LRBS Blog Series
'An intensive yet enjoyable week' - LRBS Student Reflections from our Summer School Buxi Duan is one of the recipients of this year’s LRBS bursary to attend the module ‘Using Publishers’ Archives’. Having recently finished his PhD on the British modernist writer D. H. Lawrence, Buxi is thinking about his next project and signed up this course to gain some more insights and different perspectives. After this ‘intensive yet enjoyable’ week, as he summarised, Buxi wrote this blog post reflecting on his learning experience at LRBS. | |
Summer schools and short courses at the Institute of English Studies Professor Clare Lees, Director of the Institute of English Studies, and the Directors of LRBS and LIPS, along with tutors and students reflect on the 2021 IES summer schools. | 
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Senate House Library and the London Rare Books School
by Karen Attar, SHL
Karen Attar selects a book from among the many treasures found in the Special Collections in Senate House Library, and reveals its interest for a number of London Rare Books School courses |
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An Interview with Simon Eliot, the Founding Director of the London Rare Books School
Interviewed by Andrew Nash
"From the very start LRBS was very keen to give its students access to experts, which was not difficult because we needed to immerse students in manuscript and printed materials, and who better to help explain them than the archivists and librarians who were responsible for them?" |
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An Interview with Karen Attar, SHL Curator of Rare Books
by Karen Attar, SHL
"No matter what course they are studying, students on the London Rare Books School benefit from opportunities to work with rare books and manuscripts, along with all kinds of book-related objects, from writing utensils to printing machines" |
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Previous LRBS Blogs
The London Rare Book School 2019: a student-invigilator perspective.
by Gillian Neale |
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Plus ca Change Book Reviews and the Woman Writer
by Anne Welsh |
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The London Rare Books School 2018: A Library Viewpoint
by Karen Attar |
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by Aislinn Kelly | 
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by Kelsey Champagne |
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