Dr Karen Baston
- Research Associate (English Language & Linguistics)
Publications
2024
Halsey, Katie, Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Aitken, Brian, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457, Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine, Macfarlane, Isla, Smith, Josh and O'Callaghan Yeoman, Cleo
(2024)
Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers.
[Website]
2023
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2023)
Iain Gordon Brown, Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North.
Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, 18,
pp. 112-113.
[Book Review]
2022
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2022)
Borrowers in Space and Time: Beyond the Scottish Borrowing Registers.
33rd Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Liverpool, UK, 28-30 Jul 2022.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2022)
Two Advocates: William Dauney and John Hope at Chambers’ Circulating Library and the Advocates Library.
Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers, Edinburgh, Scotland, 27 Jun 2022.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Sangster, Matthew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813
(2022)
'D -- d Good': Glasgow University Library Books and their Borrowers in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond.
Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 07 Apr 2022.
2021
Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Aitken, Brian
(2021)
Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations.
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4),
pp. 935-955.
(doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)
2020
Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Aitken, Brian
(2020)
Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow.
[Website]
2018
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2018)
A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskines of Alva and their books.
In: Boran, Elizabethann (ed.)
Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850.
Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 188-205.
ISBN 9781846827372
2017
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Gardham, Julie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-306X
(2017)
William Hunter's Library: a Transcription of the Early Catalogues: Transcription of Museum Records 1-3, Trustees Catalogues of Printed Books.
Catalogue.
University of Glasgow.
(Unpublished)
2016
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Two Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lawyers' Libraries: Lord Tinwald, Lord Alva, and Their Book Collections.
Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850, Dublin, Ireland, 25 Nov 2016.
(Unpublished)
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World (48).
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004315372
(doi: 10.1163/9789004315389)
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Nineteenth century nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge steam engine.
In:
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club.
Old Edinburgh Club: Edinburgh, pp. 27-36.
ISBN 9780993398711
2015
Baston, Karen G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2015)
Humanist books and lawyers’ libraries in early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's library.
In: Du Plessis, Paul J. and Cairns, John W. (eds.)
Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims: Petere Fontes?
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 348-376.
ISBN 9781474408851
Baston, Karen G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Cairns, John W.
(2015)
An elegant legal education: the studies of Charles Binning, a Scottish pupil of Cornelis van Eck.
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 83(1-2),
pp. 179-201.
(doi: 10.1163/15718190-08312p09)
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2015)
Signet Library Session Papers Index Digitised.
[Website]
2014
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2014)
The Universal Short Title Catalogue Database.
[Website]
2013
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Scottish Legal History Group Conference, 2013.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Natural Law in Scotland, 1625-1850: Part of Natural Law, 1625-1850: An International Research Network.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
The British Legal History Conference, Glasgow, 10-13 July 2013.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Understanding the Scottish Practicks.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
"Blessed among my Kind": William Roughead, Poet.
Signet Magazine(4),
pp. 26-28.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Book Review: John Finlay, The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 (EUP, 2012).
Eighteenth-Century Scotland(27),
pp. 32-33.
[Book Review]
2012
Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Metzger, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Eds.)
(2012)
The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works.
Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow.
ISBN 9780956642318
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Her Majesty's Signet.
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 22-23.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Oscar Slater: presumed guilty.
Signet Magazine(2),
pp. 13-14.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Oscar Slater: What Happened...
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 28-29.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
William Roughead's friends.
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 26-27.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Pirrie, Robert
(2012)
Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose.
Signet Magazine(2),
pp. 30-31.
2011
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Roman Law Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Louisiana: The Legal History of Europe in a Single US State.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Library gems.
Signet Magazine,
p. 19.
2004
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Bell, John (1763–1820).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Goldsmith, Francis (1613–1655).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10921)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Goodsir, John (1814–1867).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10983)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Manby, Peter (d. 1697).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/17920)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Reynolds, John (b. c.1588, d. after 1655).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/23422)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Sparrow, John (1615–1670).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/26087)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Vaughan, John, third earl of Carbery (bap. 1639, d. 1713).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28135)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Ward, Nathaniel (1578–1652).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28700)
Articles
Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Aitken, Brian
(2021)
Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations.
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4),
pp. 935-955.
(doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)
Baston, Karen G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Cairns, John W.
