by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]
Read moreAs this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]
Read moreThe commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]
Read moreDr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]
Read moreA guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]
Read moreby Isla Macfarlane Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on[…]
Read moreVery exciting news this week – we are adding another library to our project! We are very grateful to be[…]
Read moreReturning to the archives felt like a very exciting moment! I spent two days photographing the manuscript registers of the[…]
Read moreOne of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]
Read morePurchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]
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