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

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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 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] 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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