Partners – Page 3 – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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

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

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

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

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[…]

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

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[…]