One of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]
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Books and Borrowing and the First Scottish Enlightenment, a guest post by Kelsey Jackson Williams
Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]
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Leadhills Heritage Trust
Surfing the Yesterday channel a few days ago, I was surprised and delighted to spot a familiar figure on the[…]
Read moreBook: Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831
Having now officially come on board with ‘Books and Borrowing’ (hooray!) and by way of introduction, I’d like to use[…]
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Religious Occupations
Over the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]
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