Partners – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

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[…]

by Isla Macfarlane Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on[…]

Very exciting news this week – we are adding another library to our project! We are very grateful to be[…]

Returning to the archives felt like a very exciting moment! I spent two days photographing the manuscript registers of the[…]

One of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]

Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]