It doesn’t feel like Books and Borrowing has been running for two-and-a-half years, but this is nevertheless the case, and[…]
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Homecoming, Return and Recovery: The BSECS conference, 2023
Happy New Year! Can it really be 2023 already? The New Year got off to a good start for two[…]
Read moreLibraries, Lives and Legacies: Further Details on our Call for Papers for April 2023
This week, we’d like to highlight the Call for Papers we posted a couple of weeks back (posted again in[…]
Read moreResearch Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023
Libraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]
Read moreBooks and Borrowing Creative Writing Competition Announcement
Calling all creative writers! The Books and Borrowing project are delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Books and[…]
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A New Chapter
In October I started work on a new project, bringing my two years as a research fellow with Books and[…]
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All Together Now: Reflections on the ECSSS and BARS/NASSR conferences
It’s conference season in the academic world, and the ‘Books and Borrowing’ team were delighted to attend two conferences back[…]
Read moreIntroducing the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830
The Books and Borrowing team are pleased to announce the release of the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830. What[…]
Read moreThe Final Year: What Goes In?
The end of Year 2 is an odd time for a project like this. We can, I think, rightly be[…]
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Event Report: Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers
On Thursday 23rd June, members of the Books and Borrowing team were joined by an online audience for an event[…]
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