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John Freeth and his Circle or Birmingham Men of the Last Century - members of the Birmingham Book Club pictured in 1792 by John Eckstein.. The Birmingham Book Club, known to its opponents during the 1790s as the Jacobin Club due to its political radicalism, [1] and at times also as the Twelve Apostles, [2] was a book club and debating society based in Birmingham, England from the 18th to the ...
"Review of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. (Volume IV, 1557-1695)". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 36 (2): 307– 308. doi:10.2307/4054235. ISSN 0095-1390. JSTOR 4054235. Vol. 5 Dixon, Rosemary (2010). "Review of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, V: 1695-1830". The Review of English Studies.
Two books in editions from the Left Book Club: In Search of the Millennium, by Julius Braunthal (1945), and On the Top of the World by L. Brontman (1938). The Left Book Club, founded in May 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and the 1940s in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Holland FRSL (born 5 January 1968) is an English author and popular historian who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history, and the origins of Islam. He has worked with the BBC to create and host historical television documentaries, and presented the radio series Making History.
Ian Maxted (ed.), Exeter Working Papers in Book History "Publications". Bibliographical Society. 6 January 2013. (Includes works about history of books in the UK) BibSite – via Bibliographical Society of America. (Includes articles on UK book history) University of London’s Society of Bibliophiles; David Finkelstein; Alistair McCleery (eds.).
A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss books they have read. It is often simply called a book club , a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club . Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group .
The BCA logo. Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom.It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K.
By 1939, the Right Book Club claimed 20,000 subscribers, in comparison with some 50,000 members of the Left Book Club and 5,000 of the National Book Association. On 3 November 1939, the humorist A. G. Macdonell replied to an invitation from Christina Foyle to join the Club, "I had no idea that there were twenty thousand members of the Right in ...