To understand theinfluenceof Rome on Western culture, even before the Christian era, one must be aware of the history of Roman Britain. Britannia was a Roman province for almost 400 years and its major town was Londinium (present-day London). More about historic Roman London can be found at...
So, now we’re in 2025, we can be fairly that libraries are still going to be around in 2040. There will be change, some hard to stomach, some of the rest of it wonderful, but libraries will still be around. And I’m very glad of that. But, it’s going to be tough. When ev...
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In the Netherlands, in the late nineties, a concentration of local government (economy of scale) was undertaken resulting in a smaller number of local authori- ties. After this local government reform, a decentralization of national responsibil- ity for public libraries took place and has ...
The shift in academic and public interest in cultural heritage and its role in society, which began in the late 20th century, has only begun to affect Leiden University Libraries (UBL) – holder of the world’s second largest Indonesian cultural heritage collection – in the last decade. The...
The late nineteenth century was a time when education, particularly the type offered at St. Ignatius College, was largely an effort to help assimilate and “Americanize” the poor and immigrants into “civilized” American life. As I discovered in my research on the development of legal ...
temporarily at least. Rolfe’s strain of tobacco made the new colony rich and showed the investors back in England that the colony was successful. When Pocahontas traveled to London with her husband, she was introduced as the daughter of the Emperor of Virginia and put a face on the indigeno...
Benjamin Franklin famously founded America’s first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its biggest development in the American history in the late 1800’s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help build free publiclibrariesacross the country. Between 188...
In copying late Middle English, as in copying other languages, scribes in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England drew on techniques long established in practice but seldom written down. Those techniques of the scribes, their collaborators and their readers can be reconstructed from the manuscripts ...
At the moment, we aren’t celebrating that fact very much. Perhaps we’re still reeling from the late-20th-century discovery that the humanities’ connection to the past can be described as “cultural capital.” Ownership of the collective past is something people fight over, and the humanitie...