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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Rules for borrowing books from Simson's bequest

Robert Simson’s Books at the University of Glasgow

20 June 2022 Kit Baston Books, Partners

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

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Guest Post – Event Horizons: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth Century Glasgow

16 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

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

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Guest Post – University of Glasgow Library borrowing registers, beyond the borrowing: what additional insights can they provide?

3 May 2022 Gerard McKeever Borrowers, Events, Guest Posts, Project News

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

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Event Report: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

11 April 2022 Gerard McKeever Events, Partners, Project News

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

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Event Preview: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

4 April 2022 Gerard McKeever Events, Partners

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

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COP26 – Part 2: Latent Heat at the University Library

8 November 2021 Gerard McKeever Technical

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

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Leighton Water Drinkers Register, p.1: Mrs Dalzell’s Borrowings

Women Borrowers

8 March 2021 Katie Halsey Borrowers

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

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The Team Attends the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, 6th-8th January 2021

18 January 2021 Katie Halsey Events, Project News, Project Team

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

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William Hunter’s Library and Legacy: The Hunterian Museum Library

23 November 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

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

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John Millar’s Borrowings in Spring 1768: A Preview of the Glasgow Professors Borrowing Registers

28 September 2020 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Holdings

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

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