Announcements

It is with great sadness that we record the death on Saturday morning, 13 July, of Anthony Hobson, at the age of 92. The leading bookbinding historian of his, and indeed successive generations, his work, especially on Italian bindings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, was outstanding and will remain a monument to a long and very active life. He was completing work on a new book when he died.

We are now taking applications for this year's Summer School at Uppsala, Sweden. Please visit www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool for more information about the programme and fees.

Ligatus and CCW Graduate School at the University of the Arts London present an open lecture by George Boudalis "From overcasting to twining: new insights into the making of endbands in the Byzantine bookbinding tradition and their relation to textile weaving".

Monday, 16th April, 5.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Block A
Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London, SW1P 4JU
Admission free but please RSVP to e.warner @ arts.ac.uk

The Ligatus website has now been moved to a new server and we hope that you will notice the dramatic increase of speed. Various details still need sorting but most of the content and functionality should be there. Apologies for yesterday's minor disruption.

Login to Ligatus's website will be impossible over the weekend and Monday due to planned maintenance. We expect the website to return back to normal operation on Tuesday. In the meantime no content updates will be possible.

Ligatus has moved office. The new address is:

Ligatus Research Centre
CCW Graduate School
University of the Arts London
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
U.K.

The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830 and Identifying and recording bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing.

Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia, Venice (Italy)
19-23 and 26-30 September 2011

Ligatus Summer School 2010
(http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool)

The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830

and

Identifying and recording Byzantine bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing.

Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel (Germany)
2-6 and 9-13 August 2010.

Professor Nicholas Pickwoad has been awarded the Royal Warrant Holder Association's 2009 Plowden Medal. The award has been made in recognition of his work in the study and conservation of historic libraries and rare books. The medal will be presented to him by HRH The Princess Royal and the Royal Warrant Holders Association Lunch in London on 2nd June 2009.