AMARC holds meetings twice or three times a year to discuss topics of interest to custodians and users. Subjects have included the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts; twentieth-century literary manuscripts, maps, security, exhibitions and loans, historical and political papers, and the themes listed below.
Meetings offer members the opportunity to share information, to discuss common concerns and advances in scholarship, and to widen and deepen professional and research skills. Travel bursaries can be available for attendance by full-time student members.
For the full programme and a booking sheet, click here
For a map showing public transport links, click here
Full programme here
Place: Arts Centre Lecture Theatre, University Park,
University
of
Nottingham
The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts
projects
| 10.00-17.00 | Exhibition:
Saints, Sinners and Storytellers: Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Nottingham |
Weston Gallery |
| 11.00 |
Registration and coffee | Angear Visitors’ Centre |
| 11.30 | Christopher de Hamel,
AMARC Chairman |
Introduction |
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11.35 |
Dorothy Johnston, University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collection |
The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: curatorial problems and opportunities |
| 11.55 | Thorlac Turville-Petre,
University of Nottingham |
Exploring the Wollaton Library Collection through a family archive |
| 12.20 | Ralph Hanna, Keble College Oxford |
The booklet in medieval manuscript cataloguing |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
Angear Visitors’ Centre |
| 2.00 | AMARC A.G.M. | |
| 2.10 | Alixe
Bovey, University of Kent |
Chaworth's Antiphonal: From Wiverton to Wollaton |
| 2.40 | Christopher
de Hamel, Corpus Christi College Cambridge |
The Ceolfrith Bible and the Wollaton Archives |
| 3.05 | Kathryn
Summerwill, University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections |
Women in the Wollaton manuscripts: developing a web resource |
| 3.30 | Final discussion | |
| Tea | Angear Visitors’ Centre |
Full details and booking form here
Date: Tuesday, 15 December
Place: Magdalen and other Colleges, Oxford
Historic Muniment Rooms, their Contents, and their Custodians
| 10:30 | Magdalen College | Coffee and tea |
| 11.00-12.30 | Presenations: | |
| John Steane, Oxford | Medieval Muniment Rooms, Furnishings and Information Retrieval Systems | |
| Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist, University College and
Magdalen
College Oxford Michael Riordan, Archivist, St John's College and The Queen's College Oxford |
'Bad and Dangerous Work': Scholarly Excesses in Oxford College Archives | |
| Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Darwin College, Cambridge | Some Cambridge Muniment Rooms | |
| 12:30 | Lunch (attendees will be supplied with maps and a list of central cafes etc.) | |
| Visits to Oxford Muniment Rooms (usually closed to visitors), including: | The Oxford University Archives Magdalen College Archives Merton College Archives |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 | Corpus Christi College | Tea |
Date: 7 August
Place: Prior's Hall, Durham
The Manuscripts of Bede
AMARC's summer 2008 meeting will offer the opportunity to explore Bede's manuscripts and the subsequent study of them only yards from the great man himself in Durham Cathedral. The meeting will be based in the Prior's Hall, which is just outside the cathedral's cloister. AMARC is grateful to Richard Gameson, professor of the history of the book at Durham University, and Joan Williams, Durham Cathedral Librarian, for facilitating this meeting.
For full details, including a map and a booking form (.doc file), click here.
Date: 10 December
Place: St William’s College, York
Historical Manuscripts and Archives: Their Significance for Culture
and
Learning
This year’s AMARC winter meeting will be held in the afternoon at St William’s College (www.conferenceatyorkminster.co.uk/), a mediaeval hall in York, hard by the cathedral. Attendance, including afternoon tea/coffee and biscuits, costs �20. Registration is from 1.30 pm, with the programme proper running from 2-5 pm.
Pre-Meeting Visits: Participants who arrive early are invited to visit the York Minster Library, in the adjacent cathedral grounds. A bus ride (No. 4) away from the city centre and St William's College lies the new home of the Borthwick Institute (www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr) on the University of York campus, where there is an exhibition organised in conjunction with the City of York Council, celebrating 150 year of civil registration.
This bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire has raised general awareness of the importance of historical documents, at the same time generating an increased level of public interest, if not excitement. This end-of-year meeting uses this theme as a basis to reflect on how expectations of access to such materials are changing. The panel includes speakers with experience as archivists, curators and academics. They will explore such challenging issues as:
| 1.30-2.00 | Registration (and tea/coffee) | |
| 2.00-2.05 | Christopher de Hamel, Chair of AMARC | Welcome remarks |
| 2.05-2.35 | Patrick Cadell, former Keeper of the Archives of Scotland | ‘Lost, stolen or strayed: archives as cultural symbol’ |
| 2.35-3.05 | Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University | |
| 3.05-3.30 | Refreshments | |
| 3.30-4.00 | David Pelteret, King's College, London | |
| 4.00-4.30 | Chris Web, Keeper of the Archives at the Borthwick Institute, University of York | The conservation and editorial aspects of the HLF-funded project to put the Lascelles family's West Indies slave plantation records online |
| 4.30-5.00 | Dorothy Johnston, Head of Special Collection at the University of Nottingham, and others | Panel discussion, with Q&A |
| 5.00-5.25 | Concluding remarks and Close |
To register, send your name and address and a cheque for
�20 (�15 for students)
payable to
'AMARC' (please write 'AMARC Winter Meeting' on the back) to:
Dr Roderic Vassie
c/o Microform Academic Publishers
Main Street
East Ardsley
Wakefield
WF3 2AP
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)1924 825700
F: +44 (0)1924 871005
E: rvassie@microform.co.uk
Date: 2-3 July
Place: British Library, London
Treasures: Known and Unknown
Please note that the Bedford Hours exhibit now on display will close at the end of the day on Monday 2 July. The exhibit will be open before the conference starts in the British Library Treasures Gallery from 9:30.
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| 14:00-14:30 | Eberhard K�nig | Questions Concerning the Bedford Hours |
| 14.30-15.00 | Jenny Stratford | Additions to the Bedford Hours and the Bedford Portraits |
| 15.00-15.30 | Catherine Reynolds | The Dates of the Bedford Hours |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Patricia Stirnemann | The Tr�s Riches Heures and the Bedford Hours |
| 16.30-17.00 | Roger Wieck | A Lombard's Legacy Lost: The Master of Walters 219, the Tr�s Riches Heures, and the Bedford Hours |
| 17.00-17.30 | Panel discussion | |
| 18:00 | Keynote address by John Lowden |
Researching Illuminated Manuscripts in the Digital Era |
| 19:00 | Reception | |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Registration | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Welcome | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | Anne Korteweg | The Master of the Trivial Heads |
| 11:15-11:45 | Philippe Palasi | Databases and Heraldry: Examples of Manuscripts from the British Library |
| 11:45-12:15 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 12:15-12:45 | Michael Gullick | Fragments of a Norman Bible and Other Fragments |
| 12:45-13:15 | Sandy Heslop | Title to be confirmed |
| 13:15-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | AMARC Annual General Meeting | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Stella Panayotova | East Anglian Manuscripts of the Early Fourteenth Century in the British Library |
| 15:00-15:30 | Mara Hofmann | The Perception of Unfinished Art Works: The Hours of Dionora of Urbino (Y. Th. 7) and other British Library Manuscripts |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| Session 4 | |
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| 16:00-16:30 | David Rundle | A Prince and his Readings : Findings from the Margins of the British Library Manuscripts from the Collection of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester |
| 16:30-17.00 | Final remarks | |
The following fees apply: �35 Standard; �30 AMARC Members; �15 Students/All others.
Date: 18 April
Place: Merton College, Oxford
Collections at Risk: afternoon meeting, Chaired by Dr Julia
Walworth,
Fellow Librarian of Merton College
| 2.00-2.15 | Registration | |
| 2.15-2.45 | Christopher de Hamel, Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | 'Hereford Cathedral's plan to sell the Mappa Mundi' |
| 2.45-3.15 | Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 'The Macclesfield Psalter' |
| 3.15-4.00 | Tea | |
| 4.00-4.30 | Graham Shaw, Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, The British Library | 'The Endangered Archives Programme: a new initiative to help safeguard the global record' |
| 4.30-5.00 | Alison Walker, Head of Programmes, National Preservation Office | 'Assessing and comparing risks to collections using the NPO Preservation Assessment Survey' |
Booking form (Word file: please print and send with payment)
Date: 12 July
Place: Arts Lecture Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of
Nottingham
AGM and meeting on the theme of Access and Restrictions in
Modern
Papers and Archives
A study day for archivists and historians, with particular reference to Data Protection and Freedom of Information in the Reading Room
| Edward Higgs | Politics of official information in England - an historical perspective |
| Nina Fishman | Political biography in the 20th century |
| Opportunity to view exhibition in
Weston Gallery: 'Hooked on Books. The Library of Sir John Soane, Architect, 1753-1837' |
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| Susan Healy | Moving into a Compliance Regime |
| Christine Woodland | Twentieth-century archives |
| Helen Wakely | Keeping a healthy perspective |
| Christine Penney | University archives |
| Panel Session with the speakers, chaired by Elizabeth Shepherd | |
Full details and application forms should ahve been received by AMARC Members with their copy of the May 2003 AMARC Newsletter. Further copies can be downloaded as a Word document here (42 KB).
Date: 5-6 January
Place: London: The Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Academy,
and the
V&A Museum
Manuscripts in Major Exhibitions: Flemish and Gothic
| Society of Antiquaries | |
| Janet Backhouse | A Question of Compromise: the Choice of Manuscripts for a General Exhibition of Medieval Art |
| Eleanor Townsend | Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547, V&A Museum |
| John J.G. Goodall | Manuscripts and Architecture |
| Scot McKendrick | Making 'Illuminating the Renaissance': Conception, Collaboration, and Compromise |
| John Lowden | Medieval Manuscripts on Exhibition: Reflecting on Purposes, Practicalities, and Possibilities |
| Royal Academy of Arts | Private view of the 'Illuminating the Renaissance' exhibition |
| V&A Museum | Private view of the 'Gothic' exhibition |
Date: 7 July
Place: The Library, Palace Green, University of Durham
Title: Provenance and Durham, preceded by the AGM.
