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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| description | 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 individuals, suggesting that these give us insight into the way in which working-class readers used libraries, especially those founded through management initiatives, and their reading preferences in the mid-Victorian period. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35ed336d30b94c4ebf51573d7fe124fa2022-12-22T00:49:50ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492022-03-019510.4000/cve.10997Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ LibrariesKirstie BlairThis 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 individuals, suggesting that these give us insight into the way in which working-class readers used libraries, especially those founded through management initiatives, and their reading preferences in the mid-Victorian period.http://journals.openedition.org/cve/10997history of readinglibrary historyworking-class literatureNorthumberlandmining |
| spellingShingle | Kirstie Blair Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens history of reading library history working-class literature Northumberland mining |
| title | Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries |
| title_full | Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries |
| title_fullStr | Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries |
| title_short | Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries |
| title_sort | working class readers and literary culture in north east england the allendale lead miners libraries |
| topic | history of reading library history working-class literature Northumberland mining |
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