The London Renaissance Seminar held a 1 day symposium, “Learning from Early Modern Books,” on June 7 at Birkbeck, jointly organised by Associate Professor Trisha Pender and Professor Susan Wiseman. The symposium brought together three large team projects in early modern studies: the ARC-funded Transforming the Early Modern Archive and Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer (led by Ros Smith), and the Leverhulme-funded Written Worlds (led by Sue Wiseman). CEMS members Hannah Upton, Julia Rodwell and Ros Smith gave papers in one of the 5 sessions, and Professor Adam Smyth ended the day with a brilliant keynote based on research for his new book, The Book Makers. We were delighted that members of John Emmerson’s family, David, Chloe and James Emmerson, were able to attend the event and to hear research based on the Emmerson collection at State Library Victoria by Anna Welch and Paul Salzman.