National Trust Libraries:
Mobility and Exchange in Great House Collections

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Friday 1st February 2013

Hosted by the University of Cambridge Centre for Material Texts
Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)

This one-day event will take as its starting point the recent opening to wider research of a number of significant great house private libraries in the United Kingdom, thanks to the on-going cataloguing work being undertaken by the National Trust. Papers and discussion will treat themes including the migration of books and ideas in and out of libraries; communities of the library (how 'private' was a private library?); libraries as repositories of cultural history.

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please contact Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2[at] cam.ac.uk) or Abigail Brundin (asb17 [at] cam.ac.uk) for more information.