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Member: OwenGriffiths

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TagsNon Fiction (305), BD (272), ED (204), Literature (186), Fiction (163), Novel (133), History (112), Faith (93), N (92), 20th C (84) — see all tags

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About meOld Bradfordian
Graduate: History BA, University of Manchester
Candidate: Medieval Studies MA, University of Manchester

Trustee/General Council Member: Student Christian Movement.
Contributer: Movement, the Magazine of the Student Christian Movement

Interested in: Medieval, and Anglo-Saxon history; Latin; Old English; British Politics; the Church and Church history; Gender and Sexuality studies; faith and Christianity; ethical living.

Engaged.

About my libraryTags:

Literature (Largely uncatalogued)

-- Fiction All narrative fiction that is not poetry.
-- Poetry Poetry, including narrative poetry.

Date Tags for all Literature:
-- -- Medieval Anything from c. 300 - c. 1400, tag also covers non fiction works.
-- -- Early Modern - I seem to own nothing for about six hundred years after Chaucer.
-- -- 18th C
-- -- 19th C
-- -- 20th C
-- -- 21st C
Centuries in the form xxth C are poetry and prose written in that period. (c.f. History dates below)

Non Fiction

-- History

Date tags for History (also used elsewhere).
-- -- Ancient dates < c. 300 A.D.
-- -- Late Antique c. 300 A.D. - c. 600 A.D.
-- -- Medieval c. 500 A.D. - c. 1400
-- -- Early Modern c. 1400 - 1700
-- -- Modern Applied largely where the book crosses the centuries below.
-- -- 18th Century
-- -- 19th Century
-- -- 20th Century
Centuries in the form "xxth Century" are always books concerning that period. (c.f. literature dates above)

-- Faith No distinction is made between devotional books, and more academic ones. Reflecting my philosophical rejection of the distinction between academe and rustica, and my conviction that faith must be thought and felt.

-- -- Christianity
-- -- Judaism
-- -- Islam

-- -- Biblical Describes bibles and books about the bible
-- -- -- Bibles Actual bibles, and extracts from the Bible. I describe my Bible collection in full in this blog post.

-- -- Church Books about the church, and..
-- -- -- Liturgy
-- -- -- Hymns

-- Politics

-- Art

-- Philosophy (uncatalogued)

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Locative and Other
BD Amongst my father's books in Bradford
M In my little room in Manchester
ED Already in Edinburgh with N.

N (Originally) belonging to or bought by N.

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LocationEdinburgh

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Member sinceSep 8, 2007