Project News – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

The Archives Re-Open: Planning for Research in the Orkney Archives

News that archives and libraries are now able to re-open has been enormously welcome to the whole project team as[…]

A guest post by Sandra Cumming Craigston Castle’s ‘Koran’ is far from spectacular but as is so often the case[…]

Guest post by Dr Karen E McAulay, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland In 1801, the University of St Andrews started binding[…]

An online event hosted by Innerpeffray Library The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public[…]

Any keeper of books will know that space is always at a premium and by the late 1790s, two Edinburgh[…]

To mark Women’s History Month, we’re running a series of blogs to highlight the women who wrote and borrowed the[…]

Cuchullin sat by Tura’s wall; by the tree of the rustling leaf.—His spear leaned against the mossy rock. His shield[…]

Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]

The Books and Borrowing Project is pleased to announce the project’s first public event, to be held at the famous[…]

Today, Thursday 4 March 2021, we celebrate World Book Day with a look at some of the favourite books in[…]