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‘Dear Mother, Dear Father’: Legation Letters Home

Posted on 2nd April 20193rd April 2019 by Louisa Costelloe

The following guest blog post is by Dr. Andrew Hillier, Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol. A trunkful of papers

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“Read all about it!” Notes on an Annotated 18th Century Newspaper Collection at Armagh Public Library

Posted on 5th December 201618th January 2019 by Kath Stevenson

Dr Michael O’Connor of QUB Special Collections reflects on an idiosyncratic Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Collection Recently, I had the good fortune

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