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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Category: Holdings

The Final Year: What Goes In?

4 July 2022 Matt Sangster Holdings, Project News, Project Team

The end of Year 2 is an odd time for a project like this.  We can, I think, rightly be[…]

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Anatomy of a Holding: Robert Burns at the Wigtown Subscription Library

24 January 2022 Gerard McKeever Books, Holdings, Partners

The accounts of the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway register a payment of one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence for[…]

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Numbers, Focus and Prioritisation

18 October 2021 Matt Sangster Books, Borrowers, Holdings

Over the last few weeks, the Books and Borrowing team have been working on a problem of which we were[…]

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A First Look at the Aberdeen Theological Library

4 October 2021 Gerard McKeever Holdings, Partners, Project News

In 1826, the first of a series of royal commissions was established that would report on the condition and management[…]

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Walter Scott at Innerpeffray: Read to Death

7 June 2021 Isla Macfarlane Books, Borrowers, Holdings, Partners

Innerpeffray Library has now re-opened to visitors! After a longer than usual winter closure period due to lockdown and Covid-19[…]

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The Koran that Wasn’t: A Cataloguing Adventure from Craigston Castle

26 April 2021 Sandra Cumming Books, Holdings, Partners

Craigston Castle’s ‘Koran’ is far from spectacular but as is so often the case with older books, appearances are deceptive.[…]

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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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Broughton House Visit

12 October 2020 Gerard McKeever Holdings, Project News

Broughton House in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright is the former home of the colourist painter Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933),[…]

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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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