Project News – Page 2 – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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