Innerpeffray Library

Many thanks to all the team for making it happen, @Soutron and special guests Richard Ovenden Sir Alexander McCall Smith

Innerpeffray Library launched an online catalogue of our rare books yesterday - watch it from the link here: lnkd.in/eUWDHuDa and you can now search our books here: lnkd.in/egQ9tks8

All hail #Macbeth! #ShakespearesBirthday We are delighted to be loaning our copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to @perthmuseum.bsky.social for their latest exhibition - opens Friday! perthmuseum.co.uk/inside-the-mus…

Book via lnks below. A huge thank you to everyone who has helped to make the new catalogue possible. 10am us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 4pm us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We will broadcast the first session at 10am and then there will be a repeat session at 4pm (11am EDT for our North American friends). The event will last around 30 minutes and is free, but you should register in advance using one of the links below. 3/4

Join us online on Wed 30 April for our catalogue launch! It's been a long time coming, but we are at last able to share our full catalogue online and we invite you to join us for the launch. #rarebooks #libraries 1/4

Spring Footnotes from Innerpeffray - mailchi.mp/4f9cc3455bb7/s…

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Our shop is looking festive and will be open this weekend during our carol concerts for @museumshopsunday. If you can’t make it along, try our online shop - it’s full of unique gifts every purchase helps support the Library. innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/ #museumshopsunday

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Delighted to be joining in the Milton-athon with Milton's Cottage miltonscottage.org/miltonathon/ watch along with a shared marathon reading to mark the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death.

It’s all hands on deck at Innerpeffray as we prepare for our annual Festive Fayre! We have new items inspired by the Library, perfect for the booklover, and an array of arts & crafts, jams & chutneys. The image from our copy of North American Sylva, F. Andrew Michaux, 1859.

The countdown is on. The opening to story 6 in my new collection, Burials and Other Stories, published 27 November and launched at AK Bell Library Perth. All welcome robmcinroy.co.uk/burials #WritingCommunity #shortstories #HistoricalFiction #ScottishWriting

For All Hallows’ Eve, we present to you this skeleton from our collection 💀 It appears in Cowper’s text ‘A Defiance to Death’, 1610. This is our last day of the season, the Library will re-open in March 2025 - a huge thankyou to all our visitors in 2024!

One of the treasures here at Innerpeffray are our Visitors’ Books. This evening you can hear more about them through the research of @macfarisla, our AHRC PhD candidate. Her talk this evening begins at 7pm - tickets available on the door, and you can also watch online.

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The next Clan Hay lecture takes place on Saturday 16 November, when we will hear from Aberdeenshire author Mike Shepherd on 'The Jacobite Countesses,' two successive Countesses of Erroll, wives of successive Chiefs of Clan Hay, who were notable intriguers in the Jacobite cause.

A cup of tea - not the most controversial idea you would think? Not according to Mr Jonas Hanway, a Gentleman of the Partie in 1756... innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/for-all-the-te…

Theme is 'Scots and the Environment'—Scots abroad, the Scottish environment; the natural / built / cultural / political / intellectual / social environment … we are enjoying seeing abstracts arriving now. Do join us! CFP deadline 15 Nov. 2024