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  • Durham University Collections Fellowships, 2025–2026

    Deadline: September 3, 2025

    Durham University is delighted to invite applications from researchers for Visiting Fellowships of one month in duration. The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the historic collections of Durham, notably Archives and Special Collections at Palace Green Library, the Oriental Museum, the library and archives of Ushaw College (the former Roman Catholic seminary just outside the city), the Cathedral Library, and the archives of Durham Priory and Cathedral.

    The resources available to scholars include not only libraries and archives, but also collections of visual and material culture, […]

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  • RBS in Oxford: “A Match Made in Library/Book History Heaven”

    Photo of a group of scholars in front of a historical gold-toned stone library. They are looking up at where one man in the center is pointing off camera.

     

    This summer, Rare Book School hosted its first-ever international courses at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. H-195 Transmission of the Bible from the Beginnings to 1500 was taught by Peter Toth, the Cornelia Starks Curator of Greek Collections at the Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and former Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library. David Rundle, Senior Lecturer in Latin and Palaeography in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, taught
    M-60 Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History.  […]

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  • Study Days for Blooks

    Mindell Dubansky, Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library, would like to offer an opportunity for a small group of established scholars and educators in the area of book history, the book arts, and material culture to visit her private collection of blooks during a two-day study period. The collection includes over 1,000 objects made in the form of books, from the 18th century to the present.

    The event will occur in Tivoli, New York, on 12 and 13 September 2025.

    To apply, send a brief bio and description of your experience with the subject and the reasons you are interested in attending. […]

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