Events

Professor Alison Halsall, 2026-7 Lewis Carroll Visiting Fellow, will share recent research on how Lewis Carroll and illustrator John Tenniel developed foundational visual storytelling techniques together, based on Professor Halsall's intersecting interests in visual narrative, childhood readership, and archival study.

The recent acquisition of a sixteenth-century manuscript containing copies of Katherine Parr’s Praieres or meditacions (1545) and other devotional works has prompted a new look at women as book producers and owners in early modern England and Scotland as represented in Christ Church Library’s collections.

In this study afternoon our speakers will explore the ways in which women and their books were part of devotional, intellectual, and cultural landscape and the material evidence of women’s book ownership and production.

Dr. Ziegler’s talk will be based on her experiences writing the first monographic life of the Franco-Scottish calligrapher, writer, and artist, Esther Inglis. Her talk will explore finding a topic in early modern studies, then the intricacies of doing research, and the logistics of tracing down primary and secondary materials, writing it up into a book, and seeing it through the press.

The Bible has been the most influential written text ever produced. The story of its translation is one of extraordinary human endeavour, linguistically, intellectually, technically, socially and politically. 2026 is the anniversary of the publication of the first completed edition of William Tyndale’s New Testament, freshly translated from the Greek, one of the great milestones in the production of the Bible in English.