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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: October 2022

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Supernatural Visions: A Halloween Post

31 October 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

Second Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]

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Research Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023

26 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Project News

Libraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition Announcement

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events, Project News

Calling all creative writers! The Books and Borrowing project are delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Books and[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition: Materials

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events

The materials here are provided in support of the Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition. Innerpeffray Library Transcription 1859 Nov[…]

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A New Chapter

17 October 2022 Alex Deans Project News, Project Team

In October I started work on a new project, bringing my two years as a research fellow with Books and[…]

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Collections Management as Borrowing-record Stand-in in the Australian Subscription Library

10 October 2022 Kit Baston Guest Posts

By Brittani Ivan, PhD Candidate at Western Sydney University My work is something of a departure from this website’s usual[…]

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Satircal print of early-19th century readers. Romancing Molly asks, 'Hav'nt you no Rum-ances in 5 Wollums?' Sir Larvey Luscious asks, 'Have you the last of Harrite Wilson?' Political Dustman says, 'I vants a Cobbett', and Frank a la Mode asks, 'Pray is a Waverley's new Novel out?

Event Report: Online Creative Writing Workshop: Books and Borrowing

3 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Partners

On 31 August 2022, I had the pleasure of attending the Books and Borrowing Online Creative Writing Workshop, hosted in[…]

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