Previous Courses and Tutors

A miscellany of conservation techniques / Tony Cains

Archaeology of the Medieval Book / Nicholas Hadgraft and Jim Bloxam

Atlas and maps: Techniques of structure and compensation / Pamela Spritzmuller

Bibliography in a medieval library / Nicolas Barker

Book handling and refurbishing / Cheryl Porter

Bugs, insects and unwanted guests / Caroline Checkley

Byzantine and Islamic Bindings / Nicholas Hadgraft and Jim Bloxam

Cataloguing a medieval library / Julie Simpson

Conservation of prints and drawings / Louise Drover and Jane Hinwood

Environmental control in libraries and archives / Bob Childs

Ethiopian Bindings Workshop / John Mumford / Caroline Checkley-Scott

Folders, phase boxes, book shoes / Graham Gardiner

Girdles, Books and Prayers / Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson

History of parchment making / Leandro Gotscher

Introduction to bookbinding / Sarah Bunn

Late 18th century French Binding Structures / Jeff Peachey

Limp vellum bindings / Vendulka Cejchan

Materials for conservation / Graham Gardiner

Materials for preservation / Graham Gardiner

Medieval colours / Cheryl Porter

Mould – identification and treatment / David Parker

Multi-quire, wooden boarded codex from Egypt / Pamela Spitzmueller

Origins of Byzantine book structures / John Sharpe

Packing and the oxygen-free environment / Stuart Welch

Parchment: history, features and new techniques for repair / Tony Cains

Pasteboard, pulpboard and 16th century bookbinding / Tony Cains

Photographic identification, Conservation and storage / David Parker

Pigments and their use in manuscripts / Cheryl Porter

Preservation of historic libraries / Nicolas Barker

Reconstruction of 16-17th century parchment binding with raised sewing supports covered with alum-tawed leather / Nadine Dumain and Leila Sauvage

Recording the structure of the medieval book / Nicholas Hadgraft and Jim Bloxam

Recreating the colours on the Medieval palette: Western, Hebrew and Islamic / Cheryl Porter

Re-creating the medieval Palette / Cheryl Porter

Safina bindings / Kristine Rose-Beers and Fatma Aslanoglu

The girdle book / Nicholas Hadgraft and Jim Bloxam

Working with large scale objects / Jean Brown