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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Partners

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

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Illustration from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of foure-footed beastes, borrowed by Alexander Grindlay, of Madderty, on 12 December 1766

Christmas Borrowing!

14 December 2020 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

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

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Rebellion, Enlightenment and Rollin

7 December 2020 Gerard McKeever Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

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

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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

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

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Fraser James and Ellie Haddington, actors.

Illuminating Libraries

11 November 2020 Kit Baston Partners

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

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The signatures of J.M. Barrie, Charlotte F. Shaw and George Bernard Shaw, September 1924, Innerpeffray Library Visitors Book volume 4, f.1r

Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White

2 November 2020 Kit Baston Partners, Project Team

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

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map of Aberdeenshire

Craigston Castle Borrowers’ Register

14 September 2020 Katie Halsey Partners, Project News, Project Team

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

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Leighton Library

Water Drinkers at Leighton Library

7 September 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Partners

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

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The (Huge!) Borrowing Records of St Andrews

31 August 2020 Gerard McKeever Partners, Project News

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

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Books and Borrowing and the First Scottish Enlightenment, a guest post by Kelsey Jackson Williams

24 August 2020 Kit Baston Partners

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

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