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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Month: November 2022

Young Girl Reading, c. 1769, Jean-Honore Fragonard. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, US).

Metaphors of Reading, 1760-1830

28 November 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Project Team

For the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]

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Bruce, the Bible, and a Borrowing: James Bruce of Kinnaird and the Leighton Library, Dunblane

21 November 2022 Josh Smith Borrowers

Working with historical borrowing records provides you with a host of names. In an earlier blog post, I wrote about[…]

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Another Forgotten Bestseller: Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Paul Clifford (1830)

14 November 2022 Katie Halsey Forgotten Best-Sellers

To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]

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Libraries, Lives and Legacies: Further Details on our Call for Papers for April 2023

7 November 2022 Matt Sangster Events, Project News

This week, we’d like to highlight the Call for Papers we posted a couple of weeks back (posted again in[…]

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