{"id":3245,"date":"2020-02-17T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2020-09-14T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:16:36","slug":"resource-in-focus-literary-print-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-in-focus-literary-print-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource in focus: Literary Print Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Love books? We hope so. Do you want to know more? Take a journey into the history of the book with Literary Print Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Literary Print Culture: the Stationers' Company Archive, 1554-2007 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1jraif3\/NCL_ALMA61131941760002411\" target=\"_blank\">Literary Print Culture: the Stationers&#8217; Company Archive, 1554-2007<\/a> is a resource which will show you the primary source documents from the City of London archives. Covering the history of the book, publishing history, the history of copyright and the workings of the early London Livery Company, explore the variety of documents to uncover the story of the role the Stationers&#8217; Company played in the history of the book trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-arms-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the Arms of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.\" class=\"wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-arms-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-arms-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-arms-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-arms.jpg 1396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption> Arms of the company [1], c.1700-1900, \u00a9 The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This archive contains a huge range of primary sources, showcasing a diverse range of material from the archive of the Stationers&#8217; Company archive including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Constitutional Records<\/li><li>Court Records<\/li><li>Membership Records&nbsp;<\/li><li>Financial Records<\/li><li>Trade Records<\/li><li>General Administrative Records<\/li><li>Charities and Property Records&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you begin, we\u2019d recommend clicking&nbsp;<strong>Introduction<\/strong>, in which you can learn more about its scope and features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1jraif3\/NCL_ALMA61131941760002411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-home.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the Literary Print Culture resource homepage.\" class=\"wp-image-3249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-home.jpg 767w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/01\/blog_literary-print-home-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary sources are supplemented by contextual essays and other&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"commentary (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amdigital.co.uk\/about\/blog\/category\/literature\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>commentary<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;to give you ideas for interpreting and exploiting the archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can browse or search the archive contents by clicking&nbsp;<strong>Documents<\/strong><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>(to browse) or one of the two&nbsp;<strong>Search<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>buttons. You can filter your search in various ways, e.g. by document type, year or theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some of the documents in the archive, you can now use handwritten text recognition to enable you to search the handwritten items effectively. Split-screen viewing enables you to view a document and its index simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you used&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1jraif3\/NCL_ALMA61131941760002411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Literary Print Culture (opens in a new tab)\">Literary Print Culture<\/a>? Please feel free to post your comments and experiences by clicking&nbsp;<em>Leave a comment<\/em>&nbsp;below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love books? We hope so. Do you want to know more? Take a journey into the history of the book with Literary Print Culture. Literary Print Culture: the Stationers&#8217; Company Archive, 1554-2007 is a resource which will show you the primary source documents from the City of London archives. Covering the history of the book, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-in-focus-literary-print-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resource in focus: Literary Print Culture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[95,22,9,196,12,13],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-english-literature","tag-history","tag-law","tag-media","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}