Martin Killeen
University of Birmingham
Martin is a qualified librarian with a degree in Philosophy and English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies. He began my professional career in the Main Library of the University of Birmingham, where he managed public service departments including the Language, Literature and History Reading Room; in 1996 he joined Special Collections where he was Rare Books Librarian at the Cadbury Research Library until retirement at the end 2020. A major part of his role involved exploiting the rich resources of the repository (printed books, archives and manuscripts) to support teaching, learning and research in Book History and across all the disciplines within the University and beyond; this included delivering talks and presentations, leading seminars with original materials and publishing papers based on local holdings (eg, John Baskerville’s type, Charles Dickens manuscripts and Birmingham during ww1). His is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the University and is currently engaged on projects with the Baskerville Society related to the copy of Matthew Boulton's Baskerville Bible at the Cadbury Research Library.
