by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
by Josh Smith Recovering evidence of historical reading can often be a fraught endeavour for the historical researcher as the[…]
Read moreAn important consideration for our Books and Borrowing database is how useful it will be for researchers. Not just us,[…]
Read moreBroughton House in the coastal town of Kirkcudbright is the former home of the colourist painter Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933),[…]
Read moreBack in July, I wrote about my trip to the evocative Westerkirk Parish Library in Dumfriesshire to photograph materials for[…]
Read moreVery exciting news this week – we are adding another library to our project! We are very grateful to be[…]
Read moreOne of the most interesting aspects of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ project is the diversity of the libraries we are[…]
Read moreOver the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]
Read moreWith the tentative lifting of Covid-19 restrictions, I was recently able to conduct my first bit of Books and Borrowing[…]
Read moreIn last week’s blog, Brian Aitken wrote about importing existing datasets into our Content Management System. Two of those datasets[…]
Read moreThe project is bringing together data on books, borrowers and borrowings that have been transcribed by previous projects, with the[…]
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