Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of the Ligatus Research Centre, presents his first lecture of 2013
Submitted by Karen Di Franco on
Unfinished Business: Incomplete bindings made for the book trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
Ligatus news
Russia calf
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This is a new feature on the Ligatus website, in which we plan to make available short essays, observations, queries and comments on matters relating to bookbinding that might not get an airing elsewhere. We will be happy to consider adding contributions from anyone who has something of relevance and interest to offer – please contact Ligatus and we will get back to you.
Break-up of Mendham collection
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From the change.org website. Sign the petition here.
Canterbury Cathedral and the University of Kent have joined forces in a bid to prevent a unique historic collection of several thousand manuscripts, early books, and pamphlets being broken up.
UAL awards Chris Clarkson an Honourary Doctorate
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It is with great pleasure that we can record that Christopher Clarkson was awarded an Honorary Doctorate on 16 July by the University of the Arts London, in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the conservation of parchment and paper manuscripts, early printed books and book-bindings. It was an occasion on which to remember his first contact with the then independent Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts as a 13-year-old schoolboy and to mark his continuing dedication to the education of young conservators not only in the United Kingdom but across the world.
Ligatus Summer School 2012
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Identifying and Recording Bookbinding Structures for Conservation and Cataloguing
and
The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830
Institut National du Patrimoine and Centre Culturel des Irlandais
3-7 and 10-14 September 2012
Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad co-curates bindings exhibition in Madrid
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Watch an interview with Maria Louisa Vidriero talking about the exhibition (in Spanish) here:
Read more about the exhibition here:
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/04/19/madrid/1334829285_695151.html
New post: Research Technician (Digital Resources Administrator)
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Position Type: Temporary - Part time
Salary: £26,167 - £31,943 per annum
Closing Date: 18/04/2012
Job Overview
3 Years Fixed Term Contract
Part time 0.5 FTE, 20 hours
CCW Research – Ligatus
Why choose us?
Open Lecture on Byzantine Bookbinding
Submitted by Ewelina Warner on
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
Website migration complete
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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.
Restricted website access
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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.
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