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The article discusses the name change of the journal "Twentieth Century British History" to "Modern British History" and the reasons behind this change. The journal aims to broaden its scope beyond the 1990s and reflect its openness to work on the recent past. It also explores the challenges of defining "modernity" and "Britishness" in the field of modern British history, emphasizing the need to consider transnational contexts and expand methodologies and approaches. The article further examines the impact of digitization on historical research, highlighting both the opportunities and limitations it presents. It also addresses the importance of embracing digital methodologies and acknowledges the impact of working conditions and inequalities in higher education on the field of history. The issue of the journal includes various commentaries, roundtables, and reflections on the field, as well as showcasing the journal's initiatives and award-winning articles. The authors express gratitude to contributors and emphasize the significance of peer review in sustaining the vitality and robustness of the field. [Extracted from the article]

I Libraries: Culture, History and Society i , 7, 1 (March 2023) Includes: Bradley Brazzeal, 'The University of Wisconsin and the Development of Librarianship in the Philippines'; Jirina Smejkalová and Roar Lishaugen, 'Sites of Book Memory: Czech Home Libraries Under the Communist Regime (1948-1989)'; Jana Varlejs, "Lowell Martin: The Shaping of a Public Library Leader"; Four short articles marking the 75th anniversary of the American Library Association's Library History Round Table. I Book History i , 25, 2 (Fall 2022) Includes: Jordan E. Taylor, 'Hiding in Paine Sight: Jonathan Shipley's Forgotten Bestsellers and the Print Culture of the American Revolution'; Renee Bryzik, "Negotiating Intimacy in British Romantic Friendship Albums"; Jamie Horrocks, 'Reforming the "Art Preservative": Nineteenth-Century British Printing Manuals and the Discourse of Design'; Akrish Adikari, "Print-Grammars: Technologizing the Indian Vernacular"; David Tate, 'Offprinting Bibliotherapy: Sadie P. Delaney's Interventions in Media Infrastructures'; Matthew S. Lindia, "Following Orders: A History of Amharic Typing"; Korey Garibaldi, "The Business of Black and Interracial Children's Literature"; Martin Paul Eve, "New Leaves: Riffling the History of Digital Pagination"; James Misson and Devani Singh, "Computing Book Parts with EEBO- TCP". Pioneers in the Developing of Bookbinding History, Part 3: G. D. and A. R. A. Hobson'; James Fleming, '"Books as they were bought": The Social History of a Collection by Mavis Eggle'; Stephen Clarke, 'The Libraries of Twelve Early Members of The Club, Part 10: William Windham. [Extracted from the article]

Includes: Fiorenzo Landi, 'The Dissolution of Monasteries and Convents in Europe: An Overview of the Economic Implications'; Richard Sharpe, 'Dissolution and Dispersion in Sixteenth-Century England: Understanding the Remains'; Rudolf Gamper, 'Klosteraufhebungen und das Schicksal ihrer Bibliotheken in der Deutschschweiz'; Jeffrey Garrett, 'The Expropriation of Monastic Libraries in German-Speaking Europe, 1773-1817'; Javier Antón Pelayo, 'The Secularization of Spanish Religious Libraries (1767-1836): The Catalan Case'; Luís Cabral, 'Case study 1: Portugal, Porto - State Policy Concerning the Dissolution of Monastic Book Collections in Portugal, especially during the Nineteenth Century'; María Luisa Lopez Vidriero, 'Case study 2: Spain, Seville and Madrid - The Formation of New Libraries'; Pedro Rueda Ramírez, 'The Secularization of Religious Houses in Latin America from Independence to the New Republics: The Continuity and Fragmentation of Library Collections'; Dorit Raines, 'The Dissolution of the Venetian Religious Houses and the Keeper of the Library of St Mark, Jacopo Morelli, under Venetian, French, and Austrian Governments (1768-1819)'; Vincenzo Trombetta, 'La politica delle soppressioni e le nuove biblioteche a Napoli tra illuminismo regalista e restaurazione (1767-1815)'; Marie-Pierre Laffitte, 'Napoléon et les confiscations de livres dans les monastères italiens'; Jos A. A. M. Biemans, 'The Foundation of the City Library of Amsterdam (1578) and the Confiscation of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Ecclesiastical and Monastic Libraries: Fact or Fiction? The quality of this book lies in the quiet tone of the observation, the absence of any strident ideology, and the attractiveness of some of the examples, discovered through long years of actually handling books in a major library. [Extracted from the article]

The Sadler partbooks (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Mus. e. 1–5), one of the most important English polyphonic sources to survive from the sixteenth century, reflect the interventions of several generations of later owners. Today the volumes bear a number of marks that were clearly not coeval with their copying in the sixteenth century; they have also been subjected to at least one rebinding, and some leaves are in a disrupted position, hitherto unobserved (and still misplaced). This article seeks to account for the custodial history of the Sadler partbooks, and to chart the bearing that their later owners have had on the partbooks' present state. Apart from showing that the books travelled widely—they can be traced in Norwich, London, Bath, Bristol, Manchester, and eventually Oxford—it also shows that the partbooks came to the brink of destruction in the hands of one former owner, surviving fire, flood, and theft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Owing to Covid and its impact on the supplies of review copies to reviewers, this chapter contains some retrospective coverage. Thanks are due to James E May, Shef Rogers, Patrick Scott, and Dino Felluga, and to our other contributors for letting me know what their contributions have been unable to include. The chapter is divided into five sections, and contents may overlap: 1. Periodicals; 2. Editions; 3. Bibliography and Associated Books and Articles; 4. History and Companions including items excluded from other chapters; 5. History of Libraries, Collections, and Miscellaneous including Reference Materials. The final section includes an account of work that publishers sent electronically. These are difficult to record, not being user-friendly, but it would be doing a disservice to their authors or contributors to omit them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purcell, N. 2017: 'Such Is Rome: Strabo on the "Imperial Metropolis"', in D. Dueck (ed.), I The Companion to Strabo i , London and New York. Okyere Asante, M. K. Forthcoming: Classics and the politics of Africanisation in Ghana, in M. K. Okyere Asante, D. van Schoor and K. Ackah (eds), I Decolonising Classics in Africa: History, Strategies, and Prospects, BICS i 65(1): 1-14. Lambert, M. 2011: I The Classics and South Africa Identities i , London. Lambert, M. 2011: I The Classics and South African Identities i , London. - - 2019: "Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Greco-Roman Literature", in B. R. Doak and C. López-Ruiz (eds), I The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean i , Oxford, 671-83. [Extracted from the article]

James Alsop is Professor Emeritus of History, McMaster University, Canada. His first monograph, on the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, is out soon. The different series of the Transactions and The Library are as follows: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. [Extracted from the article]

Owing to Covid-19 and its impact on the supplies of review copies to reviewers, this chapter covering 2019 publications is longer than usual. Thanks are due to Professor Brent E. Kinser, James May, Albert Pionke, Patrick Scott, Shef Rogers, and to our Associate Editors for letting me know what their contributors have been unable to include. It is divided into five sections, and contents may overlap: 1. Periodicals; 2. Editions; 3. Bibliography and Associated Books and Articles; 4. History and Companions; 5. Shakespeare, History of Libraries, Collections, and Miscellaneous including Reference Materials [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: As the centenary of Sir William Osler's death approaches on 29 December 2019, it is worth pausing to reflect on the relationship between the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University and the image of William Osler, for the two are arguably inextricable. When Osler died he had not yet completed his library, yet his donation to McGill included nearly 8000 volumes that represented the foundations of western medicine. The Osler Library now boasts over 100 000 titles and is recognised globally as a centre for the study of medical history.Methods: The approach taken here was to examine inscriptions in the books that William Osler bequeathed to the McGill Medical Facultyin order to learn more about William Osler, the man.Results: By examining inscriptions William Osler and others made in his books, it was possible to learn more about how Osler interacted with his friends, his patients, and also his books.Conclusion: It is argued that these inscriptions are as instructive as they are enriching. They reveal information about Osler's priorities and his personal and professional relationships; future scholars will likely find it useful to examine inscriptions more broadly, to gain insight into such topics as the book trade and world events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the connections between information science, national security and area studies through a history of the overseas collections of U.S. research libraries, particularly from the Middle East and South Asia. Topics discussed include the growth of research libraries during World War II, the changing role of librarians as providers of open-source intelligence during the Cold War, and on how national security priorities influenced the production of academic knowledge. Also mentioned are the work of anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler and sociologist Manuel Castells, the wartime demand for actionable information, and the increased collaboration between librarians and intelligence agencies.

