.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 21
Wonderful! Thanks for posting, Liam.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 10
wonderful!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Apr 8
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...
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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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · Apr 3
A micro-essay on people with the same name:

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Repeating Names
A little while ago I was reading about the late 18th-century English clergyman, biographer and antiquary, Mark Noble (1754-1827), author of several works including Two Dissertations on the Mint and Co...
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · Mar 13
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).

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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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Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social · Mar 6
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
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Mar 5
THIS is happening on Thursday!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 27
ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Jan 20
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
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Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social · Feb 20
Calling all #HerBook crew.

Can confirm anything by Melanie is box office material
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
AND on Zoom! Contact sarah.cusk[at]lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom link
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Jan 20
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
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Feb 19
We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Feb 2
Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers.

Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Jan 31
THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Jan 23
Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...
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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · Jan 23
Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...
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