Posted June 4th, 2010 by Dr Robyn Adams
Dr Robyn Adams, Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, has been awarded the Humfrey Wanley Fellowship at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
This fellowship is named after Humfrey Wanley, regarded as a pioneer in the study of manuscripts. As a member of staff of the Bodleian Library in the 1690s, Wanley was one of the first scholars to regard books as research materials in themselves and during this period he was instrumental in developing the skills that he would later deploy in ground-breaking publications.
Dr Adams' research project as Humfrey Wanley Fellow, entitled 'Building a Library without Walls: the Early Records of the Bodleian Library', explores the intellectual and friendship networks and spaces of the early years of the Library, developing directly from previous research on the period of Sir Thomas Bodley's diplomatic service.
