Ann-Marie Miller ACR, MA, has been a practicing book and and archives conservator for 25 years. She first studied the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, followed by post-graduate studies in Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts. Alongside this, she studied bookbinding over 3 years at the London College of Printing and worked for the Wyvern Bindery, London. After graduating, she worked for private conservators, book dealers and several large institutions, alongside undertaking an internship with Frederick Bearman ACR. Ann-Marie worked as a book conservator at the British Library from 2004 until 2011, working on one of the richest and most diverse collections in the world. She conserved items from across the collections including treasures such as the first illuminated Zoroastrian Manuscript and the Mercator Atlas. She achieved accredited status from the Institute of Conservation as a book and archives conservator in 2007. She is a mentor and assessor for the ICon Professional Accreditation Scheme and collection care advisor for the Association of Independent Museums.
As a result of her own practical experiences, she is keen to encourage the professional development of conservators and is a keen advocate of the conservation profession. She lectures about conservation practice and also teaches conservation techniques to bookbinders and conservation students and regularly hosts interns. She attained her NVQ Level 3 Learning and Development in 2009 and in 2020 completed the Leadership Launchpad Programme run by the Institute of Conservation and Think Be Do Leadership.
Ann-Marie set up Codex Conservation in 2011 and has enjoyed working for a broad variety of clients ever since. Alongside her small team at Codex Conservation Ltd., she has worked on architectural plans, Islamic manuscripts, Japanese Bindings, Hebrew incunabula, ephemera, fifteenth-century chained books and any number of leather and parchment account and stationery bindings, which is one of her specialist areas of interest. Her clients include large institutions such as: the Royal Horticultural Society, the Museum of London, the Charterhouse Museum, the National Trust, Dulwich College Archives, the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, antiquarian book dealers and private collectors. In 2020, alongside Ruth Stevens and Ian Watson, she set up Impact Heritage CIC, a not for profit supporting community archives to care for their collections, achieve funding and create paid internships for conservation graduates.www.impactheritage.uk/
Ann-Marie set up Codex Conservation in 2011 and has enjoyed working for a broad variety of clients ever since. Alongside her small team at Codex Conservation Ltd., she has worked on architectural plans, Islamic manuscripts, Japanese Bindings, Hebrew incunabula, ephemera, fifteenth-century chained books and any number of leather and parchment account and stationery bindings, which is one of her specialist areas of interest. Her clients include large institutions such as: the Royal Horticultural Society, the Museum of London, the Charterhouse Museum, the National Trust, Dulwich College Archives, the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, antiquarian book dealers and private collectors. In 2020, alongside Ruth Stevens and Ian Watson, she set up Impact Heritage CIC, a not for profit supporting community archives to care for their collections, achieve funding and create paid internships for conservation graduates.www.impactheritage.uk/
Codex Conservation Ltd. has a professional listing on the Conservation Register. Either scan the QR code or follow the link below:
www.conservationregister.com/acr-profile-page/1765/
Codex Conservation Ltd. has a professional listing on the Conservation Register. Either scan the QR code or follow the link below:
www.conservationregister.com/acr-profile-page/1765/
Here are links to the some recent publications by Ann-Marie Miller:
Blog post for the Institute of Conservation, hoping to inspire other conservators to create their own funding opportunities working with accredited museums. www.icon.org.uk/resource/looking-for-opportunities-in-lockdown-successfully-applying-for-ace-hlf-funding-as-an-individual.html?dm_i=6S6,79TM6,FZ0K41,THLCY,1
Blog post for the Institute of Conservation, hoping to inspire other conservators to create their own funding opportunities working with accredited museums. www.icon.org.uk/resource/looking-for-opportunities-in-lockdown-successfully-applying-for-ace-hlf-funding-as-an-individual.html?dm_i=6S6,79TM6,FZ0K41,THLCY,1
Ellie Darton-Moore & Ann-Marie Miller, "Creating a Sustainable Museum Within Historic Buildings and a Functioning Almshouse: The Charterhouse Museum", 2020 Studies in Conservation, Volumes 65: P60-P62
"Review of Aspects of Japanese Book Conservation for the Independent Paper Conservators’ Group London 1 October 2019, Icon News No.85, December 2019, pp24-5. https://icon.org.uk/system/files/iconnews_85_-_december_2019_web.pdf
"Conserving Parchment Bindings - Working with the Middle Temple Archive", "Bookbinder, Journal of the Society of Bookbinders", Volume 32, 2018, pp.7-14. (link will be provided when available.
