ABOUT...
Ann-Marie Miller ACR, MA, has been a practicing book and and archives conservator for over 20 years. She first studied the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, followed by a post-graduate diploma and masters in Conservation at Camberwell College, London. 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 including the House of Lords and the Wellcome Trust Library, alongside undertaking an internship with Frederick Bearman ACR. Ann-Marie then worked as a book conservator at the British Library from 2004 until 2011, gaining experience 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.
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 is a professional assessor for the Institute of Conservation and active mentor of applicants to the accreditation scheme. She 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 has recently 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. She has recently worked on architectural plans, Japanese Bindings, Hebrew incunabula, ephemera, seventeenth-century medical tracts and a number of leather and parchment account and stationery bindings. Her clients include large institutions such as: the Royal Horticultural Society, the Museum of London, the Charterhouse Museum, Westminster School Archives, Dulwich College Archives, the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, antiquarian book dealers and private collectors.
Ann-Marie set up Codex Conservation in 2011 and has enjoyed working for a broad variety of clients ever since. She has recently worked on architectural plans, Japanese Bindings, Hebrew incunabula, ephemera, seventeenth-century medical tracts and a number of leather and parchment account and stationery bindings. Her clients include large institutions such as: the Royal Horticultural Society, the Museum of London, the Charterhouse Museum, Westminster School Archives, Dulwich College Archives, the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, antiquarian book dealers and private collectors.
Codex Conservation has a professional listing on the Conservation Register.
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Codex Conservation has a professional listing on the Conservation Register.
Please scan the QR code for a direct link.
Here are links to the some recent publications by Ann-Marie Miller:
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/
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/
