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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers

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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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In Memoriam William St Clair

19 July 2021 Katie Halsey Project News

The Books and Borrowing team were all saddened to hear of the recent death of William St Clair. In what[…]

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Robert Chambers’ Circulating Library Borrowing Register, 1828-1829

12 July 2021 Kit Baston Partners, Project News

The Chambers Library Borrowing Register: A Unique Manuscript A surviving borrowing register for Robert Chambers’ circulating library, which operated in[…]

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Celebrity Spotting – Robert Riddell at St Andrews

14 June 2021 Gerard McKeever Borrowers, Project News

Work has been continuing on the massive body of borrowing data we have from St Andrews University library. With the[…]

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Event Report: Library Lives at Innerpeffray

1 June 2021 Alex Deans Project News

On Saturday 22nd May we held the first of several project events intended to bring our work with Scotland’s historical[…]

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Image showing book loan entries from May 1769 from Edinburgh Unversity Libary

A First Look at the University of Edinburgh Library Borrowers’ Receipt Books

17 May 2021 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

We were delighted to report on a milestone on Twitter for our project last month: We have now taken delivery[…]

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A page from the Leighton Library Borrowing Registers.

Reporting on Progress

1 February 2021 Katie Halsey Project News

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

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The Team Attends the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, 6th-8th January 2021

18 January 2021 Katie Halsey Events, Project News, Project Team

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

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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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Types of Libraries

9 November 2020 Katie Halsey Project News

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

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