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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Political Readers and the Associational Reading Space: Starting a PhD on Library Records

26 October 2020 Josh Smith Project News, Project Team

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

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Subject Classifications

19 October 2020 Kit Baston Project News

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

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Broughton House Visit

12 October 2020 Gerard McKeever Holdings, Project News

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

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A year at Westerkirk

5 October 2020 Alex Deans Project News

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

14 September 2020 Katie Halsey Partners, Project News, Project Team

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

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The (Huge!) Borrowing Records of St Andrews

31 August 2020 Gerard McKeever Partners, Project News

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

3 August 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Project News

Over the past few weeks, one of the things we have been discussing as a team is how to structure[…]

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The Road to Westerkirk

27 July 2020 Alex Deans Project News

With the tentative lifting of Covid-19 restrictions, I was recently able to conduct my first bit of Books and Borrowing[…]

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Unsung Heroes

9 July 2020 Katie Halsey Project News

In last week’s blog, Brian Aitken wrote about importing existing datasets into our Content Management System. Two of those datasets[…]

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Importing existing datasets

6 July 2020 Brian Aitken Project News, Technical

The project is bringing together data on books, borrowers and borrowings that have been transcribed by previous projects, with the[…]

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