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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Katie Halsey

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Homecoming, Return and Recovery: The BSECS conference, 2023

9 January 2023 Katie Halsey Project News

Happy New Year! Can it really be 2023 already? The New Year got off to a good start for two[…]

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A Merry Christmas Post for 2022

19 December 2022 Katie Halsey Books

Normally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]

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Building the Books and Borrowing Digital Resource

12 December 2022 Katie Halsey Project Team, Technical

Over the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have[…]

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Young Girl Reading, c. 1769, Jean-Honore Fragonard. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, US).

Metaphors of Reading, 1760-1830

28 November 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Project Team

For the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]

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Another Forgotten Bestseller: Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Paul Clifford (1830)

14 November 2022 Katie Halsey Forgotten Best-Sellers

To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]

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Research Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023

26 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Project News

Libraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition Announcement

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events, Project News

Calling all creative writers! The Books and Borrowing project are delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Books and[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition: Materials

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events

The materials here are provided in support of the Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition. Innerpeffray Library Transcription 1859 Nov[…]

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Satircal print of early-19th century readers. Romancing Molly asks, 'Hav'nt you no Rum-ances in 5 Wollums?' Sir Larvey Luscious asks, 'Have you the last of Harrite Wilson?' Political Dustman says, 'I vants a Cobbett', and Frank a la Mode asks, 'Pray is a Waverley's new Novel out?

Event Report: Online Creative Writing Workshop: Books and Borrowing

3 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Partners

On 31 August 2022, I had the pleasure of attending the Books and Borrowing Online Creative Writing Workshop, hosted in[…]

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Farewell to Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans

20 September 2022 Katie Halsey Project Team

This week, I have the sad task of bidding farewell to postdoctoral research fellows Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans. Gerry[…]

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