David Shaw’s Blog on the history of the book, early music, the history of Canterbury Cathedral Library and its collections, etc.
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- Cornetts and sackbuts in Canterbury Cathedral at the Restoration
- Rats in the organ at Canterbury Cathedral in 1674
- Two books from the library of Sir Hans Sloane
- The Canterbury Christmas Day riots, 1647
- Financial record-keeping at Canterbury Cathedral in the late 17th century
- The Revd Robert Hunt of Reculver (Kent) and Jamestown (Virginia)
- From prison in Philadelphia to a canonry at Canterbury Cathedral
- Did Canterbury Cathedral Library chain its books in the seventeenth century?
- The dung heap in St George’s Lane
- A military guard for the Canterbury Playhouse in 1744
- Printed books surviving from Canterbury medieval libraries
- Canterbury Cathedral Library’s five copies of the 1763 Baskerville Bible
- An attempt to acquire a book for Canterbury Cathedral Library in 1628
- Three Canterbury shopkeepers in 1792
- Moving house in the eighteenth century
- What happened to the sackbuts and cornetts at Canterbury Cathedral?
- Canterbury Cathedral Library’s oldest printed item (Bamberg, 1463)
- An Indulgence for the Hospital of St James, Compostela, [Toledo, 1503]
- The one-pull press and printing on half sheets
- A stop-press news item in 1642
- Aldus Manutius, italic type and small-format books