Michael Durrant

Posters are up! 🎉

Some pics from this week’s student visits to @stationerscomms.bsky.social Archives (ft. Dr Ruth Frendo) and the British Jesuit Archives (ft. @ies-sas.bsky.social LAHP CDA student Ted Simonds)

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Thank you! ☺️

A huge congratulations to our wonderful graduating cohort! 🎉

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I’m told that the book has been sent to print and that it’ll be out on 31 March 😭

It was great to get to talk about print culture at the National Gallery’s ‘At the time of Wright of Derby’ salon series, which coincides with the Wright exhibition. 3 more exhibition member talks coming up: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/at-th...

Coming soonish…

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JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb

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Introduction to Handwriting in England c. 700-1700 Introduction to Handwriting in England c. 700-1700

Want something to look forward to in these dark days? Booking is open for the London International Palaeography Summer School in June. We have a range of in-person, 5 day courses, including Introduction to Handwriting in England c.700-1700 👇 #MedievalSky

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In case you missed it, here is a set of academic book proposals that I wrote and that succeeded. I do not claim them as exemplars of the genre, but offer them for any interested parties to see what form they took.

Update! Alongside the exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social also seeks to appoint a Printer in Residence to produce a contemporary response to the exhibition and to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the project: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social

Read more about the London Rare Book School on the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers website!

"LRBS offers a vibrant and exciting way in which to study the history of the book, learn new skills, and meet book-minded people."

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An Introduction to Book Collecting and Book Cultures This course will pursue a panoptic view of the growth of book culture and the practice of book collecting.

I’m teaching the history of book collecting at London Rare Book School this summer. It will be fun! 👇

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The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond See the first book in which Caxton was ever involved, one of the books he printed in England, and examples of later genres, typefaces and illustrations for which he paved the way.

‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, a collab between @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social celebrating 550 years of printing in England, opens @senatehouselib.bsky.social on 26 Feb 2026! www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

Inscription 6 on cuts/tears ft. academic articles + art by Dave Beech, Stephen Emmerson, Lucio Fontana, Jo Hamill, Simon Morris, Buzz Spector, Carolyn Thompson, Patrick Wildgust, Steven Zultanski.

Cover: Abigail Reynolds' St Paul’s

Advance copies: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

A 🧵on all the courses on offer for our London Rare Books Summer School.

All information about the summer school, bursaries and booking information can be found here:

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Stevenson Lecture 2026 | Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books

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Stevenson Lecture 2026 | Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books

The next Stevenson Lecture (25 Feb 2026) will be delivered by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social (University of Oxford). ‘Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books’ will be free to attend but booking essential. Link below 👇

Kind of obsessed with John Tregortha’s printer’s device #stoke #burslem #potteries

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

✨ Booking is now open for the 2026 London Rare Books School! ✨

EARLY BIRD OFFER
21 November - 23 January: Use code LRBS10 to receive 10% off the booking fee at the checkout

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A big thank you to Mark Wiltshire and the team Christie’s for a fantastic show and tell today with @ies-sas.bsky.social History of the Book students. Featuring a guest appearance from Joseph Moxon, an array of gorgeous medieval manuscripts, plus a (the!) tube map #bookhistory

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That’s really helpful. Thank you, Mark!

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

An embarrassment of illuminated riches!

Ok, this is fantastic!

Brilliant - thank you 😊

Many thanks - that’s really helpful!

Many thanks!