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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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
In my last blog post, I discussed the Library of Innerpeffray’s exceptional labouring-class borrowing demographic. Labouring-class people were the driving[…]
Read moreOne of the fascinating things about working on the records of Westerkirk Parish Library has been watching the way its[…]
Read moreYour author’s quill commands no life to grow The codex mute remains in dusty gloom ’Till, tripping lightly thro’ the[…]
Read moreNow that I’m in the final few weeks of my Carnegie-funded research with Books and Borrowing (I’m very sad about[…]
Read moreLike Harriot Byron, I ask, what am I to do with my gratitude? I can do nothing but thank you[…]
Read moreby Jacqueline Kennard I’m thrilled about my temporary placement with Books and Borrowing and to be writing my first blog[…]
Read moreInnerpeffray Library has now re-opened to visitors! After a longer than usual winter closure period due to lockdown and Covid-19[…]
Read moreIn each of our weekly meetings for Books and Borrowing, we talk a bit about what we’ve been noticing in[…]
Read moreWe were delighted to report on a milestone on Twitter for our project last month: We have now taken delivery[…]
Read moreCraigston Castle’s ‘Koran’ is far from spectacular but as is so often the case with older books, appearances are deceptive.[…]
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