cornucopia

While I’m in Britain I might check out the collection of the Overstone Library at Reading University.  I’ll be in Reading to visit Esther and will need to be entertained while she’s in class.  This is a collection of 740 items (dating from 1757-1862) which belonged to John Ramsay McCulloch, a Scottish journalist and political economist.

In the future, I think I might like to go to the Earl Grey Pamphlets collection at the University of Durham; these items, collected by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Earls Grey, concern Parliamentary reform and social issues in the long 19th century.

Finally, there are the Cowen Tracts, at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  Joseph Cowen (1829-1900) was involved in various types of reform (temperance, education sanitation, etc.) and he was involved in the Co-operative movement in the North-east of England.