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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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A Comparison of the Borrowings of Different Classes at the Library of Innerpeffray, John Gray Library, Haddington, and Selkirk Subscription Library

6 September 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Books, Borrowers

In my last blog post, I discussed the Library of Innerpeffray’s exceptional labouring-class borrowing demographic. Labouring-class people were the driving[…]

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Agricultural Improvement at Westerkirk Library

30 August 2021 Alex Deans Books, Partners

One of the fascinating things about working on the records of Westerkirk Parish Library has been watching the way its[…]

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Writing One’s Own Story with Walter Scott

15 August 2021 Gerard McKeever Books

Your author’s quill commands no life to grow The codex mute remains in dusty gloom ’Till, tripping lightly thro’ the[…]

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Labouring-Class Borrowing at Innerpeffray Library, 1815-1833

2 August 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Books, Borrowers, Partners

Now that I’m in the final few weeks of my Carnegie-funded research with Books and Borrowing (I’m very sad about[…]

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Return from Orkney

28 June 2021 Katie Halsey Books, Partners

Like Harriot Byron, I ask, what am I to do with my gratitude? I can do nothing but thank you[…]

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image of the Lighton Library's copy of Moore's Zeluco

The Most Borrowed Books of the Leighton Library’s Water Drinkers

21 June 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Books, Borrowers

by Jacqueline Kennard I’m thrilled about my temporary placement with Books and Borrowing and to be writing my first blog[…]

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Walter Scott at Innerpeffray: Read to Death

7 June 2021 Isla Macfarlane Books, Borrowers, Holdings, Partners

Innerpeffray Library has now re-opened to visitors! After a longer than usual winter closure period due to lockdown and Covid-19[…]

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Life Cycles and Henry Brooke’s The Fool of Quality

24 May 2021 Matt Sangster Books

In each of our weekly meetings for Books and Borrowing, we talk a bit about what we’ve been noticing in[…]

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Image showing book loan entries from May 1769 from Edinburgh Unversity Libary

A First Look at the University of Edinburgh Library Borrowers’ Receipt Books

17 May 2021 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

We were delighted to report on a milestone on Twitter for our project last month: We have now taken delivery[…]

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The Koran that Wasn’t: A Cataloguing Adventure from Craigston Castle

26 April 2021 Sandra Cumming Books, Holdings, Partners

Craigston Castle’s ‘Koran’ is far from spectacular but as is so often the case with older books, appearances are deceptive.[…]

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