As with last year, my blogging has all been at the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers
My contributions to the Books and Borrowing blog for 2021 can be found here:
- Seeking the Sublime: Elizabeth Montagu in Scotland, August 1766
- A Painted Literary Parthenon for the Athens of the North
- A First Look at the University of Edinburgh Library Borrowers’ Receipt Books
- Robert Chambers’ Circulating Library Borrowing Register, 1828-1829
- William Robertson (1721-1793): Minister, Principal, Historian
- A First Look at the Advocates Library
I’m also happy to say that this article was published this year:
- Matthew Sangster, Karen Baston, and Brian Aitken, ‘Reconstructing Student Reading Habits in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow: Enlightenment Systems and Digital Reconfigurations’, Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 4 (2021): 935-955. doi:10.1353/ecs.2021.0098
You can consult the Glasgow student readers database here
Fiction
Meanwhile I am continuing with work on my novel, The Julian Club (an early 18th-century adventure), and I have plans for both its sequel and for a new story set in early 20th-century London. Research ahoy!