Advocates Library – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Event Report: Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers

On Thursday 23rd June, members of the Books and Borrowing team were joined by an online audience for an event[…]

In conjunction with our partners at the National Library of Scotland, we’re pleased to announce the upcoming online event, ‘Books[…]

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

We have now taken delivery of a first set of images from the borrowers’ receipt books of the Advocates Library[…]

Any keeper of books will know that space is always at a premium and by the late 1790s, two Edinburgh[…]