Partners – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The Archives Re-Open: Planning for Research in the Orkney Archives

News that archives and libraries are now able to re-open has been enormously welcome to the whole project team as[…]

A guest post by Sandra Cumming Craigston Castle’s ‘Koran’ is far from spectacular but as is so often the case[…]

An online event hosted by Innerpeffray Library The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public[…]

Any keeper of books will know that space is always at a premium and by the late 1790s, two Edinburgh[…]

By Kelsey Jackson Williams Not many people today would recognise the Bannatyne Club if you mentioned it in casual conversation,[…]

by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]

As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]

The commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]

Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]

A guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]