Housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera in the UK.
It offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
You can search the collection, view the items on screen and print out copies for personal research.
When you visit the website:
- Enter your library membership card number into the ‘Public Library User’ box. Please include the capital 'D' at the beginning of your membership number - this is case sensitive.
- Select “Northamptonshire Central Library" from the drop-down menu.
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