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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: February 2021

Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Josh Smith Borrowers, Partners

‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the sun, there is[…]

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Jane Porter and the Historical Novel before Waverley

15 February 2021 Alex Deans Books, Holdings

“The war which had desolated Scotland was now at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after passing under[…]

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Books for Borrowing: Walter Scott

8 February 2021 Gerard McKeever Books

Walter Scott’s novels typically feature at least one central character who has been conspicuously shaped by their reading and/or by[…]

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A page from the Leighton Library Borrowing Registers.

Reporting on Progress

1 February 2021 Katie Halsey Project News

Just before Christmas, I wrote the second of the project’s progress reports, designed to bring the members of our Advisory[…]

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