This part of the site presents historical materials and commentary on the following themes:

• Authors and Friends – Samuel Richardson, author, to Andrew Millar, on the death of the Millars’ son.
• Negotiating Publishing – Millar’s business dealings with the poet Allan Ramsay, and the philosopher-historian David Hume.  
• Partners and Booksellers – Millar’s business dealings with bookselling associates Thomas Becket and Thomas Cadell.
• Politics of Printing – Millar’s early correspondence on the Malt Tax Riots with the minister and historian Robert Wodrow.
• Social Milieu – Millar’s exchange of news with the diplomat Andrew Mitchell.

Further historical materials are featured in the e-learning modules.

This part of the site features three e-learning modules, covering:

• The world of the eighteenth-century bookseller
• An introduction to online resources
• How to read an eighteenth-century manuscript letter

The modules introduce historical context, teach research skills, and signpost further avenues for study.

This site is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and hosted by the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

Best Digital Resource for 2016 by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.