Current Programme 2024–2025

Programme 2024 – 2025

In-person meetings this year will be held in one of three venues:

AUGUSTINE: Iona Room, Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL

MELTING POT: The Melting Pot, 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8DL

U OF E LIBRARY: Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh Main Library, George Square, EH8 9LJ – meet at main entrance to be signed in

One meeting will be held exclusively virtually on ZOOM.

We welcome members’ feedback on the new meeting locations; please contact the Secretary with any comments or concerns.

Technology permitting, we aim to livestream all in-person meetings as well via zoom. Members will be sent zoom links in advance. Non-members are asked to book online attendance on Eventbrite – see our social media or email the Secretary for details.

19 SEPTEMBER 2024. 5:45 P.M. AUGUSTINE
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison
‘From Erfurt to Edinburgh: the Journeys of Fifteenth Century Carthusian Compendia’.

17 OCTOBER 2024. 5:45 P.M. AUGUSTINE
Dr David Pearson
Book Owners Online and the building of a research tool on historic Scottish book owners’.

21 NOVEMBER 2024 5:45 P.M. AUGUSTINE
Prof David Finkelstein
‘Publishing the Sensation of the Year: Blackwood’s and the Battle of Dorking (1871)’.

12 DECEMBER 2024. 5:45P.M. MELTING POT
Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
‘Anatomy of a Song: Identifying the songs in Allan Ramsay’s The Tea-Table Miscellany‘.

16 JANUARY 2025. 5:45 P.M. ZOOM
Alessandro Grelli
Title to be confirmed‘.

20 FEBRUARY 2025. 5:45 P.M. U OF E LIBRARY
Anna Pike
‘Rewriting the Script: the manuscripts of Esther Inglis’.

20 MARCH 2025. 5:45 P.M. U OF E LIBRARY
Annual Business Meeting for 2025 followed by
Thomas Rhys Clarke
‘Collecting the Left Book Club’.

10 APRIL 2025. 5:45 P.M. MELTING POT
Jill Dye
‘Dispersals from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland library and archive collections’.

22 MAY 2025. 5:45 P.M. MELTING POT
Dr Andrew Frayn
‘Publishing the War Books Boom, 1928-30’

ANNUAL VISIT, May/June 2025, exact date and venue to be advised. Contact the Secretary by 1st May 2025 if you wish to attend.