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Karen 'Kit' Baston

Karen 'Kit' Baston

Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century

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Books and Borrowing Blog Posts (and other writing) 2021

Books and BorrowingKit Baston31/12/20210

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…

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A Tour Through (Part of) the Whole of Great Britain in October 2019: Introduction

AdventuresKit Baston22/10/20200

Normally, I don’t keep a journal during my travels, but I made a compromise last year. For years now, I have been starting each day with a ‘Morning Pages’ session. This is a practice that is meant to make me a proper writer. The idea is that I’m to get up each day and, before…

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Write Here: Learning to Write in Edinburgh

AdventuresKit Baston06/04/20190

At the finish of my latest time-limited job, I decided not to seek full-time work – unless something came up that I really wanted to do. I was lucky to have some part-time work lined up and some freelancing and my husband agreed that we’d manage. I’m lucky in that: it has not always been…

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