BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:552@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T173000 DTSTAMP:20260918T151613Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/odious-in-woollen/ SUMMARY:“Odious! In Woollen!”: Blank Precedents and the London Statione rs\, 1690-1830 DESCRIPTION:\nTwenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the B ook Trade\nLecture by Dennis Duncan\, Associate Professor\, University Col lege London\nThis paper begins with a collection of four dozen Burying in Woollen affidavits from the village of Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire\, dati ng from the first decade of the eighteenth century to the last. Each affid avit testifies to a burial in the village\, and an oath taken by a relativ e of the deceased that the body was wrapped in nothing other than wool. Th ese are roughly-printed\, single-sheet forms\, illustrated with crude wood cuts of skulls and cadavers. They were printed seventy miles away in Londo n.\n\nWhat can the stationery of a country rector tell us about the practi ces of the London printers\, how they advertised\, and how the blank prece dentꟷwhat we might today call a formꟷoffered rich\, ever-changing oppo rtunities to supplement their book work?\n\nDennis Duncan is a writer and Associate Professor in English at University College London. His books inc lude Book Parts (with Adam Smyth\, Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, and I ndex\, A History of the (W. W. Norton\, 2022). The latter was a New York T imes bestseller and was listed as one of the Books of the Year in the New York Times\, TIME magazine\, the Washington Post\, and the Financial Times . It has been translated into nine languages. He writes regularly for the New York Times\, the London Review of Books\, the Guardian\, and the Times Literary Supplement. His current research concerns ephemera and the histo ry of collecting. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.\n\n\n\nT he registration form will post here approximately one month in advance of the program. This event is free to attend with advance registration and wi ll be held in-person at the Clark Library. Seating is limited. Walk-in reg istrants are welcome as space permits. The registration form will be poste d here approximately one month in advance of the program.\n\nThe lecture w ill be livestreamed and the recording will be available to watch on the Ce nter’s YouTube channel for one year following the event. Registration is not required to watch the livestream.\n\n\n\nImage: Jacob Giles\, The Mod ern Justice (London: J. Tonson\, 1720)\, p. 90 [Clark Library Rare Book St acks\; K J15mo 1720]. CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UCLA Willi am Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR