Glasgow University Library – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Robert Simson’s Books at the University of Glasgow

One of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]

by Christina Devlin, Professor of English and Reading, Montgomery College, Maryland In April, I was a guest at Books and[…]

by Robert MacLean, Assistant Librarian in Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at the[…]

We had the pleasure of running an event in Glasgow University Library Special Collections last week. This was an opportunity[…]

On Thursday 7th April, we are running the next of our project events: ‘Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow’ will[…]

This is the second of a pair of blogs exploring environmental aspects of the study of borrowing records from historic[…]

Today is International Women’s Day, and so I have been reflecting on the women in our records. I thought I[…]

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

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

I was part of project to transcribe and analyse the University’s student and professorial borrowing registers in 2018 and 2019.[…]