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dc.contributorHalsey, Katie-
dc.contributor.otherAHRC - Arts and Humanities Research Councilen_GB
dc.coverage.spatialScotlanden_GB
dc.coverage.temporal1747-1836en_GB
dc.creatorHalsey, Katie-
dc.creatorAitken, Brian-
dc.creatorSangster, Matthew-
dc.creatorMcKeever, Gerard Lee-
dc.creatorDeans, Alex-
dc.creatorBaston, Karen-
dc.creatorBranagh-Miscampbell, Maxine-
dc.creatorSmith, Joshua J-
dc.creatorKennard, Jacqueline-
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T10:56:53Z-
dc.date.available2024-06-14T10:56:53Z-
dc.date.created2023-12-31-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11667/233-
dc.description.abstractThe 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. Scottishen_GB
dc.description.tableofcontentsThe 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.en_GB
dc.language.isoengen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Stirling. Faculty of Arts and Humanitiesen_GB
dc.relationHalsey, 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/11667/233en_GB
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/en_GB
dc.sourceHistorical Borrowers Registersen_GB
dc.subjectHistory of Librariesen_GB
dc.subjectHistory of Readingen_GB
dc.subjectSocial Historyen_GB
dc.subjectBooksen_GB
dc.subjectBorrowersen_GB
dc.subjectCultural Historyen_GB
dc.subject.classification::Historyen_GB
dc.subject.classification::Library and information studiesen_GB
dc.subject.classification::Languages and Literatureen_GB
dc.titleBooks and Borrowing 1750-1830en_GB
dc.title.alternativeAn Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registersen_GB
dc.typedataseten_GB
dc.description.version1en_GB
dc.contributor.emailkatherine.halsey@stir.ac.uken_GB
dc.identifier.projectidAH/T003960/1en_GB
dc.title.projectBooks and Borrowing 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registersen_GB
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Stirling (English Studies)en_GB
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Stirling (History)en_GB
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Glasgowen_GB
dc.rights.embeddedAll 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.en_GB
dc.date.publicationyear2023en_GB
dc.description.accessThe data can all be downloaded using API from the website https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/en_GB
dc.identifier.wtid449794en_GB
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