Sponsored by The Book Club of California Explore the physical materials, production process, ownership, and readership of medieval manuscripts from 800-1500 in Western Europe in this online presentation. Participants will learn about parchment-making, medieval ink and pigment ingredients, methods for illumination and decoration, and the culture of scriptoria with a special focus on women scribes. […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California "A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)" is an illustrated biography and detailed look into the life of Japanese American civil rights leader Sei Fujii, known for overturning the California Alien Land Law in 1952 and founding the Japanese American newspaper Kashu Mainichi […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California in association with Rare Books LA-Palm Springs Begun in 2019, the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible the LGBTQ+ History of the Greater Palm Springs Area. This presentation provides a brief overview of how and why the Archives began, […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), San Francisco author, historian, and club secretary from 1921-1946. Awards for achievement in Western History and the Book Arts are awarded each year. The Book Club of California […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday June 13, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person event and Livestream on Zoom Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California June 20, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person exhibition opening and Livestream on Zoom Poets, scribes, and printers throughout history have taken advantage of the fact that poetry is both a visual and a verbal art. From the collection of the Book Club of […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America and The Book Club of California “Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries” Monday, July 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:15 pm Pacific Time Speaker: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library Located in Central London on the banks of the Thames, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Los Angeles time | A live online via Zoom and in-person event Join us in-person or online via Zoom to view seldom seen photographs from the Book Club archives and help us identify the members and […]