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-2465fa4fdb1047479f7c2ab8720571262025-01-30T10:20:52ZengPresses 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.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/10997mininghistory of readinglibrary historyworking-class literatureNorthumberland |
| spellingShingle | Kirstie Blair Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens mining history of reading library history working-class literature Northumberland |
| 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 | mining history of reading library history working-class literature Northumberland |
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