The Revolution Will Be Digitized: One-of-a-Kind French Revolution Publications Now Available Through ExploreUK | UK Libraries
peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-04-02
Summary:
"University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center is home to a remarkable collection that may drive Kentuckians to defend – or decapitate – a king.
The French Revolution Publications Collection consists of nearly 5000 political bulletins, printed from the beginning of the long and bloody French Revolution through the ascendancy of Napoleon Bonaparte, which have been recently digitized and made accessible to researchers around the world.
An unknown curator who lived during the period collected these bulletins and bound them into 27 volumes, grouping them by title and arranging them chronologically during the years 1790-1802, as reflected in a magnificent handwritten index. The full set contains 28 volumes, though one was missing when UK Libraries purchased the collection in the 1990s...."