This chapter has five sections: 1: Periodicals; 2. Editions; 3. Bibliography and Associated Books and Articles; 4. Histories and Companions; 5. Shakespeare, History of Libraries, Collections, and Miscellaneous including Reference Materials. These sections are not inviolable. With some exceptions this review of the year's work published in 2017 in the areas of bibliography, textual criticism, and reference materials is alphabetically arranged. Within the alphabetical arrangement by author there are some exceptions where publications are grouped under the respective authors rather than under editors of, for instance, the correspondence. There is also included in this chapter work that has been missed in some of the other chapters in this volume. Readers should be aware that coverage is largely limited to those items that have been received by the contributor, who would like to thank James E. May, James Fergusson, Patrick Scott, and Jan Webster for their assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the 15th century library of John Veysy, fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, England and rector of the church of St James, Garlickhythe, London, England, through his testament and probate inventory. It discusses the mixed library setting of manuscripts and printed editions, distinguished by second folio references. Topics include life of Veysy, bequests of his inventories to institutes in England and his library collection.

The article discusses the libraries of the English King Henry VIII and the inventory of books that he possessed in the library at Westminster palace, England. Topics include the reading preferences of King Henry VIII and his wives, the identification of books and manuscripts that belonged to Henry VIII, and the other libraries in which the books of Henry VIII are housed.

The article focuses on book-buying and the Central Grand Tour during the early modern period with an emphasis on the Italian books at Belton House in Lincolnshire, England. Topics discussed include souvenirs that the average European tourist would obtain in the major Italian cities and the sources of information about book-buying and the Grand Tour. The benefits of studying private libraries of the aristocracy to analyzing the reach of acquired Italian materials are also cited.

David Pearson's discussion of the formation of a directory of seventeenth-century book owners is taken up and extended in this article. Pearson's ’landscape of book ownership‘ has material dimensions which could usefully be included in such a directory. Housing books in a room, on shelves, surrounded by additional collections, are all contributions to this landscape. Pearson's call for a reference framework is answered by the proposal of a typology of early English library rooms, based on their attributes of scale, fittings and location with the plan of the country house. Case studies are drawn from an intensive study of the county of Norfolk. Archival evidence supports a re-evaluation of the problem of the name of the book room: study, library or closet? Personal collections housed in closets are linked to single owners, but the study or library can be seen as the open resource for the household, rather than assuming that it is primarily for the male owner of each generation. The reappraisal of the different roles of these spaces within the house allows notions of shared use to break down some existing boundaries in the scholarly literature, particularly over the gendered nature of the closet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A list of contributors and reviewers for the publication are presented.

This paper gives an overview of our current state of knowledge around English private libraries of the seventeenth century, covering such aspects as size, contents, sources, storage, and owners' attitudes to their books. It identifies areas where our information is poor, or based too much upon small numbers of well-known examples, and highlights the need for further research and better reference tools. The value of having a better understanding of this field, in the wider context of book history, is also considered. The author refers to his web-based listing of book owners of the period and suggests a model for its expansion into a fuller directory. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In his will of 1 January 1700 the Revd William Burkitt gave his nephew, Myles Burkitt, ‘my Library of Books to be set up in the Study at Milding Parsonage’ with the stipulation that ‘they never be sold but goe along with the Studdy for the benefit of suceeding Incumbents, every Incumbent haveing power to exchange what he pleases of the Books and leaveing under his hand a catalogue of the Books he received from his predecessor and of what he leaves to his successor’. This paper describes the provenance, style and contents of that Milden Rectory Library Catalogue, compiled in 1842; it also re-examines the dubious circumstances in which Burkitt's generous provision eventually became one of ‘Three Lost Suffolk Libraries’; and, for the first time, it provides an opportunity for a preliminary assessment of Burkitt's bibliographical legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bibliography is presented on subjects related to the history of libraries which includes articles such as "'The only English periodical of the avant-guard': Sidney Hunt and the Journal 'Ray,'" by I. Candela; "Martin Llewellyn’s Atlas of the East: A Mystery Party Unravelled," by T. Campbell, and "On Libraries, Henry Aldrich and Oxford’s Early Music Collections," by J. Milsom.

Information is presented regarding the Bibliographical Society including membership information; a list of the Society's publications including "Samuel Pepys’s Spanish Plays," by Edward M. Wilson and D. W. Cruickshank, "The Correspondence of the Reverend Francis Blomefield (1705–52)," by D. A. Stoker, and "The Correspondence of the Reverend Francis Blomefield (1705–52)," by William C. Smith; and information regarding the Society's web page at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk.

