...Margot Note Elizabeth   Shepherd . Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England . London : Ashgate Publishing   2009 . 260 pp.   $114.95 (hbk) , ISBN: 978 0 7546 4785 0 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> 1900s Archives Archivists England Public...

...David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act in light of recent announced public library closures in England and the subsequent investigation by the Secretary of State for Culture into proposed closures in Wirral...

...John Walsh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the change literary patronage underwent in England after the introduction of print, and attempt to explain the causes for the shift. Design/methodology/approach Provides a historical review of the period. Findings The practice...

... England Poland Currently, many libraries are dealing with increased demands from ethnic users from Eastern Europe including Poland. The first major wave of Polish immigrants arrived in Great Britain during World War 2 (WW2). Many of them stayed after the war and were joined by other Poles who had...

...David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of the debate in terms of a recent consultation in England on guidance for public libraries in selection of controversial materials. Also discussed is the issue of censorship in terms of how it relates to the practice...

... materials offered via the organisation's intranet. Two local public libraries are within easy reach of the school and each provides computer workstations with Internet facilities. Information literacy Information retrieval Qualitative research User studies Schools England Information...

...Peter Beal; Grace Ioppolo Manuscripts England History Like previous volumes in the admirable English Manuscript Studies series, this compilation of essays is firmly aimed at an academic audience. In this case, the ten themed articles are largely based on papers presented...

...A.S.G. Edwards Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts English Manuscript Studies 1100‐1700 . London : British Library   2002 . £45 Volume 10 0712347321 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Manuscripts England Eight leading scholars...

... Book trade History England This fifth volume of the Print Networks series has its roots in the research of a group of librarians, bibliographers, and booksellers, who were keen to uncover “the history of the book trade in the North”. They believed that the historical centres of printing...

... in England as a political refugee from Italy, to the hospitable kindness of the historian of the Italian Renaissance, William Roscoe (1753‐1831). But that proved to be a brief stage on Panizzi’s route to London, and the British Museum. In 1837, Panizzi – defying the regular rules of seniority – was appointed...

...David Gerard D.R.   Woolf . Reading History in Early Modern England . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press   2000 . 360 pp. , ISBN: 0 521 78046 2   £45.00 Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series History Books England The branch of learning...

...: 0 7123 4609 0   £25.00 The British Library Studies in Map History, Vol. II England History Maps What’s in a map? An awful lot, as we all know: invaluable historical information and intellectual constructs of the mapmaker are just two almost incidental by‐products of old maps...

...David Gerard Kevin   Sharpe . Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England . London : Yale University Press   2000 . 358pp. , ISBN: 0 300 08152 9   £25.00 Reading History Books England A study of reading habits: Philip Larkin’s poem...

...Eric Glasgow The enormous growth in publishing in Victorian England is surveyed from its origins in the eighteenth century to the demise, or survival, of principal publishing houses in the twentieth century. The major publishers ‐ Longman, Murray, Smith Elder, Chapman and Hall, Colburn, Bentley...