Meet the Books: Electioneering in the 19th Century: Squibs, Posters & Books
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Meet the Books: including posters, cartoons and even a bit of yachting and electioneering! Souvenirs from Fraser-Mackintosh's electioneering
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Meet an exciting 'book' of posters, lists of electors, 'squibs', celebratory menus and other electioneering ephemera in fabulous print from the 1874 Inverness Burghs election. Also a book of satirical cartoons - see if you can work out who's who. And even a book about Yachting and Electioneering in the Hebrides!
Celebrating 100 years of the Fraser-Mackintosh collection in Inverness Public library. This is one of a series of Meet the Books events taking place in 2022, called Private Library/Public Library, where we'll delve into Fraser-Mackintosh's private library.