The accounts of the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway register a payment of one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence for[…]
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The Midway Point
We are now at the midway point of the Books and Borrowing project! We are eighteen months in, with eighteen[…]
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A First Look at the Advocates Library
We have now taken delivery of a first set of images from the borrowers’ receipt books of the Advocates Library[…]
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A First Look at the Aberdeen Theological Library
In 1826, the first of a series of royal commissions was established that would report on the condition and management[…]
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The Royal High School of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh
I’ve been so delighted to get started with the Books and Borrowing team and have really enjoyed getting stuck in[…]
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Festival of Reading
Last week I spent a delightful few days at the Library of Innerpeffray’s inaugural Festival of Reading! From 8 to[…]
Read moreAgricultural Improvement at Westerkirk Library
One of the fascinating things about working on the records of Westerkirk Parish Library has been watching the way its[…]
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Labouring-Class Borrowing at Innerpeffray Library, 1815-1833
Now that I’m in the final few weeks of my Carnegie-funded research with Books and Borrowing (I’m very sad about[…]
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Beatrix Potter at Innerpeffray Library
First posted on the Library of Innerpeffray’s blog and cross-posted here by kind permission of the Keeper of Books Beatrix[…]
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Robert Chambers’ Circulating Library Borrowing Register, 1828-1829
The Chambers Library Borrowing Register: A Unique Manuscript A surviving borrowing register for Robert Chambers’ circulating library, which operated in[…]
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