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 the team as well for me. Do check out the ‘News’ section of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ website for more book, reading, and library history.
My contributions this year were:
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The Maga, Murder, and Immanuel Kant: Thomas De Quincey and the Advocates Library
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Forgotten Best-Sellers: ‘Bell’s Surgery’
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Visiting the Advocates Library in the 18th Century
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Creating Our (Fabulous!) Online Exhibition with the University of Edinburgh
(You can visit ‘Library Lives: Hidden Histories of Reading in Georgian Edinburgh’ here.)
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Featured Borrowers: Sir Gilbert Blane: A Physician
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Featured Borrowers: Mrs Macleod of Cadboll
2023 was not the year for The Julian Club, my long-standing novel set in early eighteenth-century Edinburgh, but it did acquire a new title, The Punchbowl, which is progress.
Happy Holidays!
