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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Title page: Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic [sic] or Erse language (Edinburgh, 1769)

Seeking the Sublime: Elizabeth Montagu in Scotland, August 1766

15 March 2021 Kit Baston Books

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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Isaac Cruickshank, Scotch Cleanliness ni vide Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808-27). Boston Public Library. This caricature suggests the popularity of Hamilton’s novel in its day

World Book Day with Books and Borrowing

4 March 2021 Katie Halsey Books

Today, Thursday 4 March 2021, we celebrate World Book Day with a look at some of the favourite books in[…]

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Jane Porter and the Historical Novel before Waverley

15 February 2021 Alex Deans Books, Holdings

“The war which had desolated Scotland was now at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after passing under[…]

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Books for Borrowing: Walter Scott

8 February 2021 Gerard McKeever Books

Walter Scott’s novels typically feature at least one central character who has been conspicuously shaped by their reading and/or by[…]

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Illustration from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of foure-footed beastes, borrowed by Alexander Grindlay, of Madderty, on 12 December 1766

Christmas Borrowing!

14 December 2020 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]

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Rebellion, Enlightenment and Rollin

7 December 2020 Gerard McKeever Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

The commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]

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The World in Print: Borrowings of Voyages and Travels

30 November 2020 Alex Deans Books, Borrowers

Voyages and travels were among the most borrowed books from Scottish libraries in the eighteenth century and Romantic era. Travel[…]

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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]

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John Millar’s Borrowings in Spring 1768: A Preview of the Glasgow Professors Borrowing Registers

28 September 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Holdings

I was part of project to transcribe and analyse the University’s student and professorial borrowing registers in 2018 and 2019.[…]

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Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow

21 September 2020 Matt Sangster Books, Borrowers

One of the pilot projects for ‘Books and Borrowing’ was ‘Enlightenment Readers in the Scottish Universities’, which was funded by[…]

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