Our next talk! (In person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.

Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.

New OBS members list from the 1920s, including yet-to-be-rumbled forger TJ Wise. If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!

First time for the OBS at the lovely @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social in the Saatchi Gallery, London. And look at the queue for us! Come and join and collect your free book!

This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees

This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!

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Thanks for @thetls.bsky.social and to ASG Edwards for a generous review of our ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1922–2022, ed. David Rundle and H. R. Woudhuysen. Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk! www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b...

A micro-essay on people with the same name: open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...

It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged). www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... books-on-books.com/2020/11/12/b...

A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked #libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury

THIS is happening on Thursday!

ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!

Calling all #HerBook crew. Can confirm anything by Melanie is box office material

9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!

We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!

Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers. Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.

Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...

OBS / Balliol College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February

Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February. Talk to us!

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

A micro-essay on categories

Short films of books I like -- number 1. Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse. The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html

This is happening tomorrow!

Next event! Artist Abigail Reynolds will be presenting LOST LIBRARIES, a film meditating on her solitary journey to 15 sites of former libraries along the Silk Road. Thu 28 Nov 6pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College — all welcome! abigailreynolds.com

Our next event: Peter Lindfield on the art of forgery in Georgian Britain -- a fascinating discussion of the multidisciplinary dimensions of fakery. Thursday 6 June, Balliol, Oxford. In person, or online. But no bots, please. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

The August and Venerable Oxford Bib Soc has made it to this cloudless venue: time to follow @obs1922.bsky.social

Stop Press! Until May 15, you can order our latest publication — Essays to mark the Centenary of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1922–2022, edited by DAVID RUNDLE and H. R. WOUDHUYSEN — at a special low pre-publication price. For details, email [email protected]