My contract on the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers ends with the sounding of the bells at Hogmanay. So it’s a good time to do my annual catch-up post about the blogs I wrote the project. It’s been a good year with plenty of exciting topics to write about for…
Most of my blogging this year has been related to Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers. We’ve been concentrating on getting as much data as possible into our database before it’s ready for launch next spring. Even so the team managed to post a new blog almost every week that was…
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…
It has been a busy time for ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers’ since we started in June. We have been liaising with partners, working with digitised records, and adding information to our content management system. We’ve also been publishing a weekly blog to report on our findings and plans. My…
I’m happy to say that I’ve joined an exciting new project! ‘Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers’ is a three-year AHRC-funded project which explores How the untapped potential of Scottish borrowers’ registers can be employed to enrich our knowledge of the histories of books and reading. The project started at the…
