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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Alex Deans

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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Introducing the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830

25 July 2022 Alex Deans Partners, Project News

The Books and Borrowing team are pleased to announce the release of the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830. What[…]

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Event Report: Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers

27 June 2022 Alex Deans Events, Partners, Project News

On Thursday 23rd June, members of the Books and Borrowing team were joined by an online audience for an event[…]

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Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers – Online Event with NLS

10 May 2022 Alex Deans Events, Partners, Project News

In conjunction with our partners at the National Library of Scotland, we’re pleased to announce the upcoming online event, ‘Books[…]

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Mapping Borrowers from Robert Chambers’ Edinburgh Circulating Library

25 April 2022 Alex Deans Project News

Earlier in the year, I reported that the Books and Borrowing Project had begun the work of entering the records[…]

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Early Reflections on Robert Chambers’ Edinburgh Circulating Library

23 February 2022 Alex Deans Borrowers, Project News

Back in July 2021, Kit Baston announced the exciting news that we’d be adding the records of Robert Chambers’ Edinburgh[…]

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Agricultural Improvement at Westerkirk Library

30 August 2021 Alex Deans Books, Partners

One of the fascinating things about working on the records of Westerkirk Parish Library has been watching the way its[…]

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Event Report: Library Lives at Innerpeffray

1 June 2021 Alex Deans Project News

On Saturday 22nd May we held the first of several project events intended to bring our work with Scotland’s historical[…]

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Programme: Library Lives: Books, Borrowing and Beyond, 2.00-4.00pm, Saturday 22nd May

12 April 2021 Alex Deans Events, Partners

An online event hosted by Innerpeffray Library The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public[…]

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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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