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Name
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Wilson's Parochial Libraries
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Description
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Bishop Wilson established a library in every parish on the Island, stocked with books in Manx and English, and supplied reading spectacles so the people could use them. The libraries were part of Wilson's comprehensive programme of education and spiritual care. They were not maintained after Wilson's successors lost the resources to stock them. The libraries represent what the Revestment interrupted: an institutional commitment to the education and cultural life of Manx people, funded by the resources of the diocese and sustained by a bishop who believed his people deserved the means to read.
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Active Period
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c.1700-1755
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Type
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Education
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Library
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Source
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Train
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Keble
