1987-1988
Ruari McLean, Benjamin Fawcett and Victorian Colour Printing
Richard Keesing, The Incorruptible Genius of Isaac Newton
Michael Pointer, The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes*
Nicholas Barker, The Forgeries of T.J. Wise and H.B. Forman
Peter Inch, Inside the ’40’s:
Neo-Romance and Surrealism in British Book Art
J.W. Binns, The Lure of Early Latin Books
Visits
Tennyson Research Centre and Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Rokeby Park
1988-1989
Trevor Jones, Further Confessions of an Unrepentant Designer Bookbinder
John Parker, Lawrence of Arabia: The Vicissitudes of a Legend
Hugh Murray, A Birds-Eye View of York*
John Fuggles, Sir Richard Ellys and the Books at Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Noel Osselton, Typography and Layout in 17th and 18th century Dictionaries
Robert Woof, Wordsworth and the Cultural Context
Visits
Cambridge weekend
The Portico Library and Chetham’s Library, Manchester
J.B. Morrell Library, University of York
1989-1990
Christopher Ridgway, The Book Collecting Earls of Castle Howard
Graham Watson, Collecting Colour Plate Books
Jacques Berthoud, Poetry and Wine*
Jon Stallworthy, The Uses of the Wastepaper Basket:
Poets and their Manuscripts
David Alexander, York and the 18th-century Print Trade
Ray Watkinson, William Morris and the Architecture of Books
Visits
Philip Larkin Collection, University of Hull Library
The Bar Convent Library
The Hailstone Collection, York Minster Library
Edinburgh weekend
1990-1991
J.P. Donovan, Blake and the Art of the Book
Peter Goodchild, Birds-Eye Views of English Gardens and Parklands
Brian Morris, Desert Island Books*
Roy Davids, The Annotated Book
Peter Isaac, A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured:
The 19th-century Juvenile Drama
Iain Bain, Bewick Identified
Visits
Sledmere House
National Railway Museum
Leeds Subscription Library
1991-1992
Christopher Sheppard, Adding to his Lordship’s Treasures:
The Expansion of the Brotherton Collection
Frank Felsenstein, 18th-century Images of the Jew
Michael Harris, Hard News: The Historian and the 18th-century Newspaper*
Geoff Day, Tristram Shandy and the Visual
David Griffiths, Music Selling and Publishing in York: 17th-20th centuries
David Pierce, Sturge Moore’s Cover Designs for Yeats’ Poems
Visits
Castle Howard
Durham Cathedral Library, and Cosin’s Library
The Petyt Library, Skipton
1992-1993
Graham Parry, The 17th-century Engraved Title-Page
Ian Doyle, The Sources of Bishop Cosin’s Library
Malcolm Neesam, Arx Celebris Fontibus*
Mirjam Foot, Bookbinding and the History of Books
Carol Meale, Thomas Malory’s Arthuriad: A Medieval Romance in
MS and Print
Maurice Kirk, Nupkins Informed: A Survey of Magistrates’ Handbooks
Visits
The Borthwick Institute
Chester Cathedral Library
W.S. Maney & Son, Leeds
1993-1994
Bernard Barr, Thomas Gent: Printer, Author and Eccentric
Mervyn Jannetta, Building the British Library: A Personal View
Frank Collieson, Mostly Mistletoe: Three Hours in the Lunch of
Christopher Morley*
Iain G. Brown, The Image of Allan Ramsay in Early Editions
Francis Pickard, The Sitwells: A Legendary Extravaganza
Clive Wainwright, Pugin and the Gothic Revival Book
Visits
York Medical Society
Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire
1994-1995
John Barrell, Citizen Lee: A Radical Bookseller in 1795
John Keatley, Modern British Books and Bookbindings
Joanna Selborne, The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat
Peter Burman, An English Trio: Philip Webb, William Lethaby and
A.R. Powys*
Anthony Rota, The Collecting of Modern First Editions:
Changes in Taste and Technique
John Barnard and Maureen Bell, The Booktrade in the Minster Yard:
John Foster 1616
Barry Bloomfield, The Life and Work of Barbara Jones
Visits
The King’s Manor Library
Lincoln Cathedral, The Wren Library
Glasgow weekend
1995-1996
Caroline Bendix, The Care and Maintenance of Collections of Books
John Wilson, The Genesis of the Photographically Illustrated Book
Hugh Brigstocke, Art History and the Art Market*
Nigel Ramsey, The Library of Sir Robert Cotton
David Reibel, Lindley Murray and his Grammars
Catherine Cook, From the Romanovs to Stalin: Russian Architectural Books
Visits
Stonyhurst College, Lancashire
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne
1996-1997
David Weston, What is an Emblem Book?
The Collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell
Peter Hogarth, The Letters between J.B.S. Morritt and
Lady Louise Stuart, 1816-1843
John Walsh, Sydney Smith Revived*
Graham Parry, Van Dyck
Peter Lock, D.G. Hogarth: An Expert in the Science of Archaeology?
Maurice Kirk, The Revd Mr Malthus and the Essay
Visits
Hovingham Hall
Scampston Hall
1997-1998
Wilfrid Mellers, John Singer Sargent in the Salons of Music
Joanna Moody, The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby
John Langton, A Winter Festival*
S.A.J. Bradley, The Book in Anglo-Saxon England
Monika Pickard, Casanova: More a Man of Letters than an Epithet
David Pearson, Looking at Provenance: Why? And How?
Visits
The West Building, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds,
and Ripon Cathedral Library
Boynton Hall
1998-1999
Peter Miller, Changes in the Book Trade: A Personal View
George Mackie, The Invisible Typographer
Richard Shephard, Lord Berners: An English Eccentric*
Jacques Berthoud, What is a Shakespearian Textual Crux?
David Watkin, John Soane and William Beckford
Karen Hodder, Chaucer Modernised: Eminent Victorians and the Father
of English Poetry
Visits
Ushaw College, Durham - postponed
Oxford weekend
1999-2000
Gerard Benson, Nemo: The Ultimate Literary Challenge
Elizabeth Heaps, University Challenge: A Librarian’s Perspective
Peter Lock, Digging for Dinner: The Edwardians and their Archaeology*
Alan Roughley, Joyce’s Ulysses: Composing a Definitive Edition
Mark Hallett, William Hogarth’s Industry and Idleness: A New
Perspective
Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, 1880–1920
Visits
Alcuin Wing, York Minster Library
Richard Axe, Harrogate
200-2001
Francis O’Gorman, The Legacy of John Ruskin
John Wilson, A Miscellany of Catalogues from 1690 to the Present Day
Paul Minet, Bookselling: Very Past and Very Present*
Keith Elliott, The Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament
Derek Pearsall, The Gothic Book
Frank Herrmann, Behind the Rostrum
Visits
Ruskin Library, Lancaster
Kiplin Hall
2001-2002
Jonathan Dollimore, Oscar Wilde
Bridget Cherry, Revising Pevsner’s Buildings of England
Readings from Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson*
Jason Scott-Warren, Cooking Books: Sir John Harington’s
Presentation Copies
John Saumarez Smith, Society Gossip: Life of a Mayfair Bookseller
Frances Spalding, John Piper and Coventry
Visits
John Rylands Library, Manchester
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
2002-2003
David Alexander, The Position of York in the Georgian Book Trade
David Blamires, Exploring the World in Alphabet Books
Readings from Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales*
Simon Lawrence, The Fleece Press: Art and Craft Combined
Anthony Stanforth, Tracts of the Society for Pure English
Peter de Voogd, Lydia’s Letters of Laurence Sterne
Visits
Ushaw College, Durham
York Reference Library
2003-2004
Peter Hoare, Christopher Wren’s Library Buildings
Richard Keesing, Cotman’s Yorkshire Watercolours
David Goodway, The One Powys and the Many: John Cowper Powys
and his Siblings
Lenore Symons, Brother Magnetizer: Silvanus Phillips Thompson
and his Book Collection
Ian Rogerson, The Book Illustration of Barnett Freedman
Visits
Literary and Philosophical Society, Whitby
Winestead
2004-2005
Nicholas Pickwoad, The Derry Diocesan Library:
A Look at a ‘Lost’ Library of Northern Ireland
Anthony Geraghty, Building an Architectural Library in
Restoration London: The Case of Dr Robert Hooke
Nigel Forde, Mixed Metafordes*
Murray Simpson, Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland:
The Library of the Revd James Nairn
Christopher Ridgway, Thomas Bewick: A Man Lost in Detail
Ruth Larsen, The Lady and the Novel: Elite Women of Yorkshire
and their Books in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Visits
Burton Constable Hall
Southwell and Balderton, Nottinghamshire
2005-2006
Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen and his Editors
Stuart Bennett, Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800
Clive Farahar, Books, Manuscripts, and the Antiques Roadshow*
Peter Morrish, Ralph Thoresby: Books and Libraries
David Griffiths, The Yorkshire Country House Partnership
Libraries Project
James Booth, Thoughts, Second Thoughts and Afterthoughts:
Philip Larkin’s Workbooks
Visits
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
Grasmere weekend
2006-2007
Laurence Rainey, Revisitng ‘The Wasteland’
William Sherman, 
Towards a History of the Manicule
