Library of Innerpeffray

If you're on the lookout for other snowdrops to admire, Branklyn Garden in Perth is open this weekend for their annual Snowdrop Festival. Our beautiful snowdrop sculpture, created by expert guide Gillean Ford, will be on display at Branklyn for the festival.

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At weekends, our Schoolroom is open where you can enjoy a warming tea or coffee, and browse a sale of second-hand books.

Even in this grey February, our drifts of snowdrops are are a welcome sign of Spring approaching. Our season for tours begins on 1 March, but our grounds are always open, so do come for a walk to enjoy this glorious sight.

If you're coming to Carols in the Chapel on Sun 7 Dec, why not pop into our shop for a browse? The shop will be open before & after the concert. Check out our new Book Bauble Kits.

***Please note, the Carols concert is now SOLD OUT - sorry to anyone who may have missed out on tickets this time***

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Poster for Coffee Morning

☕️ Coffee Morning in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
🗓️ Saturday 7 December
🕙 10am-12 noon
⛪️ Dunblane Cathedral Hall
💷 Entry £3
🧁 Home baking, raffle, book stall & gift ideas for Christmas
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If this looks like the sort of thing you and/or the small people in your life might enjoy, come along to our half-term events: museum trail, crafting, storytelling, that sort of thing. history.rcp.ac.uk/events

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

Christmas Cards - Festive Boughs - Innerpeffray Library A delightful pack of six cards, featuring plates from The North American Sylva (Michaux & Nutall, 1859). The Holly and the Hemlock Spruce are two trees which grow in the grounds of Innerpeffray Librar...

We are very pleased with our new festive cards, and had an inordinate amount of fun on this glorious day doing a photoshoot in the grounds of the Library! They'll be at our Festive Fayre on Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov and you can order them in our online shop here:
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a circle with text handwritten inside.

Nearly the end of our season and we're having two special Tours with the Keeper tomorrow: find out all about our Bookmarking exhibition before it closes at the end of the month. Tickets here: innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk
Online booking closes at midnight tonight.

Coming up at Innerpeffray we have our closing talk of the season, the Ted Powell Memorial Lecture on Wed 8th October.

Members of the Friends of Innerpeffray can attend for free, but please book your place! Tickets for non-members £10, book here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/whats-on/

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Buchan, we are reading excerpts of his most famous book, The Thirty Nine Steps at 1100 BST LIVE on YouTube www.youtube.com/@Innerpeffra... join us if you can.

At our Festival, author & musician L.A.MacRae will be talking to us abouther debut novel. Hosted by our assistant keeper and trad singer Naomi, expect a weaving of music & readings and the explorations of a writer.
Sat 6th Sept 15.30. innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

Next up in our festival programme is a unique opportunity to hear celebrated playwright, theatre director and author David Greig. On the afternoon of Sat 6 Sept, he'll be sharing insights about the writing of his debut novel, 'Columba's Bones'.
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We are very excited to be welcoming 'Things Found in Books' to our festival! Join singer-songwriters Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine to hear their songs inspired by things found in old books.
Tickets £15, Saturday 6th September 7pm. Bookings and enquiries here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/innerpeffray...

If Books Could Kill! This year at Innerpeffray we discovered that we have some poisonous books in our collection. Join our poet in residence Jennie Turnbull on Friday 5th September for a creative foray into the power of the written word.

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Hooray! We're having a festival!

The Innerpeffray Festival returns for 2025 from Friday 5-Sunday 7 Sept. Check out our website for a programme of poetry, workshops, fiction, readings and music - inspired by the marks we make in books. The festival is sponsored by the Friends of Innerpeffray.

We're looking forward to our Summer Fayre next Friday and Saturday!
Local craftspeople, refreshments and lots of secondhand #books

Beatrix Potter at Innerpeffray - Innerpeffray Library As it is the 155th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth on the 28th July 2021, we are celebrating by exploring some of the links between Beatrix Potter and the Library of Innerpeffray. Helen Beatrix ...

John Everett Millais was a friend of Rupert Potter, father of Beatrix, and they both enjoyed visiting Scotland. The Potters visited Innerpeffray in 1868 and you can read more in @bibliophisla.bsky.social blog innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/beatrix-pott...

Two books sitting on a cushion, one open at a painting entitled The Order of Release, showing a kilted man in the arms of a woman. Painting by John Everett Millais. Closed book shows title of book the Life and Letters of Mr John Everett Millais.

Two books sitting on a cushion, one open at picture of a painting entitled The Royalist: a woman holds the hand of a man hiding in a tree. Painting by John Everett Millais. Closed book shows title of book the Life and Letters of Mr John Everett Millais.

Prompted us to have a look at this copy of The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, by his son, 1899

Millais Collection Finds a Home at Perth Art Gallery - Culture Perth & Kinross A private collection of rarely-seen artworks and personal belongings of celebrated Victorian painter John Everett Millais and his Perth-born

Fantastic news At Perth Art Gallery, unseen treasures of #Millais from the family collection now on long term loan
www.culturepk.org.uk/news/millais...

thank you! 👋

Three people stand over a historic book, open on a book pillow. Two of them are pointing to a passage on the page, while one reads out the text. The sun shines on the person in the middle.

Did you know Scotland's first free public lending library is nearly 350 years old? 🤔

Innerpeffray Library in rural Perthshire has welcomed readers from all walks of life since 1680, when it was founded by local landowner David Drummond, the third Lord Madertie.

woodcut image of sun with face and 16 rays radiating from centre.

Where better to cool off on a sunny day than an 18th century building with *very* thick walls! #cool

*SOLD OUT* We are both excited and sorry (for anyone who has missed out) that we have reached capacity for our event this evening. See other dates for the Three Inch Fools here: www.threeinchfools.com/upcoming-per...

*SOLD OUT* Sorry, we have reached capacity for our event this evening. If you've missed out, see other dates for the Three Inch Fools here: www.threeinchfools.com/upcoming-per...

Our next event is the fabulous frolic of the Three Inch Fools outdoor Shakespeare with music and madness!
Thurs 10th July at 7pm Book here: innerpeffray-library.arttickets.org.uk/innerpeffray...

A musical event with a difference later this month at Innerpeffray - Viola da Gamba player Sarah Small is cycling the length and breadth of the UK, performing a programme of music from the 17th cent to today.
Tickets £15, book via the 'What's On' page on our website, link in bio.

Cheeky! unless it was his mother in the VB?

Section of a visitors' book page from Innerpeffray Library, showing the signatures of E. F. Harvey, Constance Bardsley, and Doris Bardsley, all from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. (Library of Innerpeffray Visitors' Book Volume 4, f.106v)

Excerpt from a newspaper article published in The Central Queensland Herald, Queensland, 04/11/1937, titled "Miss C. Bardsley | Impressions of World Tour"

Further extract from newspaper article, "Miss C. Bardsley | Impressions of World Tour", The Central Queensland Herald, 04/11/1937. This section mentions that Bardsley visited Innerpeffray, "the oldest free library in the world."

I just stumbled across an old article in The Central Queensland Herald, Australia, by an international visitor to @innerpeffray.bsky.social - Miss Constance Bardsley visited Innerpeffray with 2 others on 1st July, 1937. On her return home, she wrote about her 6-month world tour in her local paper.