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
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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Illuminating Libraries
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
A prevailing theme seems to be appearing on this blog, which is about our interest in categorisation and classification! Along[…]
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Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White
Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on the Books and[…]
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