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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Library Lives: Books, Borrowers, and Beyond: Innerpeffray Library, Saturday 22 May

8 March 2021 Alex Deans Events, Partners

The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public event, to be held at the famous[…]

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Books, Borrowing, and the Bannatyne Club

1 March 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Guest Posts, Partners

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

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Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Josh Smith Borrowers, Partners

‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the sun, there is[…]

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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 Guest Posts, 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 Isla Macfarlane Partners, Project Team

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

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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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