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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers

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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Kit Baston

Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Partners

by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]

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Twitter screenshot, showing an excerpt from the Innerpeffray Visitor Books and reading, "You have GOT to be kidding me."

Transcription Tales: The Visitors of Innerpeffray

25 January 2021 Kit Baston Project Team

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

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

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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Fraser James and Ellie Haddington, actors.

Illuminating Libraries

11 November 2020 Kit Baston Partners

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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The signatures of J.M. Barrie, Charlotte F. Shaw and George Bernard Shaw, September 1924, Innerpeffray Library Visitors Book volume 4, f.1r

Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White

2 November 2020 Kit Baston Partners, Project Team

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

26 October 2020 Kit Baston Project News, Project Team

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

19 October 2020 Kit Baston Project News

An important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]

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John Millar’s Borrowings in Spring 1768: A Preview of the Glasgow Professors Borrowing Registers

28 September 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Holdings

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

24 August 2020 Kit Baston Partners

Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it.  Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]

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Introducing Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830

25 June 2020 Kit Baston Project News

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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