| Status: | Active, not currently accepting new members |
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| When: | Weekly on Monday mornings 10:30 am-12:30 pm Starts: 05/10/2026 Ends: 16/11/2026 |
| Venue: | Cathedral Archives Seminar Room |
| Cost: | £6.00 |
| Tutor/Leader: | Dr David Shaw |
| Specific dates: | 5 to 19 Oct, 2 to 16 Nov |
| No. sessions: | 6 |
| Description: | Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type; the spread of printing in the 15th century; religion and scholarship in 16th-century Europe; King v. Parliament in 17th-century England; English provincial printing and publishing in the 18th century (focussing on Canterbury); printing and the industrial revolution in the 19th-century; 20th-century developments, including the computer and the internet; the history of the Cathedral Library. The course will include use of historic materials from the Cathedral Library collections. |
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