Call for Participants: Early Modern semi-public libraries workshop

In association with the IES History of Libraries Seminar
7th November 2023 at Lambeth Palace Library, London, SE1 7JT

This half-day event aims to bring together researchers at all stages, from a range of settings, who work on Early Modern libraries that were in some form public. The event hopes to spark conversations and foster connections between participants, prioritising discussion alongside short traditional papers.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Studies of individual libraries such as school, town, ecclesiastical, institutional, and private libraries with a public element
• The ways in which an early modern library could be public
• Gifting books and building early modern semi-public libraries
• Early modern public libraries and religious, intellectual, political, or civic cultures o Preservation of and access to early modern semi-public libraries today
• Semi-public libraries as sources and methodologies for researching them

To express interest, please email a summary (max. 250 words) of your research in this area and a few lines about yourself to Anna-Lujz Gilbert at anna-lujz.gilbert@ucl.ac.uk by 30th June 2023.