Libraries for All

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Early modern parish libraries, frequently established for the benefit of the general public, were often deliberately inaccessible. HistoryToday.com

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The library from the parish of Gorton, one of five bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham in the 1650s, now held at Chetham’s Library in Manchester. Only two of the libraries have survived intact.

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