February 2021 – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

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

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

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

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