Libraries, Reading Communities & Cultural Formation in the 18th century Atlantic is an AHRC-funded history project based at the University of Liverpool
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Delighted to share that Part 1 of our Special Issue of Library & Information History @CILIP_LIHG is available, featuring articles by team members @sophiehjones1 @MaxSkjonsberg and @SBurrowsFBTEE - link below 👇
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Day 2 of #LibsLivesConf is underway bright and early at @LivUniHistory this morning 🌞☕️ @MJRSangster and Norbert Schurer are getting us started by thinking about libraries as institutions
Our first panel of the afternoon sees Brittani Ivan discussing the Australian Subscription Library (now @statelibrarynsw) and @rjdashwood thinking about female readers 📚 #LibsLivesConf
@kylebroberts and @millerlaurac18 demonstrated how the @C18thLibraries database can inform understandings of the spread of religious knowledge⛪️🙏and health knowledge 🧑⚕️🏥 in the 18thC #LibsLivesConf
Really excited to be hosting our #LibsLivesConf at @livuni today. Huge thanks to @books_borrowing for kicking the day off with a showcase of their project database 🧑💻📚
Huge thanks to @SMCoulombeau @C18AH & Kandice Sharren for wrapping up Day 1 of #LibsLivesConf with their roundtable #digitalhumanities
1/2 🚨We’re delighted to announce that registrations are now open for our hybrid conference at eventbrite.co.uk/e/libraries… The conference programme can be viewed at tinyurl.com/LibrariesLivesLe…
Our latest blog, written by our fantastic project intern Lucy, looks at the scandalous Bent brothers - members at the Warrington Circulating Library 📚📜
tinyurl.com/BentBrothers @ECWLiv @livuniHSS @LivUniHistory @livuni @livuniresthemes #bookhistory
To mark #IndependenceDay in the US, July's #BookoftheMonth Blog by team member @sophiehjones1 looks at the reception of Carver’s 'Travels' amongst our 18thC readers: tinyurl.com/Carvers-Travels 📚🇺🇸
Stay tuned for details of our Book of the Month session in July - all are welcome!⏰
Proud to work with our project partners: @UnionHatboro @nysoclib @librarycompany #LibraryCompanyofBurlington @Lpoolcentlib @thelinenhall @BristolLibrary @bmi1854 @statelibrarynsw 🙏
We're hiring! Really exciting opportunity to join the team working on #c18th subscription libraries, researching books, contributing to the database and taking part in exciting plans for exhibitions and workshops next year.
Delighted to announce a great opportunity for a recent phd in #c18literature #bookhistory to join @C18thLibraries @LivUniHistory working on the circulation of non-Anglophone texts at #c18th subscription libraries. Funded by @MHRABooks pdra fellowship. jobs.ac.uk/job/CQQ619/post-d…
Many congratulations to team member @MaxSkjonsberg for a terrific review of his monograph!
Delighted about this new review by Andrew C. Thompson in @IHRjournal. "Skjönsberg has produced an important and well-written book. It brings together persuasive readings of the major authors on party in eighteenth-century Britain". tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Many congratulations to @MaxSkjonsberg on completing this mammoth task for the @C18thLibraries project! Watch this space! @BristolLibrary
This week I finished the transcription of all the loans at the Bristol Library Society between 1773 & 1795: 11 volumes of registers, 6 microfilms, 30,402 loans. Plenty for me to write and think about. In due course, everyone can view the data online via @C18thLibraries.
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Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey borrowed books together at the Bristol Library Society. On 1 June 1795, they checked out vols. 1&2 of the Prussian Biblical scholar John David Michaelis's Introduction to the New Testament, translated from German into English by Herbert Marsh.
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On 6 April 1795, Robert Southey signed for himself and for William Coleridge when he checked out Robert Burn's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1787) and the first volume of William Robertson's History of the Reign of Charles V (1769).
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Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey sometimes borrowed books together at the Bristol Library Society in the 1790s. On 20 April 1795, they borrowed volumes one and two of Gilbert Burnet's History of His Own Times.
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Samuel Coleridge's first loan at the Bristol Library Society on 2 March 1795: volume three of "Poetical Tracts", a composite volume bound by the library which included Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poems on slavery, among others poems.
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The Romantic poet Robert Southey's first loan at the Bristol Library Society: on 22 Oct 1793, Southey checked out the first volume of William Enfield's History of Philosophy from the Earliest Periods (1791). @BristolLibrary @C18thLibraries
