Past Munby Fellows

2022-23:
Dr Majid Daneshgar - Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global Impact of the Erpenius Collection

Dr Nora Moroney - An Irish Book Collector? The Henry Bradshaw Collection in Context

2021-22:
Heather Wolfe, MPhil, PhD (Cambridge), MLIS (UCLA) – Decoding early modern writing paper

2020-21:
Laure Miolo, Ph.D. (University Lyon II) – Reading, writing and annotating astronomical manuscripts in 15th-century Cambridge: John Holbroke and Lewis of Caerleon, their books, milieux and networks.

Edwin Rose, Ph.D. (Cambridge) – Empire, nature and the book in eighteenth-century Cambridge.

2019-20:
Andrew Dunning, B.A. (Ottawa), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) – Networking textual communities in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England.

2018-19:
Gill Partington, M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D. (London) – Moveable books.

2017-18:
Dennis Duncan, M.A. (Manchester), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London) – Reader indexes in printed books.

2016-17:
Nick Hardy, M.St., D.Phil. (Oxford) – A study of the King James Bible (1611) in relation to contemporary biblical scholarship and theological debate.

2015-16:
Kathryn James, M.Sc., D.Phil. (Oxford), M.L.I.S. (Pittsburgh) – John Strype’s study of Matthew Parker and the Parker Library.

2014-15:
Boris Jardine, M. Phil (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Cambridge) – The book as instrument, 1550–1720.

2013-14:
Anke Timmermann, Ph.D. (Cambridge) – Illuminating nature: alchemical illustrations in Cambridge manuscripts.

2012-13:
Elizabeth Upper, M.A. (Courtauld Institute of Art), Ph.D. (Cambridge) – Colour-printed book Illustrations in Tudor England, 1485-1603.

2011-12:
M Curran, M.A. (Leeds), Ph.D. (Leeds) – The French book trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794.

2010-11:
D Imhof, M.A. (Antwerp), Ph.D. (Antwerp) – Publishing in Antwerp around 1600; the editorial strategies of Jan Moretus I at the Plantin Press with an annotated bibliography of all of his editions (1589-1610).

2009-10:
D Adams, M.A. (Ontario), Ph.D. (Cambridge) – The printers and publishers of the London Leveller movement, 1641-1660.

2008-09:
D Serjeantson, M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Dublin) – Petrarch and the early-modern English reader: a case-study in the printing and circulation of the Babylon sonnets.

2007-08:
A Worm, M.A., D.Phil (Augsburg) – The Study of Medieval Manuscripts Illumination in the Eighteenth Century: Jean-Joseph Rive and his impact on France and England.

2006-07:
H J Vorholt, M.A. (Berlin) – Encyclopaedic compilations from the formative period of monastic libraries in England. 

2005-06:
G Di Bacco, Dottorato di Ricerca (Pavia) – Music and music theory manuscripts in Cambridge libraries.

2004-05:
S C Reynolds, M.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. ( London) – A catalogue of the manuscripts of Latin classical authors in the library of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall.

2003-04:
A Gillespie, B.A. (Wellington), M.A., M.St., D. Phil (Oxford) – The books of John Stow (1525-1605).

 F C Henderson, B.A., M.A (Melbourne) – An annotated finding-list of manuscript miscellanies of Cambridge provenance, 1600-1700.

2002-03:
J S Craig, B.A., M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Cambridge) – An inventory of books in English parish churches, 1530-1640.

2001-02:
S West, B.A. (Cambridge) – Living with books; the Norfolk elite and their libraries, 1660-1830.

2000-01:
P A Botley, B.A. (Reading), M.A. (York), Ph.D (Cambridge) - Learning Greek in Western Europe, 1471-1529.

1999-00:
I. A. Gadd, M.A. (Edinburgh), M.Studies, D.Phil (Oxford) - Ecclesiastical law and the early modern English book trade.

1998-99:
C. L. Hutton, B.A. (London), M.Phil ( Dublin) - The rise of catholic nationalism: A study of Irish textual culture in the 1840s.

1997-98:
S. Avery-Quash, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge) - The irresistible rise of colour printing from wood-blocks: a reassessment of the middle period 1850-70.

K. A. Lowe, B.A. ( Nottingham), Ph.D. (Cambridge) - Charter scribes at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds: Evidence for the East Anglian variety of early middle English.

1996-97:
D. A. J. Cockburn, B.A. (Leics.), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cambridge) - Joseph Mead, his pupils and the Cambridge book trade.

1995-96:
A. C. Buchanan, B.A., M.Sc. (London) - The Cambridge influence of Robert Willis.

1994-95:
F. M. Lewis, B.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (London) - The transmission of indulgenced texts and images in manuscript and printed books of hours for English use.

1993-94:
D. K. Money, B.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) - Neo-Latin poetry in Cambridge.

1992-93:
J. R. Topham, M.A. (Cambridge) - Scientific publishing at the Cambridge University Press under John William Parker, 1829-1854.

1991-92:
Alain Arnould, M.A. (Ghent) - Flemish manuscripts and in cunabula in Cambridge collections.

1990-91:
A. D. S. Johns, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge) - Science, philosophy and the book-trade in early modern England.

Jo-Ann E. McEachern, Ph.D. (Toronto) - Bibliography of eighteenth-century editions of the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

1989-90:
J. R. Raven, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge) - The Culture of the Book in Britain 1750-1820.

1988-89:
No election.

1987-88:
P. A. Hopkins, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge) - The writing and publishing of Jacobite propaganda, pamphlets and books, in England during the reign of William III (1689-1702).

1986-87:
H. H. R. Love, B.A. (Queensland), Ph.D. (Cambridge) - The persistence of scribal transmission of literature in 17th century England.

1985 -86:
J. P. Carley, B.A. (Victoria), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Toronto) - John Leland, the manuscripts of Glastonbury Abbey’s monastic library and the libraries of Cambridge and East Anglia.

1984-85:
F. J. Korsten, M.A., Ph.D. (Nijmegen) - Thomas Baker (1656-1740) as book-collector and bibliographer.

1983-84:
B. J. McMullin, M.A. (New Zealand), M.L.S. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Leeds) - Aspects of the Bible trade in Britainin the 17th and 18th centuries.

1982-83:
P. R. Robinson, B.A. (London), B.Litt. ( Oxford) - A catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts in Cambridge libraries.

1981-82:
A. D. Barker, B.A., Ph.D. (Oxford) - Bibliographical and textual problems of The Gentleman’s Magazine.

1980-81:
H. Amory, A.B., L.L.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. ( Columbia) - Selected topics in Fielding bibliography.

1979-80:
K. I. D. Maslen, B.Litt. (Oxford), M.A. ( New Zealand) - The Bowyer Press printing ledgers.

1978-79:
D. D. Eddy, M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) - Various pieces of 18th century bibliographical research (Johnson, Dodsley, Shebbeare, Bower, Brown).

1977-78:
J. P. Feather, M.A., B.Litt. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Loughborough) - The country book trade in 18th century England.