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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: September 2022

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)

26 September 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]

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Farewell to Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans

20 September 2022 Katie Halsey Project Team

This week, I have the sad task of bidding farewell to postdoctoral research fellows Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans. Gerry[…]

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A Visitor to Innerpeffray Library: Héloïse Russell-Fergusson

12 September 2022 Isla Macfarlane Partners, Visitors

Reposted with permission from the Innerpeffray Library Blog’s ‘Visitor Vignettes’ series The Innerpeffray Library visitors’ books contain signatures and details[…]

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: The World Displayed; or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels

5 September 2022 Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

From the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]

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