Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
… for both British and French individuals and from the 1750s onwards there had been an expansion in Britain of parish and subscription libraries. 5 It is possible that in Petersfield there was no library and the Bonhams’ library would … prisoners of war elsewhere in Britain see also Mark Towsey, ‘Imprisoned Reading: French Prisoners of War at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811-1814’, in Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft, & Hannah Smith (eds.) Civilians and War in Europe …
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