history

Lynne Shelby

And Then There Were The Victorians - A Short History of Libraries - Part III

From the fall of the Roman Empire, through the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, the monks of Northern Europe could be...

Lynne Shelby

Monks and Princes - A History of Libraries - Part II

In Roman times, a man about town might well spend his morning at the public baths, his ablutions followed by a few hours browsing and...

Lynne Shelby

Scribes and Emperors - libraries in the ancient world

Almost as soon as ancient civilisations developed the earliest form of writing – cuneiform on clay tablets in Mesopotamia, hieroglyphics...