Illustrating Austen at 200
To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen on 18 July 1817, we have a blog from a member of teaching staff in English who frequently brings her classes to use Special Collections material. Given the…
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Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. So, famously, begins The go-between by L.P. Hartley. I was a visitor to that foreign country recently; my passport, the cartes de visite of Special…