The article offers brief profiles of Richard Sharpe, Tessa Whitehouse, and J. Christopher Warner, who contributed to the writing of the journal.

A bibliography of periodicals published in 2009 and 2010 containing articles pertaining to library, book, and literary history is presented which includes "ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews," "Bodleian Library Record," and "Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies."

The article explores book ownership in Great Britain during the late 17th century. Book auction catalogues are examined and information concerning the original owners of auctioned titles is presented which includes brief biographical summaries, auction dates, and numbers of items listed for sale. Commonly owned titles included multiple versions of the Holy Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and books by classical authors. Books by early Christian writers, texts on Biblical interpretations, and works focusing on Christian life are also discussed.

A bibliography of periodicals published in 2008 and 2009 discussing literary and library history is presented, including "Journal of Design History," "Libraries & the Cultural Record," and "Private Library."

Describes the great Alexandrian library, founded by Demetrios of Phaleron at the beginning of the third century B.C. Following his exile from Athens, Demetrios devoted his energies to building a research institute modeled after the Aristotelian Lyceum, which appears to have been a substantial compound situated in the royal district of the city bordering the Eastern Harbor. Situation of the library within the museum complex; Archaeological discoveries; Resources for book acquisition.

The article discusses the possible provenance of books from the library of Syon Monastery in Isleworth, England after the dissolution of the Catholic Church during the reign of British King Henry VIII based on an inscription found inside a fifteenth-century Syon psalter held at Edinburgh University Library. The notation marks the December 28, 1543 birth of Elynor Mownselowe, which occurred roughly four years after the November 25, 1539 closure of Syon. The author proposes that the notation was made by her father mercer William Mownselowe (alternately referred to as Mounslowe, Monslow, Mounsloe) of London, England. Historical references to Mownselowe are detailed.

The article details the history of the first English Factory library established in Macao, China. It was first established in 1806 through a combination of donations and subscriptions of both British and American traders and supported through efforts of the East India Company until 1834. An extension library was also established at the English factory of Canton, China soon afterwards. In 1819, surgeon Dr. Alexander Pearson created "A Catalogue of the Library Belonging to the English Factory at Canton in China" for the collection while serving as a voluntary custodian of the library.

An annotated bibliography is presented on subjects related to the history of libraries which includes the books "Katalog der Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und des Stadtarchivs Heidelberg," compiled by Armin Schlechter and Ludwig Ries, "Das Athen der Welfen. Die Reformuniversität Helmstedt, 1576–1810," edited by Jens Brüning and UlrikeGleixner, and "Însemnări de pe manuscrise şi cărți vechi din Țara Moldovei, i: 1429-1750; ii: 1751-1795; iii: 1796-1828; iv: 1829-1859," in four volumes, edited by I. Caproşu and E. Chiaburu.

Although musical life in colonial America is by now generally well documented, one aspect that has not received particular attention is the presence and influence of the music of Antonio Vivaldi. This study focuses on the musical activities of three 18th-century American men: Francis Hopkinson, Peter Pelham and Thomas Jefferson. Hopkinson was a Pennsylvanian lawyer and political activist who was also a musician and composer. He helped organize the first subscription concerts in Philadelphia, and his music library contained copies of printed works of many British and Italian composers, including Corelli’s op.6 and Vivaldi’s pioneering op.3. Around 1764, he prepared a manuscript collection of keyboard arrangements (Lessons) of works then popular, including Vivaldi’s concerto for two violins, rv519. Pelham was a London-born organist and composer who resettled in the American colonies and eventually became the leading figure in the musical life of Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia. A 1769 letter by a local resident refers to his organ performances of music by Handel and Vivaldi there. Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third US president, was also a serious violinist, music collector and student of the theory and practice of music. A surviving inventory of his personal music library indicates that Vivaldi was perhaps the most represented composer and that Jefferson sought to obtain almost all available British publications of the composer’s works (although the library is mostly lost, his copy of Vivaldi’s op.2 violin sonatas is still extant). The importance of Vivaldi and certain of his Italian and English colleagues for the development of organized musical life in early America is fundamental. That Vivaldi’s work in particular attracted the attention of one of America’s first composers, one of its first virtuosos and one of its first serious students of music, speaks for itself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]