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Tag: Leighton Library

Frontispiece and title page of the 1849 edition of Self-Control.

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)

7 February 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: John Moore’s Zeluco (1789)

31 January 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]

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William MacGregor Stirling: Minister, Historian, and Antiquarian

17 January 2022 Josh Smith Borrowers

It may seem facile to remark that behind each borrowing record is a borrower. Library records alone often tell us[…]

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image of the Lighton Library's copy of Moore's Zeluco

The Leighton Library’s Water Drinkers: An Exhibition

25 October 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Events, Project News

When I applied for my scholarship from the Carnegie Trust earlier this year I committed to creating an exhibition displaying[…]

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Title page of Scott's Waverley

Novel Reading in Post-Enlightenment Scotland: a PhD

11 October 2021 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Project News, Project Team

Hello! My name is Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman, and I am delighted to be joining the Books and Borrowing team as[…]

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Romantic Period Book Circulation: Our BARS Salon, 18 August 2021

2 August 2021 Kit Baston Events

Which books were really circulating in the Romantic Period? We will be hosting a salon at Romantic Disconnections/Reconnections, BARS’ International[…]

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image of the Lighton Library's copy of Moore's Zeluco

The Most Borrowed Books of the Leighton Library’s Water Drinkers

21 June 2021 Jacqueline Kennard Books, Borrowers

by Jacqueline Kennard I’m thrilled about my temporary placement with Books and Borrowing and to be writing my first blog[…]

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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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Minute Book of Westerkirk Parish Library, 1 August 1793.

Scottish Libraries and the Associational World

22 February 2021 Josh Smith Borrowers, Partners

‘Ours is the age of societies. For the redress of every oppression that is done under the sun, there is[…]

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Leighton Library

Water Drinkers at Leighton Library

7 September 2020 Katie Halsey Borrowers, Partners

Returning to the archives felt like a very exciting moment! I spent two days photographing the manuscript registers of the[…]

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