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Description: | Manuscripts and letters associated with Lake District personalities including Ruskin, Harriet Martineau, the Armitt sisters, and the Collingwood Family, together with folk songs, local account books, poor-law records and deeds. There is also a collection of over 10,000 book titles relating to the area including works owned/donated by Lake District personalities and people who worked in and visited the Lake District. The Armitt was originally founded on works of literature from the Ambleside Book Club founded in 1828 and the Ruskin Library, formed in 1882, which remain a core and treasured part of the collection today. Books include early guidebooks and local history and archaeological reference works, Charlotte Mason's educational theories and work by local authors including Arthur Ransome and Norman Nicholson. There are also Newspapers & Parish Magazines. | Subjects: | Archives | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01539 431313 | Telephone: | 01539 431212 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1883 | Go to resource |
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