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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Il étoit une fois…: The Advocates Library and the ‘Le Cabinet des Fées’

3 March 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

When I began transcribing the borrowing registers of the Advocates Library, I expected to find that law reports, Session Papers,[…]

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Early Reflections on Robert Chambers’ Edinburgh Circulating Library

23 February 2022 Alex Deans Borrowers, Project News

Back in July 2021, Kit Baston announced the exciting news that we’d be adding the records of Robert Chambers’ Edinburgh[…]

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Frontispiece and title page of the 1849 edition of Self-Control.

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)

7 February 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: John Moore’s Zeluco (1789)

31 January 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]

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Anatomy of a Holding: Robert Burns at the Wigtown Subscription Library

24 January 2022 Gerard McKeever Books, Holdings, Partners

The accounts of the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway register a payment of one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence for[…]

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William MacGregor Stirling: Minister, Historian, and Antiquarian

17 January 2022 Josh Smith Borrowers

It may seem facile to remark that behind each borrowing record is a borrower. Library records alone often tell us[…]

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Looking Forward to 2022

10 January 2022 Matt Sangster Project News, Project Team

The Books and Borrowing team have now returned to work after the holidays – in the first half of 2022,[…]

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Sign saying 'Halfway'

The Midway Point

20 December 2021 Katie Halsey Partners, Project News

We are now at the midway point of the Books and Borrowing project! We are eighteen months in, with eighteen[…]

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Christmas tree in the Signet Library

A Signet Library Tour for the Books and Borrowing Team

13 December 2021 Isla Macfarlane Project Team

The Books and Borrowing team was recently treated to a private tour of the Signet Library by our very own[…]

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map of Orkney parish

Christmas in Kirkwall

6 December 2021 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers

As the festive season approaches, I thought I would write something to get us all in the mood for Christmas.[…]

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