William Hale

Rare Books Specialist

Directorate: Research Collections

Division: Special Collections

Department: Rare Books and Early Manuscripts

William Hale has worked on the rare book collections at the University Library since 2006, with particular emphasis on those relating to the French Enlightenment and Ireland. He ran the five-year project re-cataloguing the Incunabula collections online, and is currently working on the Cliff Webb collection of locally-published material.

Publications:

'Robert Shackleton and the Shackleton Collection’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 83, no. 1 (2001), pp. 169-182.
‘Hibernica from the Library at Florence Court’, co-authored with Mark Purcell, National Trust Historic Houses and Collections Annual 2008, pp. 30-35.
‘Incunabula on the Increase: The Development of Cambridge University Library's Incunabula Collections after 1954’, co-authored with Emily Dourish, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. 15, part 1 (2012), pp. 165-174.
Treasures from Lord Fairhaven’s Library at Anglesey Abbey, co-authored with Mark Purcell & David Pearson (Swindon: National Trust, 2013).
‘“Concerning a Book Supposed to have been Printed by Coster”’, in Emprynted In Thys Manere: Early Printed Treasures from Cambridge University Library, edited by Ed Potten & Emily Dourish (Cambridge: The University Library, 2014).
“Painters, Limners, Writers and Bookbinders: Matthew Parker’s Printed Books”, paper delivered to the History of Libraries Seminar, University of London, and Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, 2 June 2015.

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