"A New Approach for the Conservation of Parchment Stationery Bindings", ARC Magazine No.350, October 2018, pp.10-12 (link will be provided when available.
"Vacuum Storage Bags and Inexpensive and Convenient Tool for the Temporary Storage of Items Infested with Pests and Mould". ICon Book & Paper Group Publication 2018
thebookandpapergathering.org/2018/03/13/vacuum-storage-bags-an-inexpensive-and-convenient-tool-for-temporary-storage-of-items-infested-with-pests-and-mould/
"Conservation News People's Palace Press Cuttings Given New Lease of Life" www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/news/conservation-news--peoples-palace-press-cuttings-given-new-lease-of-life.html (an article about the conservation of an enormous stationery binding, written by the archivist, Adele Allen)
"A Team Effort - An Account of Hosting An Intern in Private Practice", ICon Book & Paper Group Publication 2017
https://thebookandpapergathering.org/2017/03/21/a-team-effort-an-account-of-hosting-an-intern-in-private-practice-2/
"The preservation of damage? The conservation treatment of a unique collection of bomb-damaged books", IIC "News in Conservation", Vol. 52, February 2016 https://www.iiconservation.org/node/6198
Lecture Review of Edward Cheese's Lecture for the Independent Conservators Group, May 2016
https://thebookandpapergathering.org/2016/05/03/course-review-reading-machines-problems-and-possibilities-in-rare-book-and-manuscript-conservation/
"Review of Aspects of Japanese Book Conservation for the Independent Paper Conservators’ Group London 1 October 2019, Icon News No.85, December 2019, pp24-5. https://icon.org.uk/system/files/iconnews_85_-_december_2019_web.pdf
"Conserving Parchment Bindings - Working with the Middle Temple Archive", "Bookbinder, Journal of the Society of Bookbinders", Volume 32, 2018, pp.7-14. (link will be provided when available.
"A New Approach for the Conservation of Parchment Stationery Bindings", ARC Magazine No.350, October 2018, pp.10-12 (link will be provided when available.
"Vacuum Storage Bags and Inexpensive and Convenient Tool for the Temporary Storage of Items Infested with Pests and Mould". ICon Book & Paper Group Publication 2018
thebookandpapergathering.org/2018/03/13/vacuum-storage-bags-an-inexpensive-and-convenient-tool-for-temporary-storage-of-items-infested-with-pests-and-mould/
"Conservation News People's Palace Press Cuttings Given New Lease of Life" www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/news/conservation-news--peoples-palace-press-cuttings-given-new-lease-of-life.html (an article about the conservation of an enormous stationery binding, written by the archivist, Adele Allen)
"A Team Effort - An Account of Hosting An Intern in Private Practice", ICon Book & Paper Group Publication 2017
https://thebookandpapergathering.org/2017/03/21/a-team-effort-an-account-of-hosting-an-intern-in-private-practice-2/
"The preservation of damage? The conservation treatment of a unique collection of bomb-damaged books", IIC "News in Conservation", Vol. 52, February 2016 https://www.iiconservation.org/node/6198
Lecture Review of Edward Cheese's Lecture for the Independent Conservators Group, May 2016
https://thebookandpapergathering.org/2016/05/03/course-review-reading-machines-problems-and-possibilities-in-rare-book-and-manuscript-conservation/
It was my absolute pleasure to present an online talk for one of the leading conservation suppliers, Preservation Equipment Ltd. We had a really mixed group of interested attendees and the whole presentation is now available for free online:
www.preservationequipment.com/Blog/Blog-Posts/How-to-describe-book-bindings-Webinar
www.preservationequipment.com/Blog/Blog-Posts/How-to-describe-book-bindings-Webinar
