Books – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)

In 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]

From the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]

In September of last year, I made my first research trip to Bristol where over the course of two weeks[…]

Over the past few weeks, prompted by seeing a copy of it in Walter Scott’s library during our trip to[…]

One of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]

21 March 2022 was World Poetry Day. The Books and Borrowing team were either observing the strike action called by[…]

Today, 8 March, 2022 is International Women’s Day, and I’m therefore going to take the opportunity to reflect a little,[…]

When I began transcribing the borrowing registers of the Advocates Library, I expected to find that law reports, Session Papers,[…]

In her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]

In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]