Kit Baston – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Supernatural Visions: A Halloween Post

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

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

Sometimes the stars seem to align when going research. For Books and Borrowing, the configuration of the arrival and transcription[…]

One of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]

by Linda Cracknell The moral compass was already set when I launched North in May to run a creative writing[…]

by Dr Craig Lamont, University of Glasgow In April, the Books and Borrowing project examined a swathe of material relating[…]

by Christina Devlin, Professor of English and Reading, Montgomery College, Maryland In April, I was a guest at Books and[…]

By Dr Dahlia Porter, University of Glasgow [This post is based on a talk I gave at the Books and[…]

When I began transcribing the borrowing registers of the Advocates Library, I expected to find that law reports, Session Papers,[…]

by Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling When exploring an old aristocratic library you dream of finding many things –[…]