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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
Happy New Year! Can it really be 2023 already? The New Year got off to a good start for two[…]
Read moreNormally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]
Read moreOver the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have[…]
Read moreFor the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]
Read moreTo celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]
Read moreLibraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]
Read moreCalling all creative writers! The Books and Borrowing project are delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Books and[…]
Read moreThe materials here are provided in support of the Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition. Innerpeffray Library Transcription 1859 Nov[…]
Read moreOn 31 August 2022, I had the pleasure of attending the Books and Borrowing Online Creative Writing Workshop, hosted in[…]
Read moreThis week, I have the sad task of bidding farewell to postdoctoral research fellows Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans. Gerry[…]
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