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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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The Pirate, The Sea and a Cargo of Books

6 June 2022 Kit Baston Borrowers, Events, Partners

by Linda Cracknell The moral compass was already set when I launched North in May to run a creative writing[…]

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Guest Post – Event Horizons: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth Century Glasgow

16 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

by Christina Devlin, Professor of English and Reading, Montgomery College, Maryland In April, I was a guest at Books and[…]

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Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers – Online Event with NLS

10 May 2022 Alex Deans Events, Partners, Project News

In conjunction with our partners at the National Library of Scotland, we’re pleased to announce the upcoming online event, ‘Books[…]

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Guest Post – Institutional Borrowing: Inventories, Registers, Receipt Books

3 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

By Dr Dahlia Porter, University of Glasgow [This post is based on a talk I gave at the Books and[…]

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Guest Post – University of Glasgow Library borrowing registers, beyond the borrowing: what additional insights can they provide?

3 May 2022 Gerard McKeever Borrowers, Events, Guest Posts, Project News

by Robert MacLean, Assistant Librarian in Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at the[…]

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Event Report: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

11 April 2022 Gerard McKeever Events, Partners, Project News

We had the pleasure of running an event in Glasgow University Library Special Collections last week. This was an opportunity[…]

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Event Preview: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

4 April 2022 Gerard McKeever Events, Partners

On Thursday 7th April, we are running the next of our project events: ‘Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow’ will[…]

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The Leighton Library’s Water Drinkers: An Exhibition

25 October 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Events, Project News

When I applied for my scholarship from the Carnegie Trust earlier this year I committed to creating an exhibition displaying[…]

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Festival of Reading

13 September 2021 Isla Macfarlane Events, Partners

Last week I spent a delightful few days at the Library of Innerpeffray’s inaugural Festival of Reading! From  8 to[…]

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Romantic-Period Book Circulation

23 August 2021 Katie Halsey Events

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of a salon – and the women who ran salons in the eighteenth[…]

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