by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]
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Category: Project News
Subject Classifications
An important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]
Read moreBroughton House Visit
Broughton House in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright is the former home of the colourist painter Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933),[…]
Read moreA year at Westerkirk
Back in July, I wrote about my trip to the evocative Westerkirk Parish Library in Dumfriesshire to photograph materials for[…]
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Craigston Castle Borrowers’ Register
Very exciting news this week – we are adding another library to our project! We are very grateful to be[…]
Read moreThe (Huge!) Borrowing Records of St Andrews
One of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]
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Religious Occupations
Over the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]
Read moreThe Road to Westerkirk
With the tentative lifting of Covid-19 restrictions, I was recently able to conduct my first bit of Books and Borrowing[…]
Read moreUnsung Heroes
In last week’s blog, Brian Aitken wrote about importing existing datasets into our Content Management System. Two of those datasets[…]
Read moreImporting existing datasets
The project is bringing together data on books, borrowers and borrowings that have been transcribed by previous projects, with the[…]
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