Institute of English Studies (IES)

25/04/2023

📖 LRBS: Movable Books short course at Cambridge University Library 📖

From Early-Modern anatomical flap-books and rotating ‘volvelles’ to Victorian children’s books with pull-tabs and twentieth-century pop-ups, the movable book has a long and fascinating history.

Using the unique collections at Cambridge University Library, this one-day intensive course traces the evolution and diverseuses of these unusual objects, giving students an opportunity to see and interact with some rare and remarkable examples.

📅 Thursday 4 May 2023 (10am to 5pm)
📍 Cambridge University Library
💷 £175 (£100 for students)

Sign up now! https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/lrbs-moveable-books

09/04/2023

📖 Black British Magazines 1948-2000 📖

This London Rare Books School online short course offers an introduction to the history of Black British magazines over a fifty-year period.

Although magazines are often referred to as ephemera, their materiality, production, and content provide a social and cultural history.

The course will consider how the dynamics of magazines show the changes that occurred in Black British life in the period after the Second World War.

📅 Weekly, 13 April 2023 - 4 May 2023, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
📍 On Zoom
💷 £175/ £100 student

Sign up now!

This London Rare Books School online short course offers an introduction to the history of Black British magazines over a fifty-year period. Although magazines are often referred to as ephemera, their materiality, production, and content provide a social and cultural history. The course will conside...

06/04/2023

2023 marks the 1350th anniversary of the birth of the Venerable Bede (c.723-735), one of the greatest scholars of the post-Roman West and the ‘Father of English History’.

Join us this summer for a special LRBS course, Bede and his books, taught by the fantastic Professor Michelle Brown between 3-7 July 2023.

Many questions about Bede, his world and his work are explored in this course, along with the cultural and historical context of the Golden Age of Northumbria.

This course is likely to be very popular, so register now! https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-books-school.

The London Rare Books School (LRBS) at the Institute of English Studies, University of London runs a series of intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House and online. LRBS runs short courses throughout the year, as well as a longer summer school in June....

05/04/2023

🖋️ Sign up to our one-day LIPS course, German Palaeography: 17th to 20th century 🖋️

This German Palaeography class is a reading class. Its aim is to familiarize students with a number of different handwritings. A variety of texts (in photocopies) will be examined and read: private correspondences, official correspondences of German courts and the Habsburg monarchy, petitions by individuals, replies by authorities, appeals, etc., from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/2023-summer-school -palaeography-17th-to-20th-century--dr-dorothea-mcewan-and-dr-claudia-wedepohl

📅 Monday 12 June
💷 £135 standard/ £95 student

LIPS runs across two weeks, from 5 June to 16 June 2023 in person at Senate House, London.

31/03/2023

We are pleased to announce that there is additional bursary funding to support attendance at the London Rare Books School this summer.

Bursaries cover the full fees at standard or student rate and the deadline for applications has been extended to 31 March 2023.

To apply, please complete the bursary questions on our registration form:

The London Rare Books School (LRBS) at the Institute of English Studies, University of London runs a series of intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House and online. LRBS runs short courses throughout the year, as well as a longer summer school in June....

31/03/2023

📚 🖌️ Ever wanted to learn more about artist's books? Or do you collect or create artists' books? 🖌️ 📚

Our London Rare Book School course, Artists Books explores the contexts in which artists’ books are made, published, sold and exhibited, as well as the current practices of bibliographic classification and cataloguing. The course is ideal for those who encounter artists’ books in the context of librarianship and curation.

🎨 19-23 June 2023
🎨Senate House, London
🎨Bursary applications open until 31 March!

Register now:

The London Rare Books School (LRBS) at the Institute of English Studies, University of London runs a series of intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House and online. LRBS runs short courses throughout the year, as well as a longer summer school in June....

31/03/2023

📚 Have you signed up to our London Rare Books school yet? 📚

LRBS runs across three weeks, from 19 June - 7 July 2023 and hosts a series of intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, London.

The full course list and descriptions for the 2023 School are on our website, and there's sure to be something for everyone! https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-books-school/2023-summer-school

Bursaries are available until 31 March 2023, apply now by completing the registration form.

LRBS runs across three weeks, from 19 June - 7 July 2023 in person at Senate House, London.