Events take place in the Library’s Morison Room, unless noted otherwise. Coffee will be served half an hour before morning meetings, and tea half an hour before the evening talks starting at 5.30 p.m.; events which include displays of books and manuscripts begin at 5.00 p.m. Light refreshments are provided at exhibition openings.

Saturday 26 November 2011, at 11.30 a.m.
PETER JONES
Babies Make News

This talk will explore ways in which the subject of human reproduction has shaped books, manuscripts, newspapers and films, and how communications media have in turn framed thinking about babies.

The talk will be preceded at 11.00 a.m. by the Friends’ Annual General Meeting

Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5.00 p.m.
PAUL BINSKI AND PATRICK ZUTSHI
Library Illuminations

Following the publication of their catalogue of Western illuminated manuscripts in the University Library (produced with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova), Professor Binski and Dr Zutshi will give an illustrated presentation and lead a viewing of a selection of the Library’s most remarkable illuminated manuscripts.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION

Friends are invited to a reception to mark the opening by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healy of the Library’s new exhibition highlighting books and manuscripts collected by the great bibliophiles whose treasures have enriched its holdings over the centuries.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
JOHN GARDNER
Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822

‘“Radical” is a new word since my time – it was not in the political vocabulary in 1816’ (Byron in a letter to John Cam Hobhouse, April 1820)

Following the end of the war with France, street literature, in the form of pamphlets, broadsides, illustrations, pornography, pirate publications and advertising, became increasingly radical, and ephemeral. This paper will examine radicalism in this period and its literary and cultural legacy.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
JULIE BROWN
Exploring the Music of ‘Epic of Everest’

Mallory and Irvine’s famous ascent of Mount Everest in 1924 was captured for posterity by Captain J. B. Noel. Although a ‘silent film’, it was afforded rather sumptuous musical treatment for its West End run, and its compiled ‘special score’ is one of only a small number of such British scores known to survive. What did people hear at those screenings, and how might it have inflected their viewing?

Tuesday 13 March 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
LAURA NUVOLONI
‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be’: Incunables and their Owners

In this talk, Dr Nuvoloni will examine the historical evidence of book ownership in the University Library’s collection of books printed before 1501.

Thursday 10 May 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
CHRISTIAN STAUFENBIEL
The German Collections

Specialist cataloguer Christian Staufenbiel gives a guided tour of a display of representative items from the Library’s rich holdings of German-language books, highlighting some distinct features of the collections.

Wednesday 6 June 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
THE FRIENDS’ FINANCIAL PANEL MEETING

The Financial Panel meets annually to decide which books, maps, manuscripts and musical scores accessioned by the Library in the preceding twelve months should receive the support of the Friends. The items under consideration will be on display in the Morison Room from 4.30 p.m. onwards, and at 5.00 p.m. presentations on the material will be made by members of the Library staff. The Panel will then deliberate and decide on the Friends’ purchases for 2011–2012.

Admission free to members of the Friends.

Other events and visits may be organized in the course of the year. Details will be circulated to members.

The Friends of Cambridge University Library
Honorary Treasurer and Secretary: John Wells
University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR
Tel. 01223 333055/333083; Fax 01223 333160; e-mail friends@lib.cam.ac.uk.