Britain’s first public librarians were trained on-the-job. They moved from one #PubLib location to another to gain experience & upward promotion. I’m plotting their routes, using some extremely pretty late-nineteenth-century railway maps @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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(Researchng Deptford's 19th Century publicans there are some distinct patterns of people moving from Hackney / East End to Deptford and later moving on to Camberwell / Southwark.)