15 April 2025 - Visit: Stationers Hall Library and Archive

Location: Meeting point to be sent nearer the time to participants

Description: The Archive holds the administrative records of the Company since it received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1557. Although the Company has been involved with the licensing of books, the regulation of the book trade and some direct selling of books since its foundation, it has never had the resources or the remit to keep copies of all the books its members published. Its printed book collection has grown up mostly during the last hundred years or so, largely by gift and partly by purchase, and much of it comprises twentieth-century books relating to the history of the book, paper and newspaper trades, and the history of London and its other livery companies. A focused effort to build a reference library in these areas was begun in the 1970s but it was never possible to develop it systematically. The Company celebrates and preserves its heritage, but it cannot compete with other organizations which are better placed to deliver research libraries in book history, nor is that part of its mission.

Please be aware that the Hall is a listed building with many different levels and many stairs. They do have a stair climber for wheelchairs and disabled toilet facilities. Please notify Tal if you will need assistance so that this can be passed on ahead of the visit.

Cost: £25, including tea

Number of attendees: 40

Please contact Talitha Wachtelborn [email protected] with any questions.

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