Meetings this year will all take place at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, EH1 2LJ. Technology permitting, we aim to livestream these meetings over ZOOM as well. Members will be sent ZOOM links in advance. Non-members are asked to book online attendance via Eventbrite – see our social media or email the secretary for details.

21 SEPTEMBER 2023. 5:45 P.M.
Dr Katherine Halsey
‘Book Borrowing in Scotland, 1750-1830’.

19 OCTOBER 2023. 5:45 P.M.
Dr Amy Blakeway
‘Print, Manuscript, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority: printing the parliamentary statutes of James V’.

24 NOVEMBER 2023 5:45 P.M.
Hope Doherty-Harrison
‘From Erfurt to Edinburgh: the Journeys of Fifteenth-Century Carthusian Compendia’.
Please note this meeting is on Friday instead of the usual Thursday

14 DECEMBER 2023. 5:45P.M.
Francesca Pontini
‘Two known readers in Early Modern Scotland: William Scheves and George Buchanan’.

18 JANUARY 2024. 5:45 P.M.
Alexandra Plane
‘Reconstructing the Scottish library of King James VI and I: buying, donating, and binding royal books 1570-1603’.

15 FEBRUARY 2024. 5:45 P.M.
Alastair MacDonald
‘Leighton Library: its history, collection and restoration’.

21 MARCH 2024. 5:45 P.M.
Annual Business Meeting for 2024 followed by
Christopher Sokol
‘Collecting early printed books’.
Followed by the Annual Dinner.
Contact the Secretary by 1st March 2024 if you wish to attend the dinner.

18 APRIL 2024. 5:45 P.M.
Dr Felicity Loughlin
‘Booksellers, Blasphemy & Belief in Nineteenth-Century Scotland’.

16 MAY 2024. 5:45 P.M.
Dr Iain Beavan
‘Chapbook images and thoughts in how they work’

ANNUAL VISIT, May/June 2024, exact date and venue to be advised. Contact the Secretary by 1st May 2024 if you wish to attend.