Friend of the Athenaeum. Dr Mark Towsey, along with colleagues from the University of Liverpool will be taking part in a Seminar on ‘The History Of Libraries’ on Tuesday 3 November. Full details on how to register your attendance via zoom can be found below!
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES
The next seminar in this series will take place on Tuesday 3 November at 5.30 p.m. BST on Zoom.
Attendance is free but booking is essential here : https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23035
Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic: A New Database Project
Mark Towsey, Sophie Jones, Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool)
This paper introduces the work of a major new AHRC-funded project which explores in unprecedented range and depth the role played by voluntary subscription libraries in the reading lives of communities and individuals across the British Isles and North America between 1731 and 1800. Team members will reflect on key questions of database design before outlining some of the ways in which catalogues and circulation records can be used to shed dramatic new light on the role played by libraries in disseminating books and ideas in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.
The following seminar will take place on 1st December: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars/history-libraries-seminar