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Apologies for cross posting You may be interested to know that the Paul Mellon Centre is putting on a display entitled: "The Inspection of the Curious" The Country House Guidebook c.1750-1990. The "curious" visitors to country houses in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were invariably armed with a guidebook; and it is a practice which still continues today. The Centre's fourth Drawing Room Display, which is based on a selection of the Library's considerable collection of guidebooks, examines how they have been used by their readers, and how we might deploy them as a source material in considering the country house and explores the history, context and characteristics of the genre. The display is free and will run from 5th September - 6th January, in the Drawing Room of the Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JA For more information, please go to <http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/inspectionofthecur ious/event-category/display> http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/inspectionofthecuri ous/event-category/display We'd like to encourage all interested parties to come and view the display. Research Collections | The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 16 Bedford Square | London | WC1B 3JA [log in to unmask] +44 (0)20 7580 0311 For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2013 at http://arlis.org.uk/