Events – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The Pirate, The Sea and a Cargo of Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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