21 March 2022 was World Poetry Day. The Books and Borrowing team were either observing the strike action called by[…]
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International Women’s Day 2022
Today, 8 March, 2022 is International Women’s Day, and I’m therefore going to take the opportunity to reflect a little,[…]
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Forgotten Best-Sellers: John Moore’s Zeluco (1789)
In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]
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The Midway Point
We are now at the midway point of the Books and Borrowing project! We are eighteen months in, with eighteen[…]
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Christmas in Kirkwall
As the festive season approaches, I thought I would write something to get us all in the mood for Christmas.[…]
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Romantic-Period Book Circulation
I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of a salon – and the women who ran salons in the eighteenth[…]
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In Memoriam William St Clair
The Books and Borrowing team were all saddened to hear of the recent death of William St Clair. In what[…]
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Return from Orkney
Like Harriot Byron, I ask, what am I to do with my gratitude? I can do nothing but thank you[…]
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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[…]
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Women Borrowers
Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]
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