Research project
The Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865
- Start date: 1 September 2020
- End date: 1 September 2022
- Funder: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- Primary investigator: Professor Bridget Bennett
Value
£107,972
Description
This research engages with a historically situated set of transatlantic networks, chiefly centred on communities of nonconformists in Yorkshire and Pennsylvania and their social activism and contributions to architecture and medicine, abolition and to institutions of learning as well as libraries. Drawing on nearly a decade of original research, I propose to write a book revealing a previously little-known story. Reflecting on outward-looking and transatlantic models of personal relationships from history, offers the opportunity to conceive of inclusive models of community, challenge and care.