One of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]
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Author: Kit Baston
The Pirate, The Sea and a Cargo of Books
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
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
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
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’
When I began transcribing the borrowing registers of the Advocates Library, I expected to find that law reports, Session Papers,[…]
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A First Look at the Advocates Library
We have now taken delivery of a first set of images from the borrowers’ receipt books of the Advocates Library[…]
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William Robertson (1721-1793): Minister, Principal, Historian
This year marks the tercentenary of the birth of a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. William Robertson was a[…]
Read moreRomantic Period Book Circulation: Our BARS Salon, 18 August 2021
Which books were really circulating in the Romantic Period? We will be hosting a salon at Romantic Disconnections/Reconnections, BARS’ International[…]
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Robert Chambers’ Circulating Library Borrowing Register, 1828-1829
The Chambers Library Borrowing Register: A Unique Manuscript A surviving borrowing register for Robert Chambers’ circulating library, which operated in[…]
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