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Tag: Innerpeffray Library
Christmas Borrowing!
As this will be our last blog before Christmas, due to the closure of both Universities over the holiday season,[…]
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Illuminating Libraries
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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Visitors at Innerpeffray Library: J.M Barrie, George Bernard Shaw and Adam White
Exploring the history of reading, libraries, and historical tourism, I am one of the new researchers on the Books and[…]
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William Young and his Petition to the Sheriff of Perthshire
During the course of writing an essay on Romantic period readers at the Library of Innerpeffray for a collection entitled[…]
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Innerpeffray Library’s Borrowers’ Registers Pilot Project; or How the Whole Thing Started
When I took up my current post at the University of Stirling, after working at the Universities of Cambridge, St[…]
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