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Ye Olde Booksellers

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Jul 10, 2025
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On Tuesday, I felt really embarrassed because I, a writer of a PhD and self-proclaimed book trade historian, made a silly claim in the latest Book History Bite newsletter that Hatchard’s was not the oldest bookshop in the UK. I got corrected and sent out an apology post with my ex-PhD supervisor’s comments, and, aside from feeling a bit silly for a coup…

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