Kit Baston
@kgbaston.bsky.social
Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century | Research Fellow, Books and Borrowing (2020-2023) | www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit-baston-36998540
Lovely visit to @merchantshallyork.org this morning - cafe and Hall both on great form! 🤩
August 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Lovely visit to @merchantshallyork.org this morning - cafe and Hall both on great form! 🤩
I finally got around to taking some photos of the 'West End Girls' Exhibition at The Georgian House:
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I finally got around to taking some photos of the 'West End Girls' Exhibition at The Georgian House:
Project overlap! A letter of recommendation by William Laing, Minister of Crieff, supporting a job application for Watson's Institution in 1830. He's also a borrower from @innerpeffray.bsky.social that year. @books-borrowing.bsky.social @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Https://tinyurl.com/4ctz4z76 ✉️📚
July 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Project overlap! A letter of recommendation by William Laing, Minister of Crieff, supporting a job application for Watson's Institution in 1830. He's also a borrower from @innerpeffray.bsky.social that year. @books-borrowing.bsky.social @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Https://tinyurl.com/4ctz4z76 ✉️📚
'West End Girls' - a new summer exhibition at The Georgian House, Edinburgh - I helped! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2025/06/25/w... 📚👧👧👧📖🪶
June 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
'West End Girls' - a new summer exhibition at The Georgian House, Edinburgh - I helped! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2025/06/25/w... 📚👧👧👧📖🪶
chng.it/xJxcMQXPsX #DoTheWriteThing Please sign the Change.org petition. I have made nothing from publishing my book - the publisher owns the rights - and I resent that it's been scraped to train AI without my consent (or I imagine @degruyterbrill.bsky.social's!)
April 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
chng.it/xJxcMQXPsX #DoTheWriteThing Please sign the Change.org petition. I have made nothing from publishing my book - the publisher owns the rights - and I resent that it's been scraped to train AI without my consent (or I imagine @degruyterbrill.bsky.social's!)
Delighted to receive the latest issue of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club from @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social today! It includes my article 'Borrowing Books in a City of Literature, 1750-1830' based on my work with @books-borrowing.bsky.social and the talk on the Edinburgh libraries included in...
March 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Delighted to receive the latest issue of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club from @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social today! It includes my article 'Borrowing Books in a City of Literature, 1750-1830' based on my work with @books-borrowing.bsky.social and the talk on the Edinburgh libraries included in...
This is an amazing resource! So many mills. Can definitely see the course of the Water of Leith from Balerno to Leith. (Some remains of the old mills are still visible.)
November 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
This is an amazing resource! So many mills. Can definitely see the course of the Water of Leith from Balerno to Leith. (Some remains of the old mills are still visible.)
From Books and Borrowing at the other place ... It's been an amazing few years and it's (almost!) good-bye from us. Katie Halsey reflects on the project here: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/books-and-bo... Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2024!
December 20, 2023 at 9:32 AM
From Books and Borrowing at the other place ... It's been an amazing few years and it's (almost!) good-bye from us. Katie Halsey reflects on the project here: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/books-and-bo... Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2024!
Lovely to catch up with some old friends as a guest at the @signetlibrary.bsky.social's Annual Dinner yesterday: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/a-painted-li... (Nice to catch up with people, too, and meet new friends!)
November 11, 2023 at 11:55 AM
Lovely to catch up with some old friends as a guest at the @signetlibrary.bsky.social's Annual Dinner yesterday: borrowing.stir.ac.uk/a-painted-li... (Nice to catch up with people, too, and meet new friends!)