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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: March 2021

A Painted Literary Parthenon for the Athens of the North

29 March 2021 Kit Baston Partners

Any keeper of books will know that space is always at a premium and by the late 1790s, two Edinburgh[…]

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Women Borrowers at Westerkirk Library

22 March 2021 Alex Deans Borrowers

To mark Women’s History Month, we’re running a series of blogs to highlight the women who wrote and borrowed the[…]

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Title page: Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic [sic] or Erse language (Edinburgh, 1769)

Seeking the Sublime: Elizabeth Montagu in Scotland, August 1766

15 March 2021 Kit Baston Books

Cuchullin sat by Tura’s wall; by the tree of the rustling leaf.—His spear leaned against the mossy rock. His shield[…]

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Leighton Water Drinkers Register, p.1: Mrs Dalzell’s Borrowings

Women Borrowers

8 March 2021 Katie Halsey Borrowers

Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]

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Library Lives: Books, Borrowers, and Beyond: Innerpeffray Library, Saturday 22 May

8 March 2021 Alex Deans Events, Partners

The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public event, to be held at the famous[…]

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Isaac Cruickshank, Scotch Cleanliness ni vide Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808-27). Boston Public Library. This caricature suggests the popularity of Hamilton’s novel in its day

World Book Day with Books and Borrowing

4 March 2021 Katie Halsey Books

Today, Thursday 4 March 2021, we celebrate World Book Day with a look at some of the favourite books in[…]

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Books, Borrowing, and the Bannatyne Club

1 March 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Guest Posts, Partners

By Kelsey Jackson Williams Not many people today would recognise the Bannatyne Club if you mentioned it in casual conversation,[…]

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