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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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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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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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Supernatural Visions: A Halloween Post

31 October 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

Second Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]

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

26 September 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: The World Displayed; or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels

5 September 2022 Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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A Return to the Records of the Bristol Library Society

15 August 2022 Josh Smith Books, Borrowers

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

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (1715-35)

11 July 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Rules for borrowing books from Simson's bequest

Robert Simson’s Books at the University of Glasgow

20 June 2022 Kit Baston Books, Partners

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

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Poetry: A Reflection

28 March 2022 Katie Halsey Books

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

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Image of a woman with an elaborate headdress who is reading a book that is balanced on a globe.

International Women’s Day 2022

8 March 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers

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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