Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries

This article investigates the surviving borrowers’ catalogues (c.1850–70) of the Allendale lead-miners’ libraries, situating these within the wider history of workplace libraries in the North-East of England. It considers popular reading habits in this community and the patterns of borrowing among i...

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Main Author: Kirstie Blair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2022-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/10997