Notes on Contributors
Robyn Adams
is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. Her research interests lie in the exchange of books in the early modern period, particularly between book owners and institutions, and, more broadly, in the formation of libraries, epistolary networks, and archive studies. She has written on the early years of the Bodleian Library, the book-owning practices of seventeenth-century library donors, and the circulation of letters and maps in sixteenth-century intelligence communities.
Richard Foster
is Fellows’ Librarian and Keeper of Collections at Winchester College. He is the author of several publications on early printed books and the history of collecting, and is currently researching the fortunes of English cathedral libraries during the Civil Wars and Interregnum.
Francesca Galligan
is Assistant Librarian, Rare Books, at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Her research interests include early modern libraries, provenance studies, and bindings and their fragments (recent publications include discoveries of new manuscripts of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames and the Anglo-Norman Li quatre livre des Reis). She has written on the collections of early modern figures including Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York, and Michael Dormer, an early donor to the Bodleian, and is currently working to reconstruct the library of the Tudor courtier and politician Christopher Hatton. She has curated two major Bodleian Treasures exhibitions.
Jaap Geraerts
is postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz where he serves as a member of its Digital Humanities Lab. His research interests include the Catholic and Protestant Reformations, confessional coexistence, and the digital humanities. He is currently working on a project focusing on the Catholic laity in the context of the schism in the Catholic Church in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. His first monograph, Patrons of the Old Faith: The Catholic Nobility in Utrecht and Guelders (c. 1580–1702), was published by Brill in 2018.
Jacqueline Glomski
is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. She is the co-editor (with Isabelle Moreau) of the volumes Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (Oxford University Press, 2016) and (with Gesine Manuwald and Andrew Taylor) Baroque Latinity (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her current research focuses on Neo-Latin prose writing and theories of book collecting and library formation. Dr Glomski is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Shanti Graheli
is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her first monograph, Italian Books and the French Renaissance (forthcoming), explores the circulation and collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. She is the author of various published studies of Italian and French Renaissance print culture, exploring their mutual interactions and the circulation of books between the two domains, with a special interest in the Aldine press, provenance studies, and the investigation of early modern libraries.
Clodagh Murphy
is a PhD candidate on Professor Nadine Akkerman’s ERC consolidator project FEATHERS. Her research explores secretarial influence on the English-language letters of Queen Elizabeth I, c.1558–1603. Prior to joining the FEATHERS project, Clodagh Murphy worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London on Book Owners Online (BOO). Her research interests are in early modern English literature, epistolary studies, and book history.
David Pearson
retired in 2017 as Director of Culture, Heritage, and Libraries for the City of London Corporation, after a career spent in managing libraries and collections in London and elsewhere. He is now a Senior Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, to pursue his academic profile as a writer and teacher of book history, with particular focus on ways in which books have been used, owned, and bound. His books include Provenance Research in Book History (new edition, 2019), Book Ownership in Stuart England (2021), and Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories (2022). He created the Book Owners Online database, hosted by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at UCL, launched in 2020.
Dominique Varry
is professor emeritus of Modern History (Book History, Library History, Physical Bibliography) at ENSSIB, the French national library school in Lyon, where he trained head librarians for thirty years. He is currently working on French provincial books printed under false imprints. Upon his retirement, ENSSIB published a book of some of his research papers, titled ‘Varryations’: Gens du livre, marronneurs et bibliothécaires (Villeurbanne: Presses de l’Enssib, 2020).
Elizabeth Wells
has been the Archivist and Records Manager at Westminster School since 2011. She also has responsibility for the school’s rare books, including Dr Busby’s Library. In addition to the school’s collections, her research interests include the history of education. She is currently completing a doctorate with the Open University on the topic of pupil insurgency in English public schools, 1768–1868.