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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: November 2020

The World in Print: Borrowings of Voyages and Travels

30 November 2020 Alex Deans Books, Borrowers

Voyages and travels were among the most borrowed books from Scottish libraries in the eighteenth century and Romantic era. Travel[…]

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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]

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Fraser James and Ellie Haddington, actors.

Illuminating Libraries

11 November 2020 Kit Baston Guest Posts, Partners

A guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]

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Types of Libraries

9 November 2020 Katie Halsey Project News

A prevailing theme seems to be appearing on this blog, which is about our interest in categorisation and classification! Along[…]

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The signatures of J.M. Barrie, Charlotte F. Shaw and George Bernard Shaw, September 1924, Innerpeffray Library Visitors Book volume 4, f.1r

Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White

2 November 2020 Isla Macfarlane Partners, Project Team

Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on the Books and[…]

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