Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
… 17-27. Prisoners’ reading habits The Bonhams owned a large library and the letters to Henry Bonham reveal that access to books and reading may have been important to the Petersfield prisoners. Reading was a common cultural activity for both … library would therefore have been an important cultural amenity for the French prisoners. 6 Although we do not know what books were in the Bonhams’ library we do know that there was at least one book on English grammar. One prisoner, a M. La Grange, whilst returning some of the books from the Bonhams’ library, asked to keep the ‘Grammar […] in the uncertainty of providing myself with another like …
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