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

这个学生项目旨在揭示这个国家最伟大的——但尚未得到充分研究的——藏书。国民信托拥有140多个历史图书馆，总共收藏了大约40万本书。其中许多书仍然保存在最初聚集和阅读它们的房子里。该项目以英格兰西北部和北威尔士的五个NT图书馆为重点，探讨了与18世纪漫长的书籍社会、文化和政治历史有关的重要问题。

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.