The Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group

2010-2011
26th October 2010	Ms. Nichola Court:	*The History of the Royal Society and its Library*
16th November, 2010	Rev. Dr. D. Ben Rees:	*The Contribution of Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf: 1836-1904) of Liverpool to Welsh Publishing*
18th January 2011	Dr. Stephen Briggs:	Promoting Welsh County History, ca. 1780-1835: Picturesque Investigators, the Impoverished Printer and *the Barefaced Plagiarist*
12th February, 2011	Mr. Daniel Huws:	*A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes*
15th March 2011	Dr. John Turner:	*Peter Rabbit in America: Unauthorised Editions of Beatrix Potter's Work*
2009-2010
13th October 2009	Dr. David Shaw	*The* *Book Trade, and the University in Early Sixteenth-Century* *Paris*
17th November, 2009	Mr. Iwan Meical Jones	*Portraying Victorian Wales*
19th January, 2010	Mr. Gerald Morgan	*Collecting Welsh Ballads*
16th February, 2010	Dr. John Graham Jones	*The* *Welsh Politcal Archive*
23rd March, 2010	Ms Penny David	*Writing about Aberglasney*
2008-2009
21st October 2008	Dr. Keith Manley	*Love, Blood, and Teddy Bears: Twopenny Libraries, Parliament, and the Law in the 1930s*
11th November 2008	Ms. Valerie Floyd	*Music at Llanerchaeron*
20th January 2009	Mr. Denis Grogan	*"The Pencil of Nature"Early Photographically-Illustrated Books*
17th February 2009	Mr. Paul Bryant-Quinn	*"They had Names; they had Faces": Wales and the Anglo-Zulu War*
17th March 2009	Miss Helen Palmer	*"I am hapy to inform you that Boneparte is defeted": Writing Home to Penrallt Ddu, 1811-1824*

2007-2008

16th October, 2007

Dr Nicholas Bell

My Ladye Nevells Booke: The Keyboard Music of William Byrd

20th November, 2007

Michael Freeman

Sources of information for the Traveller in 18th and 19th-Century Wales

15th January, 2008

Philip Henry Jones

Form Llanidloes to Tientsin: the Sad Odyssey of Matthew Lewis, Preacher, novelist, Soldier

12th February, 2008

Gareth Edwards

The history of the National Monuments Record of Wales

11th March, 2008

Penny David

Writing about Aberglasney

2006-2007
24th October, 2006	Thomas Lloyd	Welsh Country House Libraries and their Owners
21st November, 2006	Anwen Pierce	The history of Gwasg Gomer
16th January, 2007	Edwina Ellis	Printmaking with an AlbionPress
13th February, 2007	David Matthews	In the steps of "the Master": Reading Henry James
13th March, 2007	Beverly Davies	The Cambrian News: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

2005-2006
11th October 2005	Dr. Brian Davies	*Fake or Forgery?*
15th November 2005	Rev. Neil Fairlamb	*Bishop Edward Stillingfleet* *and Marsh's Library, Dublin*
17th January 2006	Mrs. Mary Burdett-Jones	*Doctor Humphrey Foulkes: The Most Intellectual of Edward Lhuyd's Correspondents*
14th February 2006	Dr. David Stoker	"The Antiquities and Constitutions of a Noble and Ancient Nation": The publication of the Leges Wallicae, 1719-1730
14th March 2006	Dr. Lionel Madden	*In the Stacks with Philip Larkin*

2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5

19th October 2004

Dr. Peter Thomas

Henry Vaughan, Silurist:
The Man and the Book

9th November 2004

Dr. Henry Summerson

"A Very Garden & Seed Plot":
The Learning and Letters of Wales in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

18th January 2005

Dr. Gareth Alban Davies

Owen Jones, Architect, 1809-74:
The Prophetic Hand

15th February 2005

Mrs. Hazel Bell

What Makes an Indexer?

15th March 2005

Mr. Ron Cowell

The Early History of the Aberystwyth Post Office

2 0 0 3 - 2 0 0 4
21st October 2003	Professor Maldwyn Mills	*Reading the Image in the Book: Mediaeval, Renaissance and Modern*
18th November 2003	Dr. Derryan Paul	*Sources for Church Building: Herefordshire, 1662-1762*
20th January 2004	Dr. Boyd Schlenther and Dr. Eryn White	*Corresponding with 18th-Century Methodists: The Making of the Calendar of the Trevecka Letters*
17th February 2004	Dr. Maureen Bell	*The British Book Trade Index on the Web*
23rd March 2004	Miss Helen Davies	*Encounters with Welsh Ancestors: Explorations in the Records*
2 0 0 2 - 2 0 0 3
15th October 2002	Mrs. Brenda Scragg	*John and Mrs. Rylands as Book Collectors*
19th November 2002	Dr. Rhidian Griffiths	The Master of Stationer's Hall: Isaac Jones, Music Publisher
21st January 2003	Dr. Brian Davies	*Savage Colours*
18th February 2003	Mr. Mark Purcell	*The Libraries of the National Trust*
25th March 2003	Mr. Glynne Heywood	*My Life with Books*
2 0 0 1 - 2 0 0 2
16th October 2001	Mr. Andrew Green	*Sir John Ballinger: Magician or Monster?*
20th November 2001	Dr. Glyn Tegai Hughes	*Gwasg Gregynog: Downs and Ups*
22nd January 2002	Mr. David Matthews	*Spirits from the Vasty Deep: Thoughts on Re-reading Shakespeare*
19th February 2002	Professor Deirdre Beddoe	Popular Fiction in Women's Magazine as a Source of Women's History
19th March 2002	Mr. William Troughton	*Postcards - Old and New*
2001-2000
24th October 2000	Professor Hywel Roberts	*John Gwenogfryn Evans, Printer*
21st November 2000	Rev. Dr. R.W.D. Fenn	The Banks Family Archives and the Local Historian
23rd January 2001	Rev. Dr. David Williams	Cistercian Libraries, with especial reference to Wales and the Border
20th February 2001	Mr. Giles Mandelbrote	*John Evelyn and his Books*
20th March 2001	Mr. Tegwyn Jones	*Visual Firecrackers*
1999 - 2000
19th October 1999	Dr. JEAN EVERITT	*Co-operative Society Libraries: More than just Books*
16th November 1999	Mr. PETER HINGLEY	*Treasures of the Royal Astronomical Society Library*
18th January 2000	Mr. PAUL BRYANT-QUINN	*Silent Music: On Editing Fifteenth-Century Welsh Poetry*
22nd February 2000	Miss LIZ BOWERMAN	*Marbled Paper: Its Manufacture, and use in Bookbindings*
14th March 2000	Mr. PHILIP HENRY JONES	*John Dunton's Fifty-Guinea Inspiration*
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