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An Evening with John Blanke at The College of Arms

12/8/2017

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Feedback from The College of Arms John Blanke Project Live! event Friday 1st December  2017

Another inspiring evening JB email
Great event....really informative BF email
An amazing evening shared EC Facebook
An outstanding evening SA Facebook
Wonderful! MK email
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An Evening with John Blanke at The British Library

11/5/2017

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Feedback from The British Library John Blanke Project Live! event Friday 3rd November 2017

[The] project has really taken off and become a serious part of the cultural landscape of London. It was quite an evening and without being too dramatic I had the sense of a great future for the project. A sterling cast of presenters and some truly inspiration words and work. Email MA

a really inspiring evening email FK  a very enjoyable and successful evening  email KC a great night!  Twitter MK
 
[The] project [came] to life in a small space in one of the most eminent locations in the country. Those who came helped make the evening inspiring, memorable, and [took] pride in being a contributor. Email EC
 
Really enjoyed the evening…… Thought the spoken word guys and the mr fowakan were really powerful WhatsApp PB
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John Blanke Project Flyer - June 2017

8/16/2017

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The Westminster Tournament Roll  - A Bargain at £30 for a piece of printing and Tudor history.

7/28/2017

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My usual study room in the British Library is Humanities 1 so it was really odd for me  to have to go to Rare Manuscripts to read Sydney Anglo’s 2 volume work The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster on the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll -  it meant that this was no ordinary book.
 
Books in  Rare Manuscripts are there for the obvious reason  or if they are expensive, I believed it was for the latter reason The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster was there . However having recently purchased a brand-new-still-in-orginal-packaging copy for £30 at the College of Arms I’m rethinking why it has to be in Rare Manuscripts.
 
That £30 price tag is its original 1968 published price.
 
The College of Arms price has remained unchanged since that time. I know that because I was told so and my copy was still in its original brown paper wrapping, as befits such an expensive book, and it smelt and looked 49 years old. There was one further telling indication of the price - a label stuck to the inside front cover stating £30.00, 600s net UK, hints of the decimalisation to come in 1971.
 
Little surprise that the 2 volume work The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster was carefully wrapped in brown paper as today that £30 would be the equivalent of around £500 according to measuringworth.com
 
Some further idea of how values have shifted in 1968 a Renault 4 car cost between £599 and £629 which is equivalent to £9,823 and £10,315 in 2016 prices. so 5% of a mini  family car in today would around £490 we’re back to that £500 in today’s money (Cost car year you were born).

So no surprise to understand why it was to be found in the Rare Manuscripts at the British Library.
 
Its not just an historic document of an historic event its an historic document in itself being a collotype, printed by the acclaimed printer Vivian Ridler 
 
So at £30 you’re really buying genuine piece of history at a bargain price!

Michael Ohajuru
July 2017
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