Project News – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

by Josh Smith ‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the[…]

“The war which had desolated Scotland was now at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after passing under[…]

Walter Scott’s novels typically feature at least one central character who has been conspicuously shaped by their reading and/or by[…]

Just before Christmas, I wrote the second of the project’s progress reports, designed to bring the members of our Advisory[…]

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

Last week saw the project team join forces with our friends at the Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in[…]

As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]

The commonplace narratives of Scottish history tell us that, in the late 1740s and early 1750s, the nation was reckoning[…]

Voyages and travels were among the most borrowed books from Scottish libraries in the eighteenth century and Romantic era. Travel[…]

Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) left his collections to his nephew Matthew Baillie who had the use of them with the[…]