The National Book League, 1948 - 1965

File — Box: 19, Folder: 6

Scope and Contents

Various small publications by the British literacy charity The National Book League between 1948 and 1965, including examples of their Annual Lectures and Reader’s Guides. Founded in 1921 by writer Hugh Walpole, the organization has gone through many names and iterations, and is today known as Booktrust, a charity that works with schools and libraries to foster healthy reading habits in young children. Where possible, lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year. The materials included are as follows.

Annual Lectures

1948: Viscount Samuel, “Leisure in a Democracy”
1951: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Writer’s Point of View”
1954: Sir William Haley, “A Smallholding on Parnassus”

Miscellaneous

NBL Booklist: English Literature, History and Criticism, undated

Janet Adam Smith, Mountaineering, 1955

Treasures from Private Libraries in England, 1965

Dates

1948 - 1965

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