August 2020 – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The (Huge!) Borrowing Records of St Andrews

One of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]

Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]

Surfing the Yesterday channel a few days ago, I was surprised and delighted to spot a familiar figure on the[…]

Having now officially come on board with ‘Books and Borrowing’ (hooray!) and by way of introduction, I’d like to use[…]

Over the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]