TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER & WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2025
TIME: 5PM TO 6PM
LOCATION: In-person at the Umney Theatre, Robinson College & live-streamed using Zoom Webinars
What will survive of us, with Joan Winterkorn MBE
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be appointed. Those elected deliver a series of lectures on their chosen subject.
Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, Joan Winterkorn MBE will shed light on the evolution of the buying and selling of archives since the 1970s. From influencing government policy to navigating trade deals, Joan will reveal how this often-overlooked corner of the book world has safeguarded some of the UK’s most significant literary, theatrical, scientific and political archives.
Lecture 1: Tuesday 11 November 2025, 5-6pm (followed by a drinks reception at Cambridge University Library)
Lecture 2: Wednesday 12 November 2025, 5-6pm
About the speaker: Joan has been an independent advisor on archives and manuscripts since 2012. She began her career as an archivist in London and then a rare book librarian at Cornell University before joining Bernard Quaritch Ltd in 1979. For more than four decades she has handled the valuation and sale of literary, historical, political, scientific and business archives.
If you have any enquiries about the series, please direct these to researchdevelopment@lib.cam.ac.uk.