by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]
Read moreby Isla Macfarlane Transcription is essential for most archival research and can be both a very enjoyable and frustrating activity.[…]
Read moreDr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]
Read moreA guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]
Read moreby Isla Macfarlane Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on[…]
Read moreby Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]
Read moreAn important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]
Read moreI was part of project to transcribe and analyse the University’s student and professorial borrowing registers in 2018 and 2019.[…]
Read morePurchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]
Read moreBooks and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers brings together researchers from the universities of Stirling and Glasgow[…]
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