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Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Partners

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

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Jane Porter and the Historical Novel before Waverley

15 February 2021 Alex Deans Books, Holdings

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

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Books for Borrowing: Walter Scott

8 February 2021 Gerard McKeever Books

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

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A page from the Leighton Library Borrowing Registers.

Reporting on Progress

1 February 2021 Katie Halsey Project News

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

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Twitter screenshot, showing an excerpt from the Innerpeffray Visitor Books and reading, "You have GOT to be kidding me."

Transcription Tales: The Visitors of Innerpeffray

25 January 2021 Kit Baston Project Team

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

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The Team Attends the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, 6th-8th January 2021

18 January 2021 Katie Halsey Project News, Project Team

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

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Illustration from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of foure-footed beastes, borrowed by Alexander Grindlay, of Madderty, on 12 December 1766

Christmas Borrowing!

14 December 2020 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

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

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Rebellion, Enlightenment and Rollin

7 December 2020 Gerard McKeever Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

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

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The World in Print: Borrowings of Voyages and Travels

30 November 2020 Alex Deans Books, Borrowers

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

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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

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

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