Panizzi Lectures
The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures given at the British Library by "eminent scholars of the book" and named after the librarian Anthony Panizzi. They are considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series alongside the Sandars Lectures at the University of Cambridge and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University.Lectures
- 1985 D. F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the sociology of texts
- 1986 T. A. Birrell: English monarchs and their books: from Henry VII to Charles II
- 1987 K. W. Humphreys: A national library in theory and in practice
- 1988 Giles Barber: Daphnis and Chloë: the markets and metamorphoses of an unknown bestseller
- 1989 J. P. Gumbert: The Dutch and their books in the manuscript age
- 1990 J. B. Trapp: Erasmus, Colet and More: the early Tudor humanists and their books
- 1991 : The English book in eighteenth-century Germany
- 1992 : Hebrew manuscripts of East and West: towards a comparative codicology
- 1993 C. G. C. Tite: The manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton
- 1994 Iain Fenlon: Music, print and culture in early sixteenth-century Italy
- 1995 David Woodward: Maps as prints in the Italian Renaissance: makers, distributors & consumers
- 1996 Charles Burnett: The introduction of Arabic learning into England
- 1997 Mirjam M. Foot: The history of bookbinding as a mirror of society
- 1998 Roger Chartier: Publishing drama in early modern Europe
- 1999 Glen Dudbridge: Lost books of medieval China
- 2000 Michael Twyman: Breaking the mould: the first hundred years of lithography
- 2001 Nicolas Barker: "Things not reveal'd": the mutual impact of idea and form in the transmission of verse 2000 B.C. – A.D. 1500
- 2002 Christopher Ricks: T. S. Eliot's revisions After publication
- 2003 Antony Griffiths: Prints for Books, French Book Illustration 1760–1800
- 2004 María Luisa López-Vidriero: The polished cornerstones of the Temple: queenly libraries of the Enlightenment
- 2005 Will Ryan: The magic of Russia
- 2006 Christopher Pinney: The coming of photography to India
- 2007 Jonathan J. G. Alexander: Italian Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the collections of the British Library
- 2008 Nicholas Pickwoad: Reading bindings: bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books
- 2009 Anthony Grafton: The culture of correction in Renaissance Europe
- 2010 James Raven: London booksites: Places of printing and publication before 1800
- 2011 Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous: The publication of plays in eighteenth-century London: playwrights, publishers, and the market
- 2012 Brian Richardson: Women, books and communities in Renaissance Italy
- 2013 Robert Darnton: Censors at work: Bourbon France, Imperialist India and Communist East Germany
- 2014 Christopher de Hamel: The giant bibles of twelfth-century England
- 2015 David McKitterick: The invention of rare books
- 2016 Rowan Williams: British libraries: the literary world of post-Roman Britain
- 2017 Germaine Greer: The poetry of Sappho
- 2018 Laurie Maguire: The rhetoric of the page: reading blank space
- 2019 Ann Blair: Paratexts and Print in Renaissance Humanism