Katie Halsey – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The Archives Re-Open: Planning for Research in the Orkney Archives

News that archives and libraries are now able to re-open has been enormously welcome to the whole project team as[…]

Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]

Today, Thursday 4 March 2021, we celebrate World Book Day with a look at some of the favourite books in[…]

Just before Christmas, I wrote the second of the project’s progress reports, designed to bring the members of our Advisory[…]

Last week saw the project team join forces with our friends at the Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]

A prevailing theme seems to be appearing on this blog, which is about our interest in categorisation and classification! Along[…]

Very exciting news this week – we are adding another library to our project! We are very grateful to be[…]

Returning to the archives felt like a very exciting moment! I spent two days photographing the manuscript registers of the[…]

Surfing the Yesterday channel a few days ago, I was surprised and delighted to spot a familiar figure on the[…]