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Dr Williams's Trust and Library.
This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) reveals rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer, Inc.,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Dates, Money, Welsh Place Names and Publications
- Prologue
- 1 Dr Williams and His Will
- 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721-31: Faith, Fitness, and Diligence
- 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725-30: A Proper Plan
- 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731-47: Piety and Charity
- 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748-62: Liberty and Liberal Dissent
- 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762-95: A Very Respectable Body
- 7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795-1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850-7: Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light
- 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857-93: The Scrupulous Observer
- 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886-1914: Introducing Order
- 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914-25: Application and Imagination
- 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925-46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925-44: A New Age with Old Strains
- 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944-66 and Librarian 1946-66: Trusted Innovator
- 13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966-76: Modest Dependability
- 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977-98: Mixed Blessings
- 15 David Wykes, Director 1998-2021: Past, Present, and Future
- 16 Dr Williams's Trust: An Assessment
- Appendix 1: Trustees in 1723
- Appendix 2: Lists from Short Account (with later additions)
- Bibliography
- Index