To members of the Library & Information History Group and others.
Can any lis-libhistorian help? I wonder whether this might be related to
members' existing membership of an Exchange e.g. for textiles or other
merchandise - i.e. as a way of selecting subscribers to the library -
rather than as a particular kind of library. (Keith Manley is, I think,
still out of the country but he may be picking up e-mail!)
Regards
Peter Hoare
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Peter Hoare, 21 Oundle Drive, Wollaton Park, Nottingham NG8 1BN
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From: "Andrew Hobbs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:23 PM
Subject: Exchange reading rooms
Can anyone explain how an exchange reading room differed from other reading
rooms, in 19th-century Britain? A group of middle-class professionals and
tradesmen ran one in a rented room in Preston town hall in the 1860s and
'70s.
I've seen references to ones connected to corn exchanges, wool exchanges
etc, but that doesn't seem to appy in this case.
Thanks
Andrew Hobbs
University of Central Lancashire
UK
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