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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Lending Registers at Glamis Castle, 1699-1754

23 January 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Guest Posts

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…

16 January 2023 Matt Sangster Project News, Technical

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

9 January 2023 Katie Halsey Project News

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

19 December 2022 Katie Halsey Books

Normally, in my now-traditional Christmas blog post, I reflect on Christmas borrowing in one or more of our libraries. This[…]

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Building the Books and Borrowing Digital Resource

12 December 2022 Katie Halsey Project Team, Technical

Over the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have[…]

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Young Girl Reading, c. 1769, Jean-Honore Fragonard. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, US).

Metaphors of Reading, 1760-1830

28 November 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Project Team

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

21 November 2022 Josh Smith Borrowers

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)

14 November 2022 Katie Halsey Forgotten Best-Sellers

To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]

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Libraries, Lives and Legacies: Further Details on our Call for Papers for April 2023

7 November 2022 Matt Sangster Events, Project News

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

31 October 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

Second Sight Studying the Supernatural An entry showing that George Graham Bell borrowed ‘Aubreys Miscellanies’ from the Advocates Library on[…]

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Research Festival Call for Papers: Libraries, Lives and Legacies, April 2023

26 October 2022 Katie Halsey Events, Project News

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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