(2015)
An elegant legal education: the studies of Charles Binning, a Scottish pupil of Cornelis van Eck.
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 83(1-2),
pp. 179-201.
(doi: 10.1163/15718190-08312p09)
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
"Blessed among my Kind": William Roughead, Poet.
Signet Magazine(4),
pp. 26-28.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Her Majesty's Signet.
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 22-23.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Oscar Slater: presumed guilty.
Signet Magazine(2),
pp. 13-14.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
Oscar Slater: What Happened...
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 28-29.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2012)
William Roughead's friends.
Signet Magazine(3),
pp. 26-27.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Pirrie, Robert
(2012)
Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose.
Signet Magazine(2),
pp. 30-31.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Library gems.
Signet Magazine,
p. 19.
Books
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World (48).
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004315372
(doi: 10.1163/9789004315389)
Book Sections
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2018)
A family of readers in eighteenth-century Scotland: the Areskines of Alva and their books.
In: Boran, Elizabethann (ed.)
Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850.
Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 188-205.
ISBN 9781846827372
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Nineteenth century nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge steam engine.
In:
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club.
Old Edinburgh Club: Edinburgh, pp. 27-36.
ISBN 9780993398711
Baston, Karen G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2015)
Humanist books and lawyers’ libraries in early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Charles Areskine of Alva's library.
In: Du Plessis, Paul J. and Cairns, John W. (eds.)
Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims: Petere Fontes?
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 348-376.
ISBN 9781474408851
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Bell, John (1763–1820).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/2013)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Goldsmith, Francis (1613–1655).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10921)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Goodsir, John (1814–1867).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/10983)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Manby, Peter (d. 1697).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/17920)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Reynolds, John (b. c.1588, d. after 1655).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/23422)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Sparrow, John (1615–1670).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/26087)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Vaughan, John, third earl of Carbery (bap. 1639, d. 1713).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28135)
Grudzien Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2004)
Ward, Nathaniel (1578–1652).
In:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198614128
(doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/28700)
Book Reviews
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2023)
Iain Gordon Brown, Auld Greekie: Edinburgh as the Athens of the North.
Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, 18,
pp. 112-113.
[Book Review]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Book Review: John Finlay, The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808 (EUP, 2012).
Eighteenth-Century Scotland(27),
pp. 32-33.
[Book Review]
Edited Books
Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Metzger, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Eds.)
(2012)
The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works.
Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow.
ISBN 9780956642318
Research Reports or Papers
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Gardham, Julie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-306X
(2017)
William Hunter's Library: a Transcription of the Early Catalogues: Transcription of Museum Records 1-3, Trustees Catalogues of Printed Books.
Catalogue.
University of Glasgow.
(Unpublished)
Conference or Workshop Item
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2022)
Borrowers in Space and Time: Beyond the Scottish Borrowing Registers.
33rd Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Liverpool, UK, 28-30 Jul 2022.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2022)
Two Advocates: William Dauney and John Hope at Chambers’ Circulating Library and the Advocates Library.
Books and Borrowing: Edinburgh’s 19th Century Readers, Edinburgh, Scotland, 27 Jun 2022.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Sangster, Matthew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813
(2022)
'D -- d Good': Glasgow University Library Books and their Borrowers in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond.
Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 07 Apr 2022.
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2016)
Two Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lawyers' Libraries: Lord Tinwald, Lord Alva, and Their Book Collections.
Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850, Dublin, Ireland, 25 Nov 2016.
(Unpublished)
Website
Halsey, Katie, Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Aitken, Brian, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457, Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine, Macfarlane, Isla, Smith, Josh and O'Callaghan Yeoman, Cleo
(2024)
Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers.
[Website]
Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Baston, Karen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Aitken, Brian
(2020)
Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2015)
Signet Library Session Papers Index Digitised.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2014)
The Universal Short Title Catalogue Database.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Scottish Legal History Group Conference, 2013.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Natural Law in Scotland, 1625-1850: Part of Natural Law, 1625-1850: An International Research Network.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
The British Legal History Conference, Glasgow, 10-13 July 2013.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2013)
Understanding the Scottish Practicks.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Roman Law Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh.
[Website]
Baston, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457
(2011)
Louisiana: The Legal History of Europe in a Single US State.
[Website]