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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Author: Katie Halsey

Isaac Cruickshank, Scotch Cleanliness ni vide Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808-27). Boston Public Library. This caricature suggests the popularity of Hamilton’s novel in its day

World Book Day with Books and Borrowing

4 March 2021 Katie Halsey Books

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

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A page from the Leighton Library Borrowing Registers.

Reporting on Progress

1 February 2021 Katie Halsey Project News

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

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The Team Attends the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, 6th-8th January 2021

18 January 2021 Katie Halsey Events, Project News, Project Team

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

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Illustration from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of foure-footed beastes, borrowed by Alexander Grindlay, of Madderty, on 12 December 1766

Christmas Borrowing!

14 December 2020 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

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

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Types of Libraries

9 November 2020 Katie Halsey Project News

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

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map of Aberdeenshire

Craigston Castle Borrowers’ Register

14 September 2020 Katie Halsey Partners, Project News, Project Team

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

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Leighton Library

Water Drinkers at Leighton Library

7 September 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Partners

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

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Detail from Leadhills banner

Leadhills Heritage Trust

17 August 2020 Katie Halsey Partners

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

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Scots Church Denominations Flowchart

Religious Occupations

3 August 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Project News

Over the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]

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Thomas Paine

William Young and his Petition to the Sheriff of Perthshire

20 July 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers

During the course of writing an essay on Romantic period readers at the Library of Innerpeffray for a collection entitled[…]

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