Please Note: Unfortunately YBS has had to postpone the first three talks due to Covid-19 and we shall resume our programme once Government restrictions are lifted.
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14 October 2020
7.15pm AGM
Ed Potten
A SUCCESSION OF UNCERTAINTIES
Dating the Buxheim St Christopher
Ed Potten, Research Associate in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York will talk about the St Christopher Woodcut, long considered the earliest dated example of European woodblock printing.
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11 November 2020
Rob Shepherd
BINDING AND CONSERVATION
Rob Shepherd of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901, will discuss binding and conservation in the antiquarian book trade
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9 December 2020
Jim Walvin
AN AFRICAN AND HIS 18TH CENTURY MEMOIR
James Walvin is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York. How do we explain the success of the Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, published in 1789? The importance of the Narrative is an entrée to the wider story of slavery in the late 18th century.
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…information and scholarship, entertainment and sociability…
20 January 2021
THE WINTER DINNER
The Dean Court Hotel, York
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17 February 2021
Holly James-Maddocks
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED IN ENGLAND (c.1455-1500)
Dr HollyJames-Maddocks is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York.
Her talk discusses the illuminators who worked across the manuscript and print divide in late C15 England beginning with the 42-line Bible.
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17 March 2021
Hugh Haughton
EDITING ELIOT
Hugh Haughton is a Professor of English at the University of York, with particular interests in modern literature, Irish poetry, nonsense and life-writing. He will reflect informally on poetry and the archive, drawing on the experience of co-editing (with Valerie Eliot) T.S. Eliot’s letters.
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16 June 2021
MEMBERS’ EVENING AND SUMMER PARTY
Medical Society Rooms 7.00pm