{"id":311784,"date":"2025-08-02T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:23:12","slug":"ushaw-historic-house-library-open-to-public-for-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311784\/","title":{"rendered":"Ushaw Historic House library open to public for one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A library which holds historic books such as Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Principia Mathematica will open to the public for the first time \u2013 though just for a single day.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ushaw Historic House, near Durham, will open its 50,000-item collection to the public on 9 August as part of its first ever book festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The library at the former Roman Catholic seminary is usually reserved for researchers, Ushaw official Sanjay Gidda said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Looking forward to welcoming a wider audience, Mr Gidda said: &#8220;This is one of the most exciting cultural days Ushaw has ever hosted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A library which holds historic books such as Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Principia Mathematica will open to the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114958920212728509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}