This meeting is deliberately scheduled to occur in the same week as the
Early
Book Society Conference in Durham, in the hope that participants of one
will be
able to attend the other.
| Tours of the Old Buildings, including an exhibition | |
| Coffee and registration in Little Cosin | |
| AMARC AGM in Cosin Library | |
| John Hall | Welcome |
| Ian Doyle | Provenance and the Cosin Library |
| Lunch in Hatfield College | |
| David Rollason | The Provenance of the Liber Vitae: (BL, Cotton MS. Domitian VII): Researching Function and Provenance |
| Michael Gullick | The Origins of the Manuscripts of Bishop William of St Calais (1089-96) |
| Tea in Little Cosin | |
| Alan Piper | The Provenance of Durham Cathedral's Muniments 1400-1430 |
| David Pearson | Provenance Evidence from Bindings |
| Close and further opportunity to view the Old Buildings | |
Date: 4 April
Place: Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London
Title: Picturing places: collecting and interpreting
topographical
drawings
Timetable:
| Bernard Nurse | The Society of Antiquaries as patron and collector |
| John Farrant | Compiling a county inventory of topographical drawings: experience from Sussex |
| Paul Harvey | Souvenirs of landscape: the tourist picture book in Britain |
| Elizabeth Williamson | Particular places: the role of topographical drawings in their interpretation |
| Brett Dolman | "A Grimm view of Kirkby": topographical drawings and local history' |
| Sarah Wickham | Church Plans Online: the project, the resource |
| Display of topographical drawings in the Library | |
Date: 13 December, 1.30-6.30 p.m.
Place: The Warburg Institute, University of London
Title: Manuscripts and the Italian Renaissance: a conference
in
honour of the late Professor A. C. de la Mare
Timetable:
| Christpher de Hamel | The study of Italian Humanistic manuscripts in England from Cockerell to de la Mare |
| Nicholas Mann | Petrarch's English journey: the discovery of Renaissance Man |
| Albert Derolez | Ruling in Quattrocento manuscripts: types and techniques |
| David Rundle | Humanistic manuscripts owned by John Tiptoft |
| Ann Rycraft | "Often scruffy documents": looking for English humanistic script |
Dates: 21-22 September
Place: Trinity College, Dublin
Title: From Codex to Copyright: Literary Manuscripts and
Archives
John Scattergood The Middle English Manuscripts at TCD
Kathryn Johnson, 'Not without the express permission of the
copyright
holder': access, copyright and modern drama collections
Christopher Fletcher, Collecting the papers of living authors
Jude Dicken, 'Irreducible Plurality', the MSS and papers of
Alasdair Gray
and Muriel Spark
David Sutton, An update on the WATCH project [Writers and their
Copyright
Holders] and on the Location Register of English literary manuscripts
and
letters
John Banville, novelist, talk about his work and working methods
Reception in Long Room, TCD Library
Viewing of Book of Kells and the exhibition 'Turning darkness
into
light'
Exhibition of literary manuscripts from TCD library
Visit to Archbishop Marsh's Library, St Patrick's Close, Dublin,
introduced by the Librarian, Mrs Muriel McCarthy
Tour of the Chester Beatty Library
Date: 1 July
Place: Merton College, Oxford
Title: Manuscripts in the Time of Sir Thomas Bodley
AGM
The programme for the day.
David Vaisey delivering the first paper of the day, in front of the funerary monument of Sir Thomas Bodley in the ante-chapel at Merton College.
An exhibition of items relating to the theme of the meeting, put on specially for AMARC members in the Old Library, Merton College.
Both pictures used here by permission of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College
Date: 16 April
Place: National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Title: Word and Image: Manuscripts and Art at the National
Library of
Wales
Papers:
Daniel Huws, Illuminated manuscripts at the National Library of
Wales
Maredudd ap Huw, The Hengwrt Chaucer on CD-ROM
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, The archives of Gwen and Augustus John
Rhiannon Michaelson-Yeates, The hidden history of women artists:
Lily Whaite
and the Gwynedd Ladies' Art Society
Paul Joyner, An introduction to the Framed Works of Art database
Conducted tours of the building; exhibition of medieval manuscripts;
and an
exhibition of Library treasures will also be available
'Exhibiting Manuscripts', at the British Library, 11 December
'From Codex to Copyright', Trinity College, Dublin, September, postponed due to events in New York
'Matthew Paris Disbound', at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 3 July
'Manuscripts of the First Millenium', at the British Library, 5 December
AGM, at York Minster Library, 4 July
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