Did commonplace books document local customs and traditions?

Jan 9, 2017 ... A commonplace book is a personal journal that compiles quotes from books you read. It may also include illustrations, personal thoughts, lists, ... Mar 24, 2022 ... Keeping a commonplace book feels like a kinder way to grow, by wrestling with the articulations of others in the open as I hopefully adjust myself within. Oct 13, 2020 ... Anything that is inspiring and interesting to me. No alt text provided for this image. Tooling for commonplace books. I use Evernote for my ... Nov 29, 2014 ... Laurence Olivier · The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry Library) · The Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop ... Jan 18, 2024 ... Keeping a blog, the modern commonplace book, is a good way to see our own progress. It makes our endeavors have a more tangible manifestation. Oct 24, 2024 ... Whether it is poetry, to-do lists, sketches, or song lyrics, my commonplace book is a unique reflection of my identity and mental health in some of its rawest ... Mar 17, 2015 ... Commonplace books are a delightful activity to record favorite books, authors, quotes, reading notes, poems, Scriptures, anthology of passages, and many other ... May 1, 2010 ... 'Scriptorium' is the culmination of a three-year project in the Faculty of English to digitise and preserve a type of manuscript book well known ... Welcome to the online edition of the James Mill Commonplace Books. A collaborative project with the London Library. It's a kind of journal, but it's explicitly for recording observations from other sources: books, talks, sermons, lectures, etc.