LRBS Online
As we can't welcome you to Senate House this summer, we have put together some exciting online content and useful resources that you can get involved with from home! Take a look at the LRBS Online page now, for blog posts, a quiz from some of our LRBS tutors, lecture recordings and a free online short course in Digital Scholarly Editing!
The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. London Rare Books School 2020 will take place from 15 -19 June (week one), 22- 26 June (week two), and 29 June - 3rd July (week three). Each course lasts five days. Bookings cannot be made for individual days. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until a course is full.
2020 Courses
Week 1 (15-19 June)
The Medieval Book (Michelle Brown) *COURSE ALMOST FULL* Lmited places left
Provenance in Books (David Pearson) *COURSE FULL* Waiting list only
A History of Maps and Mapping (Katherine Parker)
Collectors and Collecting (Cynthia Johnston)
Introduction to Digital Scholarly Editing (Christopher Ohge)
Week 2 (22-26 June)
Medieval Women and the Book (Michelle Brown)
The Early Modern Book in England (Giles Mandelbrote and Arnold Hunt) *COURSE FULL* Waiting list only
European Bookbinding 1450-1820 (Nicholas Pickwoad) *COURSE ALMOST FULL* Limited places left
The Printed Book in Europe 1455-2000 (Simon Eliot)
Digital Scholarly Editing: Advanced Methods (Christopher Ohge)
Week 3 (29 June-3 July)
The Book in the Ancient World (Marigold Norbye)
The History of the Book in India (Graham Shaw)
English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1850 (David Pearson)
The Modern Rare Book Trade (Angus O’Neill and Leo Cadogan)
Our courses are taught by internationally renowned scholars using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London.
Our courses are taught intensively in small groups of no more than 12 students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books. Each course consists of thirteen seminars amounting in all to twenty hours of teaching time spread between Monday lunchtime and Friday afternoon. There is timetabled 'library time' that allows students to explore the rich resources of the University's Senate House Library, one of the UK's major research libraries. There will also be an evening programme with an opening reception and talk, a book-related guided walking tour, and a reception hosted by a major London antiquarian bookseller.
Taking courses for credit
We offer postgraduate credit for LRBS courses at the Institute of English Studies, which is part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
The London Rare Books School is grateful to receive donations in support of its continuing mission to promote the study of all areas of bibliography and the history of the book. In particular, we welcome support that enables the subject to be embraced by a wider constituency of students within and beyond the academy.
