Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Josh Smith

Political Readers and the Associational Reading Space: Starting a PhD on Library Records

by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the purpose and act of reading remains intrinsically personal to the individual reader. Yet library borrowing records are one of the clearest sources available to those assessing which printed publications historical audiences engaged with. Of course, […]

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