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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Tag: Innerpeffray Library

Twitter screenshot, showing an excerpt from the Innerpeffray Visitor Books and reading, "You have GOT to be kidding me."

Transcription Tales: The Visitors of Innerpeffray

25 January 2021 Isla Macfarlane Project Team

Transcription is essential for most archival research and can be both a very enjoyable and frustrating activity. It is incredibly[…]

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Illustration from Edward Topsell’s The Historie of foure-footed beastes, borrowed by Alexander Grindlay, of Madderty, on 12 December 1766

Christmas Borrowing!

14 December 2020 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers, Partners, Project News

As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]

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Fraser James and Ellie Haddington, actors.

Illuminating Libraries

11 November 2020 Kit Baston Guest Posts, Partners

A guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]

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The signatures of J.M. Barrie, Charlotte F. Shaw and George Bernard Shaw, September 1924, Innerpeffray Library Visitors Book volume 4, f.1r

Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White

2 November 2020 Isla Macfarlane Partners, Project Team

Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on the Books and[…]

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Thomas Paine

William Young and his Petition to the Sheriff of Perthshire

20 July 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers

During the course of writing an essay on Romantic period readers at the Library of Innerpeffray for a collection entitled[…]

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Register entry from Innerpeffray Library

Innerpeffray Library’s Borrowers’ Registers Pilot Project; or How the Whole Thing Started

6 July 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Project News

When I took up my current post at the University of Stirling, after working at the Universities of Cambridge, St[…]

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