Journal Articles

Karen Baston, ‘The Advocates Library and the Writing of History, 1750-1820’, Library & Information History 40, no. 3 (2024): 184-200. https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2024.0182

Karen Baston, Katie Halsey, and Joshua Smith, ‘Books and Borrowing: Agents, Access, and Accountability, c. 1600–1850′, Library & Information History 40, no. 2 (2024): 81-85. https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2024.0171

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 (Winner of the CILIP Library History Essay Award 2022).

Karen Baston, ‘Nineteenth-Century Nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge Steam Engine’, The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, new series, 12 (2016), pp. 27-36. (Download pdf)

Karen G. Baston and John W. Cairns, ‘An Elegant Legal Education: The Studies of Charles Binning, a Scottish Pupil of Cornelis van Eck’, 83(1-2) Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis (2015), pp. 179-201.
doi: 10.1163/15718190-08312p09 (Edinburgh Research Explorer)