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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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
Normally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]
Read moreFor the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]
Read moreSecond Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]
Read moreIn 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]
Read moreFrom the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]
Read moreIn September of last year, I made my first research trip to Bristol where over the course of two weeks[…]
Read moreOver the past few weeks, prompted by seeing a copy of it in Walter Scott’s library during our trip to[…]
Read moreOne of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]
Read more21 March 2022 was World Poetry Day. The Books and Borrowing team were either observing the strike action called by[…]
Read moreToday, 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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