A research project to uncover and reinterpret the history of reading in Scotland from 1750 to 1830 at the universities of Stirling and Glasgow.
Stirling and Glasgow
Joined June 2020
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Now exclusively at @books-borrowing.bsky.social. Find us there!
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📚 Don’t miss our current exhibition - only a couple of weeks left.
‘THIS REVOLUTION IN THE TOWN’: THE BRISTOL LIBRARY SOCIETY, 1772-1840
🗓️ Ends 31 October 2024
ALT Poster for exhibition with image of the old library on King Street
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I'm honoured and delighted to be giving the Ted Powell Memorial Lecture this year at @Innerpeffray Library. Join us at 7pm on 23rd October to hear about my research into library tourism and nineteenth-century visitors to the library: tickets available now!
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New merch alert! New Keeper of Books pin badges available for all library lovers. #KeeperofBooks #lovelibraries #library innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/sh…
ALT Green enamel square pinbadge saying Keeper of Books
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Footnotes from Innerpeffray October 2024 - mailchi.mp/a17491c79cf0/foot…
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Register for our seminar Wed 23 Oct 5:30 - 7:30pm (in person at the IHR & online) to hear Dr Tom Pye (UCL) discuss entail in Scotland in the late 18th century and its wider impact on the histories of unionism and political economy in Britain
@ihr_history
history.ac.uk/events/enduran…
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Are you researching women who made fashion, at any time or place through history? Then this is a reminder to please consider submitting an article for my special issue of Women’s History Review. Deadline 18th November.
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If you're interested in finding more out about Fergusson, our resources page on the website has details of podcasts, videos, a bibliography of suggested reading and much more ⤵️
If you think we should add anything, let us know!
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📢Our first seminar this year will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 23 October, at 5:30pm (GMT). We are thrilled to welcome Dr @WilcocksonAmy (@UofGlasgow), who will discuss "Scottish Scholarly Editing: Robert Fergusson and Thomas Campbell".
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We’re very excited by this public lecture ‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture’ by Professor Michael Gamer. Friday 13th December: details below.
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Our Continuity of Care volunteers continue to uncover details of 19th C life in Simpson's asylum. This list of books purchased for the inmates library in 1837 includes Plutarch's Lives, Robinson Crusoe & Sermons for the Aged
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@books_borrowing @litandlang
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Reading the Room is a new John Fell funded project @UniofOxford exploring what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, models of interpretation + engagement in libraries & complicating understandings of heritage libraries. english.web.ox.ac.uk/reading…
@ResearchNT
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The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon. I spoke to @angelaw49888140 theguardian.com/books/2024/o…
'Bid to reintroduce readers to Scotland's forgotten best seller': bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyl… #forgottenbestsellers Scott is by some margin the most popular author in the @books_borrowing database: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/facts/ He's also a borrower: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/…
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/...You can explore Books & Borrowers project, related to Dunblane's historic Leighton Library at "Books & Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830" website database accessible from the Leighton Library website leightonlibrary.org.uk/books…
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Grateful thanks to all who attended the presentation in Cromlix on Sunday about visitors to Dunblane in centuries past who came to take therapeutic waters of Cromlix (taking out a subscription to Dunblane's historic Leighton Library). The highly informative presentation.../👇
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to REALLY meet a 18th-century poet?
Now here's your chance! Check out @MaryKingsClose's new 'Meet the Poet: Robert Fergusson' for a tour underneath historic Edinburgh, poetry session, and dram of whisky!
realmarykingsclose.com/event…
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Still a few days to apply for this year’s BARS/BAVS C19 Matters Fellowship @RoyalHolloway - deadline Monday 12 Aug; don’t delay!
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Just under 2 weeks to get your applications in for this year’s @BARS_official/@BAVS_UK-funded C19 Matters Fellowship.
All unaffiliated ECRs working on long C19 welcome to apply - don’t hesitate to reach out with questions.
Deadline 12 Aug - we look forward to hearing from you!
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📢 We are thrilled to share our CFP for the Romanticism Across Borders International Conference,
24–25 March 2025, Université Paris Cité, Hôtel de Lauzun.
Proposals by 1 Nov
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