by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]
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Author: Kit Baston
Transcription Tales: The Visitors of Innerpeffray
by Isla Macfarlane Transcription is essential for most archival research and can be both a very enjoyable and frustrating activity.[…]
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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library
Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]
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Illuminating Libraries
A guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]
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Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White
by Isla Macfarlane Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on[…]
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Political Readers and the Associational Reading Space: Starting a PhD on Library Records
by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]
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Subject Classifications
An important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]
Read moreJohn Millar’s Borrowings in Spring 1768: A Preview of the Glasgow Professors Borrowing Registers
I was part of project to transcribe and analyse the University’s student and professorial borrowing registers in 2018 and 2019.[…]
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Books and Borrowing and the First Scottish Enlightenment, a guest post by Kelsey Jackson Williams
Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]
Read moreIntroducing Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830
Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers brings together researchers from the universities of Stirling and Glasgow[…]
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