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Transcription Tales: The Visitors of Innerpeffray

25 January 2021 Kit Baston Project Team

by Isla Macfarlane Transcription is essential for most archival research and can be both a very enjoyable and frustrating activity.[…]

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

18 January 2021 Katie Halsey 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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The signatures of J.M. Barrie, Charlotte F. Shaw and George Bernard Shaw, September 1924, Innerpeffray Library Visitors Book volume 4, f.1r

Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White

2 November 2020 Kit Baston Partners, Project Team

by Isla Macfarlane Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on[…]

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

26 October 2020 Kit Baston 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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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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Book: Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831

10 August 2020 Gerard McKeever Project Team

Having now officially come on board with ‘Books and Borrowing’ (hooray!) and by way of introduction, I’d like to use[…]

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