The website for Dr Sarah Comyn’s Irish Research Council-funded project, ‘A New Reading Public’, is now live. Please follow the progress of her fascinating research on mechanics’ institutes on the Victorian Goldfields here: A New Reading Public Dr Comyn’s first two blog posts provide a look at the…
Some of our SouthHem journal publications are now available on the UCD research repository. Stay tuned for more journal publications following the expiry of green open access embargoes: Sarah Comyn, ‘Literary Sociability on the Goldfields: The Mechanics’ Institute in the Colony of Victoria, 1854-1870’, JVC 23.4 (2018):…
Access our new book for free: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-20426-6 Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational…