Cuchullin sat by Tura’s wall; by the tree of the rustling leaf.—His spear leaned against the mossy rock. His shield[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
Cuchullin sat by Tura’s wall; by the tree of the rustling leaf.—His spear leaned against the mossy rock. His shield[…]
Read moreToday, Thursday 4 March 2021, we celebrate World Book Day with a look at some of the favourite books in[…]
Read more“The war which had desolated Scotland was now at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after passing under[…]
Read moreWalter Scott’s novels typically feature at least one central character who has been conspicuously shaped by their reading and/or by[…]
Read moreAs this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]
Read moreThe commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]
Read moreVoyages and travels were among the most borrowed books from Scottish libraries in the eighteenth century and Romantic era. Travel[…]
Read moreDr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]
Read moreI was part of project to transcribe and analyse the University’s student and professorial borrowing registers in 2018 and 2019.[…]
Read moreOne of the pilot projects for ‘Books and Borrowing’ was ‘Enlightenment Readers in the Scottish Universities’, which was funded by[…]
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