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Chetham's library, the oldest public Library in the English speaking world, Long Millgate, Manchester Greater Manchester.
The Library was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents". It has been in continuous use as a free public library for the 350 years since.
The Library began acquiring books in August 1655, and has been adding to its collections ever since. It holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851. They include collections of 16th- and 17th-century printed works, periodicals and journals, local history sources, broadsides and ephemera. The entire collection at Chetham’s Library has been designated as one of national and international importance.
Chetham's was the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester in the summer of 1845. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen on a shelf in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet. The research they undertook during this series of visits to the library led ultimately to their work on The Communist Manifesto.
Paintings featured as a part of the library's vast fine arts collection library include portraits of William Whitaker, the Reverend John Radcliffe, Robert Thyer, the Reverend Francis Robert Raines, and Elizabeth Leigh. An Allegory with Putti and Satyrs, oil on canvas, attributed to sixteenth century artist and Netherlander Vincent Sellaer, is also a prominent part of the Chetham's Library collection
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetham's_Library
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Chetham's library, the oldest public Library in the English speaking world, Long Millgate, Manchester Greater Manchester.
The Library was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents". It has been in continuous use as a free public library for the 350 years since.
The Library began acquiring books in August 1655, and has been adding to its collections ever since. It holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851. They include collections of 16th- and 17th-century printed works, periodicals and journals, local history sources, broadsides and ephemera. The entire collection at Chetham’s Library has been designated as one of national and international importance.
Chetham's was the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester in the summer of 1845. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen on a shelf in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet. The research they undertook during this series of visits to the library led ultimately to their work on The Communist Manifesto.
Paintings featured as a part of the library's vast fine arts collection library include portraits of William Whitaker, the Reverend John Radcliffe, Robert Thyer, the Reverend Francis Robert Raines, and Elizabeth Leigh. An Allegory with Putti and Satyrs, oil on canvas, attributed to sixteenth century artist and Netherlander Vincent Sellaer, is also a prominent part of the Chetham's Library collection
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetham's_Library