Isla H. Macfarlane

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☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.

Innerpeffray library visitors' book entry dated 26/3/26, signed by Isla Macfarlane and baby Ramsay
Photographic excerpt from Innerpeffray Library Visitors' Book Volume 1, f.186v (21 & 22/07/1897), highlighting two 'baby' visitors: Baby Willie George Herbinson and Baby Betty Dunlop.
A powerpoint slide with colourful clouds as a background, entitled 'Returning from Maternity Leave'. Text includes: "Hi future-Isla, it's 2025-Isla here to say, you can do this!" and "Hi baby!!"
Photo showing the spines of 9 editions of Murray's Handbook for Scotland travel guides: 1867, 1868, 1873, 1875, 1883, 1894, 1898, 1903, 1913.
Screenshot of the Brooks Falls livestream, showing 128 Grazer standing in the river and her very fluffy yearling cub 128jr looking at the camera.
Screenshot of an email from Academia with the subject line "An AI wrote a review of your paper"
Section of p.54 from Nelson's 'An Essay on the Government of Children' (1753), covering "Hunger, Fatigue, and Fretting" during breastfeeding.
Title page of Dr James Nelson's 'An Essay on the Government of Children' (1753)
Extract from Innerpeffray Library Visitors' Book Volume 1, f.22v, showing the signatures of The Revd. A. M. Gibson, Minister of Portsoy, and "Mrs" Gibson.
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)
Photo of a library display titled 'Mental Wellbeing', with all shelves totally empty.
A photo of Isla wearing a red dress and showing off her baby bump, sitting on a bench in front of the sea and mountains.
Sign reading 'Biblioteca Francescana: Francescan Library'
Screenshot showing a red wiggly line under the word "Neurodivergent" - suggesting "Neuroscientist" instead.
Title presentation slide: 'Personal Reflections of a Neurodivergent Supervisor and Academic'
A ginger cat wearing a Santa hat.
Excerpt from 1871 Census, showing Robert Scarlett and Mary Augusta Grignon. Robert's occupation is written as "Clergyman of the Church of England without care of souls".
A christmas tree in a bookshop with lots of labels hanging from it.
Newspaper article titled 'Death of a Crimean Sultana | Her Connections with Cambusbarron' from the 'Callander Advertiser', 10/08/1912, p.2
Display of books at a public library titled 'Purrrrrrfect Winter Reads' and filled with books about cats.
Kindle ereader charging with an oven glove strategically placed on the charging cable.
Newspaper announcement describing the appointment of Fergus David Ferguson as bank agent of the Clydesdale Bank in Falkirk. (Linlithgowshire Gazette, 02/01/1897, p.6)
Photograph from the Innerpeffray Visitors' Book, 23/07/1879, showing the signature of Margaret H. Pagan, Rockclyffe, Crieff (Innerpeffray Visitors' Book Volume 1, f.43r.)
Photograph from Innerpeffray Visitors' Book, 31/08/1874, showing the signature of M. H. Pagan (Margaret Helen), Crieff (Innerpeffray Visitors' Book Volume 1, f.28v.)
Photograph of the Innerpeffray Visitors' Book, 30/07/1862, showing the signatures of James Ferguson, Manchester, Master Fergus David Ferguson, Calcutta, and Annie Biggar Black, Edinburgh. (Innerpeffray Visitors' Book Volume 1, f.8v.)
Excerpt from newspaper entitled 'Births, Marriages, and Deaths': 'Marriages': "At Crieff, on the 27th inst., by the Rev. John Cunningham, D.D., Fergus D. Ferguson, 7, Seton Place, Edinburgh, to Margaret Helen, daughter of Allan Cunningham Pagan, Esq. of Rockclyffe, Crieff." (The Reporter, Stirling, 30/04/1881).
Extract from a newspaper article entitled 'Crieff Botanical Field Club' (The Crieff Journal, 22/08/1879), discussing the club's recent visit to Glenturret.
Full length black and white portrait of Miss Constance Penruddocke, c.1916-1918 (Australian War Memorial)
Two cats (ginger on the left, black on the right) sitting on chairs with library-themed cushions.
Isla leading a road safety storytelling session at Corstorphine Library, Edinburgh.
Spread from an early Bible, showing bird footprints across the page. (M. Coverdale, W. Tyndale, J. Rogers (1537) University of Glasgow Sp Coll Bk8-e.11)
Spread from Innerpeffray Library Visitors' Books, July - August 1880 (Innerpeffray Library Visitors' Books Volume 1, ff.47v-48r)
Large poster for the British Library exhibition: Medieval Women in their own words.