The accounts of the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway register a payment of one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence for[…]
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COP26 – Part 2: Latent Heat at the University Library
This is the second of a pair of blogs exploring environmental aspects of the study of borrowing records from historic[…]
Read moreCOP26 – Part 1: Glasgow, Birthplace of the Anthropocene
This is the first of a pair of blogs exploring environmental aspects of the study of borrowing records from historic[…]
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A First Look at the Aberdeen Theological Library
In 1826, the first of a series of royal commissions was established that would report on the condition and management[…]
Read moreWriting One’s Own Story with Walter Scott
Your author’s quill commands no life to grow The codex mute remains in dusty gloom ’Till, tripping lightly thro’ the[…]
Read moreCelebrity Spotting – Robert Riddell at St Andrews
Work has been continuing on the massive body of borrowing data we have from St Andrews University library. With the[…]
Read moreBooks for Borrowing: Walter Scott
Walter Scott’s novels typically feature at least one central character who has been conspicuously shaped by their reading and/or by[…]
Read moreRebellion, Enlightenment and Rollin
The commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]
Read moreBroughton House Visit
Broughton House in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright is the former home of the colourist painter Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933),[…]
Read moreThe (Huge!) Borrowing Records of St Andrews
One of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]
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