Holdings – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The Final Year: What Goes In?

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The war which had desolated Scotland was now at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after passing under[…]

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

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