by Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling When exploring an old aristocratic library you dream of finding many things –[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
by Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling When exploring an old aristocratic library you dream of finding many things –[…]
Read moreIt doesn’t feel like Books and Borrowing has been running for two-and-a-half years, but this is nevertheless the case, and[…]
Read moreHappy New Year! Can it really be 2023 already? The New Year got off to a good start for two[…]
Read moreNormally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]
Read moreOver the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have[…]
Read moreFor the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]
Read moreWorking with historical borrowing records provides you with a host of names. In an earlier blog post, I wrote about[…]
Read moreTo celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]
Read moreThis week, we’d like to highlight the Call for Papers we posted a couple of weeks back (posted again in[…]
Read moreSecond Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]
Read moreLibraries, Lives and Legacies Organised by the AHRC-funded ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830′ and ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]
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