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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Libraries, Lives and Legacies: Further Details on our Call for Papers for April 2023

7 November 2022 Matt Sangster Events, Project News

This week, we’d like to highlight the Call for Papers we posted a couple of weeks back (posted again in[…]

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Research Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023

26 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Project News

Libraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition Announcement

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events, Project News

Calling all creative writers! The Books and Borrowing project are delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Books and[…]

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Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition: Materials

24 October 2022 Katie Halsey Creative Writing Competition, Events

The materials here are provided in support of the Books and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition. Innerpeffray Library Transcription 1859 Nov[…]

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Satircal print of early-19th century readers. Romancing Molly asks, 'Hav'nt you no Rum-ances in 5 Wollums?' Sir Larvey Luscious asks, 'Have you the last of Harrite Wilson?' Political Dustman says, 'I vants a Cobbett', and Frank a la Mode asks, 'Pray is a Waverley's new Novel out?

Event Report: Online Creative Writing Workshop: Books and Borrowing

3 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Partners

On 31 August 2022, I had the pleasure of attending the Books and Borrowing Online Creative Writing Workshop, hosted in[…]

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Event Report: Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers

27 June 2022 Alex Deans Events, Partners, Project News

On Thursday 23rd June, members of the Books and Borrowing team were joined by an online audience for an event[…]

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Image of The ship, Pirate

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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