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Thanks to @LeeRHarry for pointing out my error on my last post - this is now correct!

Best book of #August. @Catsandbooks

#auguststats

4.75 ⭐️

May be of interest to the #pemberlittens @BarkingMadRead as it refers to both her characters and brothers!

This prompt fits perfectly with one of my quirky interests I don‘t know exactly why I am interested in this subject matter. #maid #CharacterCharm

(Oh! This is for tomorrow. At least, I‘m early! )

"The sounds and smells of rural life were seldom far away, and the parish clerk would sometimes have to shepherd the gaggle of ducks that lived in the churchyard away from the door when the service was about to begin."

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I found this surprisingly riveting at times, though some parts are slow. It charts both the census itself and the things it recorded, touching on things like industrialisation, the Highland Clearances, the Potato Famine, emigration, immigration, WWI, WWII... all kinds of things which affected the population of the UK. Also there's a bit on the wider “British Empire“.

Today's reading is getting me off to a good start with #BookSpinBingo!

The author uses diaries, library records, and other papers as well as elocution guides to reconstruct who was reading what in the 18th century and how. Reading was much more of a shared activity with people reading aloud to each other from newspapers, periodicals, non fiction, joke books, and religious works, and a good reading voice was essential.

#sunshinewellness

#WhereAreYouMonday

18th century Britain

I'm having to do a first post on some of the books I've started reading concurrently in order for them to show up properly as I can mark them as current reads! The list is just growing and growing and growing... I'm very whim-driven at the moment, just reading a little of multiple books at the same time, and that's fine.

I'm finding this one more interesting than I thought, even while it's still just describing how the census was set up!