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http://hdl.handle.net/11667/233| Appears in Collections: | University of Stirling Research Data |
| Title: | Books and Borrowing 1750-1830 |
| Other Titles: | An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers |
| Creator(s): | Halsey, Katie Aitken, Brian Sangster, Matthew McKeever, Gerard Lee Deans, Alex Baston, Karen Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine Smith, Joshua J Kennard, Jacqueline |
| Contact Email: | katherine.halsey@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | History of Libraries History of Reading Social History Books Borrowers Cultural History |
| Date Available: | 14-Jun-2024 |
| Citation: | Halsey, K; Aitken, B; Sangster, M; McKeever, GL; Deans, A; Baston, K; Branagh-Miscampbell, M; Smith, JJ; Kennard, J (2023): Books and Borrowing 1750-1830. Version 1. University of Stirling, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Dataset. http://hdl.handle.net/11667/233 |
| Publisher: | University of Stirling. Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Dataset Description (Abstract): | The dataset is of transcriptions of the historic borrowers' registers of 18 Scottish Libraries. Included are: Name of Book Borrowed, Name of Borrower, Dates of Issue and Return, Author, Author dates, Life dates of borrowers, Details of editions borrowed and links to catalogues both contemporary and modern. Scottish |
| Dataset Description (TOC): | The data reveals what people borrowed from 18 historic libraries across Scotland from 1750-1830. Data contains the borrowings of lead miners in Dumfries and Galloway, clergymen in Dunblane and Dumfries, advocates in Edinburgh, university students, professors and townspeople in the historic university towns of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow, and what Daniel Defoe called the ‘middling sort’ of people in Selkirk, Wigtown, Kirkwall, Haddington, and rural Perthshire. Libraries covered: Aberdeen Theological Library; Advocates Library; Chambers' Circulating Library; Craigston Castle Library; Dumfries Presbytery Library; Edinburgh University Library; Glasgow University Library; Haddington Library; Hunterian Museum Library; Innerpeffray Library; Inverness Kirk Sessions Library; Leighton Library; Orkney Library; Royal High School of Edinburgh; Selkirk Library; St Andrews University Library; Westerkirk; Wigtown Subscription Library. |
| Type: | dataset |
| Contract/Grant Title: | Books and Borrowing 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers |
| Funder(s): | AHRC - Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Contract/Grant Number: | AH/T003960/1 |
| Worktribe Project ID: | 449794 |
| Geographic Location(s): | Scotland |
| Time Period: | 1747-1836 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11667/233 |
| 3rd Party/Embedded Rights: | All data is made available via a Creative Commons license CC by NC 4.0. Copyright remains with the original copyright holders and has not been assigned to the project. |
| Affiliation(s) of Dataset Creator(s): | University of Stirling (English Studies) University of Stirling (History) University of Glasgow |
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