On 31 August 2022, I had the pleasure of attending the Books and Borrowing Online Creative Writing Workshop, hosted in[…]
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Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)
In 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]
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Farewell to Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans
This week, I have the sad task of bidding farewell to postdoctoral research fellows Gerry McKeever and Alex Deans. Gerry[…]
Read moreA Visitor to Innerpeffray Library: Héloïse Russell-Fergusson
Reposted with permission from the Innerpeffray Library Blog’s ‘Visitor Vignettes’ series The Innerpeffray Library visitors’ books contain signatures and details[…]
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Forgotten Best-Sellers: The World Displayed; or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels
From the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]
Read moreWhy Do Libraries Matter?
This week, I’ve been reflecting on a theme which is, of course, very close to our Books and Borrowing hearts.[…]
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All Together Now: Reflections on the ECSSS and BARS/NASSR conferences
It’s conference season in the academic world, and the ‘Books and Borrowing’ team were delighted to attend two conferences back[…]
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A Return to the Records of the Bristol Library Society
In September of last year, I made my first research trip to Bristol where over the course of two weeks[…]
Read moreIntroducing the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830
The Books and Borrowing team are pleased to announce the release of the Chambers’ Library Map of Borrowers, 1827-1830. What[…]
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Mrs Felix Yaniewicz and the Chambers’ Circulating Library, 1829
Sometimes the stars seem to align when going research. For Books and Borrowing, the configuration of the arrival and transcription[…]
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