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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/odious-in-woollen/
SUMMARY:“Odious! In Woollen!”: Blank Precedents and the London Statione
 rs\, 1690-1830
DESCRIPTION:Twenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Boo
 k Trade\nLecture by Dennis Duncan\, Associate Professor\, University Colle
 ge London\nIn eighteenth-century England\, even the fabric in which you we
 re buried required paperwork. The law required the dead to be wrapped in w
 ool to support the wool trade\, and a relative had to make a sworn stateme
 nt confirming that this had been done. Printers supplied forms with the st
 atement already printed\, leaving spaces for names\, dates\, and other det
 ails to be entered by hand.\nIn this lecture\, Dennis Duncan will trace th
 e story of four dozen surviving burial forms from the village of Upper Hey
 ford in Oxfordshire. These roughly printed documents\, each on a single sh
 eet and illustrated with crude woodcuts of skulls and cadavers\, span the 
 eighteenth century. All were printed seventy miles away in London.\nFollow
 ing these sheets from a country rector’s records back to London’s prin
 ting shops\, Duncan will explore who produced them\, how they advertised a
 nd sold them\, and how the “blank precedent\,” what we would today cal
 l a form\, offered rich\, ever-changing opportunities to supplement their 
 book work. The lecture will show how ordinary paperwork can reveal a histo
 ry of printing that books alone cannot tell\, connecting the working lives
  of printers with the legal requirements and burial practices of a rural c
 ommunity.\nDennis Duncan is a writer and Associate Professor in English at
  University College London. His books include Book Parts (with Adam Smyth\
 , Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, and Index\, A History of the (W. W. No
 rton\, 2022). The latter was a New York Times 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 nin
 e languages. He writes regularly for the New York Times\, the London Revie
 w of Books\, the Guardian\, and the Times Literary Supplement. His current
  research concerns ephemera and the history of collecting. He is a Fellow 
 of the Royal Historical Society.\n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend with 
 advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Seat
 ing is limited. Walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registra
 tion will close on Monday\, November 2\, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.\n\nThe lecture 
 will be livestreamed and the recording will be available to watch on the C
 enter’s YouTube channel for one year following the event. Registration i
 s not required to watch the livestream.\n\n\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Il
 lustrated Burial in Woollen Affidavit for Anne Wadney\, Upper Hey
 ford\, Oxfordshire\, 1706.
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LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252
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