Books for Everyone? National Trust Libraries and their Reading Communities in the Long Eighteenth Century

这项奖学金旨在为这个国家伟大但研究不足的藏书之一带来新的曙光。国家信托拥有140多个历史图书馆，总共藏书约40万册。其中许多仍然留在它们最初被聚集在一起阅读的房子里。这个项目关注英格兰西北部和北威尔士的五个NT图书馆，探索与漫长的18世纪书籍的社会、文化和政治史有关的重要问题。

This studentship seeks to shed new light on one of the country's great - yet under-researched - book collections. The National Trust owns over 140 historic libraries, which together contain around 400,000 books. Many of these remain in situ in the houses where they were originally brought together and read. Focusing on five NT libraries in the North West of England and North Wales, this project explores important questions relating to the social, cultural and political history of books in the long eighteenth century.