April 25, 2023 – History of the Book

Marker and charcoal drawing 'Deportation' by Charlotte Buresova. A group of people with their heads down carry their belongings in bags and sacks on their backs. In the foreground two older men and an older women, behind them a younger mother with a child, the rest of the goup fading into the implied background, where a cart with two people on it can be destinguished.

Exhibition ‘In Times of Strife’

An Exhibition held in the Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution Library, Oxford University, 28 April 2023 to 12 May 2023. This small exhibition marks the publication of Charles Webster, In Times of Strife, Treasures of the Taylorian Series Three: Cultural Memory 5. It brings together holdings of the Taylor Institution Library and of Charles Webster’s personal …

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Books of the Hartlib Network

A presentation by Charles Webster at the Weston Library Coffee Morning on 28 April 2023 on the occasion of the launch of his book In Times of Strife. Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600–1662) was a man of science and an agricultual and educational reformer, who relocated in the 1630s from Elbing (Royal Prussia) to London on …