Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England

该项目揭示了早期现代西北地区被忽视的阅读历史。它及时纠正了学术界对16世纪和17世纪英国文学文化的几乎排他性的关注。通过将学术导师和学生的专业知识与切坦图书馆工作人员的专业知识相结合，该项目将加深我们对英格兰西北部最重要的文化遗产收藏之一的了解和理解，特别是它与该地区历史的相关性。除了一篇学术论文外，该项目还将包括五个面向普通观众的成果：一个展览、一个研讨会、在切萨姆的一次公开演讲、三篇博客文章和一段YouTube视频。通过吸引人们对藏品与当地历史联系的兴趣，该项目将帮助图书馆吸引新的观众，特别是来自西北地区的观众，以及那些对该地区独特历史感兴趣的更远地区的观众。该项目的更广泛目标是通过提高人们对该地区过去的认识，为曼彻斯特作为联合国教科文组织文学之城的议程做出贡献，以促进该地区目前和未来的文学文化的持续振兴，以确认过去、现在和未来：强大的文化遗产，充满活力和多样化的当代文化场景，以及将文化延伸到下一代的愿望。

The project uncovers the largely overlooked history of reading in the early modern North West. It offers a timely corrective to the almost exclusive focus on London and the South East in academic scholarship on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literary culture. By combining the expertise of the academic supervisors and student with that of the library staff at Chetham's, the project will deepen our knowledge and understanding of one of the most important cultural heritage collections in the North West of England, in particular its relevance to the history of the region. In addition to an academic thesis, the project will include five outputs aimed at general audiences: an exhibit, a workshop, a public talk at Chetham's, three blog entries, and a YouTube video. By appealing to the interest in the connections of the collections with the history of the local area, the project will help the library to attract new audiences, especially from the North West, but also those from further afield with an interest in the distinctive history of this region.The wider aim of the project is to contribute to the ongoing revitalisation of the literary culture of the area in the present and future by raising awareness of its past, contributing to the agenda of Manchester as a UNESCO City of Literature to 'recognise past, present and future: a strong cultural heritage, a vibrant and diverse contemporary cultural scene, and aspirations to extend culture to the next generation'