Giles Mandelbrote, Out of Print and Into Profit*
Colin Divall, Building Markets: Companies, Enthusiasts and
Railway Publishing in Britain to 1939
W.J. Sheils, Archbishops and their Libraries at York
John Scattergood, Books and Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin
Visits
Library of Sir Herbert Read, Brotherton Library, Leeds
Nostell Priory
2007-2008
Nick Havely, “I bought this book in London”: Importing
Danté’s
Comedy in the 15th Century
Bernard Barr, Archbishope Tobie Matthews: Book Collector
Brian Lake, Bizarre Books*
Kerry Bristol, James ‘Athenian’ Stuart and The Antiquities of
Athens 1762-1816
Linne Moodey, English Medieval Scribes
John Birtwhistle, “With the types of Didot”:
Shelley seeing his elegy for Keats through the press
Visits
Library at Castle Howard
Chetham’s Library
2008-2009
Heather Glen, Editing Charlotte Brontë’s Final Angrian Tales
David Alexander, Book Covers
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
Davis Finkelstein, The Nineteenth Century Scottish Periodical Press
Joan Williams, Of Mice and Manuscripts: Thirty Years in Cathedral Libraries
Karen Hodder, The Northern Tour of a 19th-Century Commercial
Traveller: Reginald Hodder of Hodder & Stoughton
Visits
Leeds Subscription Library
2009-2010
Christopher Rowe, Humphrey Moseley (1604-1661): Stationer
Geoffrey Wall, “Madame Bovary, C’Est Moi”! The Problem with
Flaubert’s Woman
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
Peter Goodchild, “Earthly Paradises”: Garden Writing in the
17th Century
David Pierce, James Joyce Revisited
Graham Parry, The Library of Lady Anne Clifford
Visits
Residential Visit to Dublin and its Libraries
2010-2011
Patrick Wildgust, Laurence Sterne
Keith Jones, Barchester and After
Valerie Holman, Print for Victory: Publishing and Reading in World War Two
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
Geoffrey Day, Waste, Luxury and Recycling in the Winchester Fellows’
Library
Ian Rogerson, The Development of Colour Printing in the 20th
Century
2011-2012
John Bowen, Dickens by Numbers
Frances Spalding, The Problems of the Biographer
Malcolm Chase, Printing and Publishing in 1820
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
Richard Gameson, The Image of the Medieval Library
Edward Bayntun-Coward, The Bayntun-Riviere Bindery
Visits
Residential Visit to Durham and its Libraries
2012-2013
Stephen Massil, Cataloguing the National Trust: Shakespeare,
Landscape and the In-Laws
John Saumurez-Smith, The Company of Books
Roger Keyes, ‘Ehon’: The Artist and the Book in Japan
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
George Ramssden, Tribulations of a Publishing Bookseller
Malcolm Jones, Text and Image in Early Modern England
Visits
Residential Visit to Salisbury, Winchester and their Libraries
2012-2013
Paul Elmhirst, The Family Budget 1914-1919: A remarkable collection of
Yorkshire Letters from the Great War
Tanya Demetriou, Homer Through the Ages
Anne-Marie Akehurst, The Devil and Polite Society
New Year Supper (no talk this year)
Graham Parry, Lancelot Andrewes: Leading the church and translation of the
Bible
Ed Maggs, Maggs Brothers after 162 years: The view from Berkeley Square
Visits
Visit to the Library of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
2014-2015
Chris Kyriacou, Early 20th Century Travel Guides: A Source of
Endless Amusement
Derek Pearsall, Mediaeval English Bibliophiles
Monika Pickard, Berlin Salons in the Early 19th Century
New Year Supper Party (no talk this year)
John Issitt, The Case of the Unitarian New Testament 1808
John Langton, Five American Illustrators
Visits
The Old Palace Library, York Minster
The Raymond Burton Library, University of York
Residential visit to Libraries and Galleries in Edinburgh.
2015-2016
Keith Robbins: Completing the Picture: Vol. IV of the History of Oxford
University Press (1970-2004)
Barry & Wendy Armstrong: The Arts & Crafts Movement in Northern
England
Justin Croft: Antiquarian Book-Selling in the 21st Century
New Year Supper Party (no talk this year)
John McKay: Cover Versions: Reading Covers in the Digital Age
Janette Ray: Selling Architectural Books
2016-2017
Paul Quarrie, The Pleasures of Cataloguing
Michael Taylor, A Discursive Survey of Private Press Books From William
Morris to the Present Day
Bruce Wannell, Sir Thomas Herbert
Rhiannon Lawrence Francis, The Secrets of Early Printed Books: Lord
Brotherton's Incunabula Revealed
Winter Dinner (no talk this year)
Lisa Cheney, The Vicissitudes of Writing Biography