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The history of women’s pockets

The history of women’s pockets

Déc 2, 2019 | Ex-Larca, Médias, Valorisation

Ariane Fennetaux – Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, 2 décembre 2019 In the 18th and 19th centuries there were no visible pockets on women’s clothing. So to carry things, British women wore a pair of detachable pockets that served a similar purpose to a...
Sara Thornton : “De 1870 à aujourd’hui il y a une sorte d’industrie de la fin du ‘Mystère d’Edwin Drood’ le roman-feuilleton inachevé de Dickens”

Avoir raison avec… Henry David Thoreau

Juil 21, 2019 | Ex-Larca, Médias, Valorisation

Le philosophe Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) est célèbre pour son livre “Walden” qui raconte ses années passées dans la nature… Pourtant, tout sauf un ermite, Thoreau est un penseur engagé qui voit dans la nature un miroir du monde qu’il...
Gladstone and Ottoman Armenians (1896-1897) in the Gladstone’s Pamphlet Collection at the National Library of Wales and in the Gladstone’s Library Historical Collections, Hawarden

Gladstone and Ottoman Armenians (1896-1897) in the Gladstone’s Pamphlet Collection at the National Library of Wales and in the Gladstone’s Library Historical Collections, Hawarden

Avr 22, 2019 | Ex-Larca, Médias, Valorisation

In September-October 2018, Dr Stéphanie Prévost, Senior Lecturer in 19th-century British History at Paris Diderot University, spent some time in the UK, both here at the National Library of Wales and in Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, undertaking research into the...