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We’re ready for our first visit of the season from a busload from the Netherlands. This means no full tours of the library between 2-4pm every Thurs between now & September-BUT you can still explore Scottish first editions! Image of tulips (how appropriate!) from 'Familiar Garden Flowers,' 1879.

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On Wednesday 14th May, we're delighted to welcome Mike Bullock, Chief Exec of the Northern Lighthouse Board to talk all things lighthouses - and beyond! Talk begins at 7pm in the Old Schoolroom. Tickets £10, available here: innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

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Very excited for the installation of 'Reading Forms; A Site-Specific Exhibition' today! Gorgeous work by textile Artist Helen Gallogly will be on display at Innerpeffray during May, with a launch event tomorrow eve and tours & talks throughout the month.

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We launched our catalogue today - watch it here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/whats-on/

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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-m...

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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.

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Tickets for the launch of Helen Gallogly's Reading Forms exhibition are now available! #textileartist #booklove #lovelibraries innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

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"Notes like running water" - that's how the music of Morag Brown and Lewis Powell-Reid has been described, drawing on a well of tunes from Scotland to the Balkans. Come and hear them in the Chapel on Sunday 27th April, 3pm. Tickets available via our website. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_V...

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Up next at Innerpeffray on Wednesday 9th April - a special evening of words and music performed by Crawford Logan, Peter Banks & Joan Taylor. We had a wonderful evening last year, and this event promises to be no less engaging. It will be preceded by the Friends's AGM at 6.30 in the Schoolroom

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It's been a busy few months helping to set Below Stairs Books up! Thank you to the Georgian House for letting me work on what has been such a fun project. Do come and visit our quirky secondhand bookshop 7 Charlotte Square in Edinburgh's New Town. @n-t-s.bsky.social 📚 #BelowStairsBooks

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This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of novelist, biographer, historian and writer of the 'shocker' John Buchan. We are delighted to be hosting a talk from his granddaughter Ursula Buchan on 20th March "Beyond the 39 Steps" innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

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Did you know you can visit our #HeritageTrail all year round (free). We're closed while we create our next exhibition so here are some outdoor pictures to tempt you.

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The siller moonlicht straiks ower this boorach o neds that jumped me, hellbent oan ma daith… —Frances Robson, “Daith o Saint Andrew” A Scots poem for #StAndrewsDay – inspired by Peter Howson’s “Andrew, Portrait of a Saint” www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/daith-o...

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Our new exhibition opens this coming week @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social: ‘Oracles, omens and answers’ with a gorgeous new book from my colleagues in Bodleian Publishing. Not to be missed!

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Our book hedgehog Henrietta has a festive hat for the Carols this weekend.

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As Advent draws nigh, so too do our traditional carol concerts, led by the Innerpeffray Singers - two in the Library on Sat 31st Nov and one in the Innerpeffray Chapel on Sun 1st Dec. Tickets available here: innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk Book now and come join the happy throng!

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The Wreath Making Workshop is going ahead today - and a repeat session tomorrow, Sunday 24th at 2.30pm. Spaces available on the door for both (£35).

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We're greatly looking forward to a night of "pleasing terror" this evening with Nunkie Theatre and the tales of M.R. James. There are only a couple of spaces left, and the performance starts at 7pm sharp in the Schoolroom, no late admittances. Suitable for ages 13+, tickets £18.00

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We're gearing up for #MuseumShopSunday with our new collection of enamel badges now in our online shop innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/en... #cat #library #lovelibraries

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Can anyone tell us who 'the Ph ---' is/are in Ramsay's ode? #18thcentury #scottishliterature #poetry 🧐

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Before JEKYLL & HYDE, there was James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824): “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness. It’s also a story of ‘doubles’, or doppelgangers” #WyrdWednesday johannapolus.medium.com/the-devil-is...

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

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We're hosting our Festive Fayre today! Come along for lovely literary and local craft gifts today and tomorrow, Friday and Saturday 10am - 4pm.

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If you can't make it along we will have a recorded version available to view on our website tomorrow. Contact us for access details (small donation).

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Also important for new Bluesky members: the standard for examining rare books or archival material is to use clean, dry, bare hands. Gloves made of cotton or other substances are likely to catch on delicate pages and risk damaging them.

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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-...

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Big thanks to Sue Lawrence and our Friends for the event on Saturday highlighting Mrs Maciver's Cookery and Pastry and Sue's New Scottish Baking!

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The season is changing...

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We have news! We can announce the Writers in Residence 2025 are: Tawseef Khan (Muslim, Actually) Liz Berry (The Home Child) Caroline Crampton (A Body Made of Glass) Selali Fiamanya (Before We Hit the Ground) Joanna Miller (The Eights) Congratulations, all! 🧵 1/2

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