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The Digital Miscellanies Index: developing the public face of digital resources . Dr Abigail Williams, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Illustration in title pages of Laugh and Be Fat.
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The Digital Miscellanies Index: developing the public face of digital resources Dr Abigail Williams, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
‘A Father Reading to his Family by Candlelight’, engraved by Thomas Cook (1744-1818) frontispiece to a book pub. by John Marshall & Co., 1783 (engraving)
Miscellanies in performance • Places – Yorkshire, Shoreditch • Themes – sport Authors – Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen Collections – Bodleian, Chawton house library
Taking miscellanies to the Geffrye museum of the home: parlour of 1745