Project News – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Reporting on Progress

Just before Christmas, I wrote the second of the project’s progress reports, designed to bring the members of our Advisory[…]

Last week saw the project team join forces with our friends at the Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

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[…]

A prevailing theme seems to be appearing on this blog, which is about our interest in categorisation and classification! Along[…]

by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]

An important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]

Broughton House in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright is the former home of the colourist painter Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933),[…]

Back in July, I wrote about my trip to the evocative Westerkirk Parish Library in Dumfriesshire to photograph materials for[…]

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