Le 25 novembre 2016 aura lieu au Chester Beatty Library à Dublin une journée d’étude intitulée “Book Collecting in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850 ». Cette journée est organisée par la Edward Worth Library, le Rare Books Group of Ireland, et le British Book History Research Network.
Programme:
Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Friday 25 November 2016
10h00 : enregistrement
10h30-11h30 : Ireland :
- Bernadette Cunningham (Royal Irish Academy): ‘Readers or collectors? Manuscripts and books in the lives of Irish scholars in late seventeenth-century Connacht’.
- Barbara McCormack (NUIM): ‘The Otway-Maurice collection: Ecclesiastical collecting in late seventeenth to mid eighteenth-century Ireland.’
11h30-12h00 : pause
12h00-13h00 : Scotland and Wales :
- Karen Baston (University of Edinburgh): ‘Two Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lawyers’ Libraries: Lord Tinwald, Lord Alva, and their Book Collections.’
- Thomas Lloyd: ‘Country House collecting in eighteenth-century Wales.’
13h00-14h00 : déjeuner
14h00-15h00 : England :
- Dr David Pearson (Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation): Motives for book collecting in late seventeenth-century England’.
- Dr Rebecca Bowd (Special Collections, Leeds University Library): ‘Lending Libraries in Georgian Leeds, 1768-1815.’
15h00-15h30 : pause
3.30pm-4.30pm : Keynote Lecture :
- Andrew Pettegree and Mr Arthur der Weduwen (University of St. Andrew’s): ‘The Library as a Weapon of State. The Fagel Collection in Dublin.’
17h00 : Launch of Dr Karen Attar’s The Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (London: Facet, 2016).
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Hanno Wijsman (4 novembre 2016). Journée sur les collections modernes dans les Îles britanniques (25 nov. 2016). Libraria. Consulté le 22 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qvut