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BlogDavid Shaw’s Blog on the history of the book, early music, the history of Canterbury Cathedral Library and its collections.
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Electronic bibliographical resources
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ForthcomingDavid Shaw: ‘The Stationers and the Poor Law’. Recent event‘Researching the administration of the Poor Law in the eighteenth century‘
Recent publications‘When was Canterbury Cathedral’s medieval library demolished?’, Archaeologia Cantiana, 142, 2021, pp. 321–326. ‘Eighteenth-century stationers and the distribution of Poor Law settlement certificates in East Kent’, Publishing History, 2022 [2023].
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Recent conferences and seminarsWilliam Somner
(1606–1669) Conference and exhibition
Libraries in an Age of Revolution
Conference at Winchester College 25–26 April 2019 David Shaw, Canterbury ‘Cathedral Library and the Civil War’. Canterbury Cathedral and its administration in the Restoration period
Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society Wednesday 11 March 2020 Paper for octavos: Innovation in early sixteenth-century book production.
Tuesday 15 December 2020 The Bibliographical Society by Zoom Download PowerPoint (recording available ) The Cathedral Library:
books and their owners (exhibition, talk, and afternoon tea) Monday 16 August 2021 Cathedral Archives and Library and Canterbury Cathedral Lodge ‘The Poor Law settlement system in East Kent in the eighteenth century‘
A talk to the Kent Family History Society, Canterbury, Friday 10 March 2023 ‘The Poor Law settlement system in Kent in the eighteenth century‘
A talk to the Deal branch of the Kent Family History Society Tuesday 10 October 2023 ‘The archaeology of the printed book‘
Friends of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust 29 February 2024, 7.00 pm (https://www.canterburytrust.co.uk/fcat) Sarah Dixon’s Poems on several occasions (Canterbury, 1740) and its reception: an examination of the list of subscribers.
Saturday 2 March 2024, 2.00 pm (https://ckhh.org.uk/events/details/inspirational-kent-women-writers) Other blog posts
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Recent publications
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