History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

Acknowledgements

This course was written by Dr Rosalind Crone.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Course image: Rick Manwaring in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figure 2: Samuel Pepys by John Hayls, 1666, © National Portrait Gallery

Figure 3: Old Bailey Courthouse, Wikipedia

Figure 4: Waiting for the Times, 1831, by Benjamin Robert Haydon, Private Collection/Bridgeman Art

Waiting for the Times, 1831, by Benjamin Robert Haydon, Private Collection/Bridgeman Art

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