Codex Conservation

28/03/2025

07/01/2025

Check out the latest news on the Codex Conservation website:
http://www.codexconservation.com/latest-news.html
It now features a video on the Latymer Archive Project working on the collection of Latymer Upper School

13/11/2024

We are hiring! Are you looking for a flexible part-time job as a book conservator in the London area? If so we are looking for you.

Book Conservator/Conservation Assistant
Codex Conservation Ltd (Independent Workshop), South East London

Do you want to work on a broad variety of books and archival material and expand your practical skills? Working alongside an accredited conservator in a small, independent workshop, you would be required to perform conservation treatments on rare books and manuscripts, and other archival material including archival drawings, modern printed materials and parchment, providing high quality professional services to museums, libraries, archives and private owners.

Pay is dependent on experience, freelance basis. This part time role is flexible, hours can be arranged to suit.

Key skills required:
• High level practical skills are essential, with excellent attention to detail.
• Post-graduate qualification in Book and Archives Conservation, or relevant professional experience within bookbinding or book and archives conservation with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
• Experience of time management and record keeping. This should include photographic documentation, condition reporting and estimating.
• Experience of a range of conservation treatments, from preservation storage, in situ repairs to binding reconstruction.
• Demonstrable experience in a variety of materials preferably including leather, paper and parchment.
• Working familiarity with the history of bookbinding structures and materials.
• Able to work independently and as part of a small team. Strong communication skills are a must.
• Confident using MS Office and online project management tools.
• Permission to work in the UK.

How to apply:
Please send a few images of your work, along with your
CV and a cover letter and 2 references to [email protected]
Please write 'Book Conservator Role' in the subject line of your email.

Are you looking for flexible part time work as a book conservator? Do you like working on a wide variety of material within a small and friendly team. Please click on the link below for the full job...

01/08/2024

La vie en Lyon! Limonade Lavender and retro goodness

17/11/2023

31/10/2023

Click here to see a BBC news reel on the latest Impact Heritage CIC project:

https://www.facebook.com/kath.maguire1/posts/10159204202880213?mibextid=uyAsYr

This is amazing! Well don't to the entire team who made it possible for this wonderful diaries to be gifted to Kresen Kernow. Thank you especially to https://www.nmct.co.uk/ for their support.

The Wi******er Bible, the finest of the great Romanesque Bibles, was crafted in Wi******er in the mid 1100s. In 2013 NMCT awarded a grant towards the first volume of this magnificent Bible.

22/09/2023

It's been wonderful working alongside the team at Chartwell. What dynamic volunteers, I learnt so much from the stewards in this incredible house. Well worth a visit.

11/08/2023

It has been a huge pleasure to teach this week's group on behalf of Montefiascone Conservation Project. They worked incredibly hard to produce 3(!) incredible Early Modern parchment stationery bindings. So friendly and curious, I couldn't have hoped for a better group from 7 different countries. Thank you all especially our favourite book elf Heather Marshall and Cheryl Porter for making it such a wonderful experience.

07/08/2023

07/08/2023

14/07/2023

26/05/2023

The final day at the Actors' Benevolent Fund Archives. It has been very satisfying bringing conservation onsite to perform localised repairs in situ. Special thanks to Natasha, the Archivist, we wouldn't have been able to get so much done without her incredible planning

17/03/2023

A useful little video on how to do join new thread when sewing that Ann & I made this week. Maybe it can help some other burgeoning bookbinders.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYHsBRTY/

How to join a new sewing thread on a book block

04/03/2023

Check out this video made by the about the book collection and its care in Townend
Made for it features my treatment of one of the volumes.

For hundreds of years, Townend in Cumbria has been home to a historically significant book collection made up of around 1,500 books. 45 of these are entirely...