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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers

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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Kit Baston

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Supernatural Visions: A Halloween Post

31 October 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

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

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Collections Management as Borrowing-record Stand-in in the Australian Subscription Library

10 October 2022 Kit Baston Guest Posts

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

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Mrs Felix Yaniewicz and the Chambers’ Circulating Library, 1829

18 July 2022 Kit Baston Borrowers

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

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Rules for borrowing books from Simson's bequest

Robert Simson’s Books at the University of Glasgow

20 June 2022 Kit Baston Books, Partners

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

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The Pirate, The Sea and a Cargo of Books

6 June 2022 Kit Baston Borrowers, Events, Partners

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

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Guest Post – An Overview of Glasgow in the Eighteenth Century

23 May 2022 Kit Baston Guest Posts

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

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Guest Post – Event Horizons: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth Century Glasgow

16 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

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

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Guest Post – Institutional Borrowing: Inventories, Registers, Receipt Books

3 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

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

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Il étoit une fois…: The Advocates Library and the ‘Le Cabinet des Fées’

3 March 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

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

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Lending Registers at Glamis Castle, 1699-1754

23 January 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Guest Posts

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

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