Borrowers – Page 3 – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Women Borrowers at Westerkirk Library

To mark Women’s History Month, we’re running a series of blogs to highlight the women who wrote and borrowed the[…]

Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]

By Kelsey Jackson Williams Not many people today would recognise the Bannatyne Club if you mentioned it in casual conversation,[…]

‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the sun, there is[…]

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

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

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

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

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

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