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- Title
'ON THE EXTRAORDINARY RISE AND INEXPLICABLE DECLINE OF PUBLIC REPOSITORIES OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE'.
- Authors
Vandrei, Martha; Ellis, Heather
- Abstract
The article examines the history of the rise and decline of public repositories of knowledge and learned societies in Great Britain in the 19th-century. Topics discussed include the founding of the Literary and Philosophical Society or Lit & Phils, the society's emphasis on teaching skills, systemic education and promiscuous learning, tax exemption of learned societies under the Scientific Societies Bill, and Lit & Phils as testament to the prosperity of individual towns and cities.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONAL repositories; LEARNED institutions &; societies; LITERARY societies; TEACHING; EDUCATION; LEARNING
- Publication
History Today, 2024, Vol 74, Issue 8, p76
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article