TY - JOUR
AU - Peter Hoare
AB - Nottingham's operatives' libraries may not have been unique, but they were certainly remarkable. These libraries served the lowest class of manual worker. Significantly they were started and run by the members themselves; they were not imposed on the workers by a higher class. Beginning in the 1830s, Nottingham (England) was the home of at least a dozen similar libraries, based in public houses. The city was a centre of Chartism — it even had a Chartist Member of Parliament — which helps to explain why this phenomenon became so popular. Some of these libraries existed for fifty years and collected many thousands of volumes.
BT - Library History
IS - 3
LA - English
N2 - Nottingham's operatives' libraries may not have been unique, but they were certainly remarkable. These libraries served the lowest class of manual worker. Significantly they were started and run by the members themselves; they were not imposed on the workers by a higher class. Beginning in the 1830s, Nottingham (England) was the home of at least a dozen similar libraries, based in public houses. The city was a centre of Chartism — it even had a Chartist Member of Parliament — which helps to explain why this phenomenon became so popular. Some of these libraries existed for fifty years and collected many thousands of volumes.
PY - 2003
SP - 173
EP - 84
T2 - Library History
TI - The Operatives' Libraries of Nottingham: A Radical Community's Own Initiative
VL - 19
ER -