by Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling When exploring an old aristocratic library you dream of finding many things –[…]
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Final Year…
It doesn’t feel like Books and Borrowing has been running for two-and-a-half years, but this is nevertheless the case, and[…]
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Homecoming, Return and Recovery: The BSECS conference, 2023
Happy New Year! Can it really be 2023 already? The New Year got off to a good start for two[…]
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A Merry Christmas Post for 2022
Normally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]
Read moreBuilding the Books and Borrowing Digital Resource
Over the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have[…]
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Metaphors of Reading, 1760-1830
For the past few weeks, Cleo and I have been working together on an article that we hope to submit[…]
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Bruce, the Bible, and a Borrowing: James Bruce of Kinnaird and the Leighton Library, Dunblane
Working with historical borrowing records provides you with a host of names. In an earlier blog post, I wrote about[…]
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Another Forgotten Bestseller: Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Paul Clifford (1830)
To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]
Read moreLibraries, Lives and Legacies: Further Details on our Call for Papers for April 2023
This week, we’d like to highlight the Call for Papers we posted a couple of weeks back (posted again in[…]
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Supernatural Visions: A Halloween Post
Second Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]
Read moreResearch Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023
Libraries, 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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