Home Front – Theatrical group – ‘The Eves’, 1916-1917 AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA TELLS THEIR STORY For the war effort, various Home Front groups and organisations produced entertainments to raise funds for the Red Cross and other …Continue reading →

Talk given to Members of the South Georgia Association – on the Salvesen Archive TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive AT THE BUDONGO LECTURE THEATRE, EDINBURGH ZOO, SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 This past weekend – Saturday 31 October – saw Dr. Graeme D. Eddie of the Centre for Research Collections …Continue reading →

Maritime difficulties during the First World War – Christian Salvesen & Co. TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | merchant ships | South Georgia SINKINGS AND LOSS OF LIFE, SHORTAGES OF SUPPLY, AND REQUISITIONING… DIFFICULTIES FACED BY THE FIRM OF CHRISTIAN SALVESEN & CO. DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Contemporary papers within the archive …Continue reading →

Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961), craftsman, artist 140th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH THE EVE OF SAINT AGNES – RECENT ACQUISITION AT CENTRE FOR RESEARCH COLLECTIONS, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Saturday 10 October 2015 marks the 140th anniversary of …Continue reading →

Papers of Dr. Jacobus L. Potter & Dr. Elizabeth M. Potter TAGS: Elizabeth Mackay Potter (1924-1979) | Jacobus Louw Potter (1924-2015) | physicians THEIR BIRTHS IN NOVEMBER 1924 WERE ANNOUNCED IN THE SCOTSMAN ON THE SAME DAY… AFTER CAREERS IN THE USA, JACOBUS LOUW POTTER BECAME EXECUTIVE DEAN, FACULTY OF MEDICINE, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, …Continue reading →

MacDiarmid and ‘Nisbet: An interlude in post-war Glasgow’ TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | Scottish Literary Papers II – IN THE HUGH MACDIARMID COLLECTION…: MS LETTER FROM THE PROJECT THEATRE, GLASGOW… NEW PLAYS ‘PROJECT’ NEW IDEAS Among the many letters to Hugh MacDiarmid from producers and directors  …Continue reading →

Dylan Thomas poem in ms: ‘In memory of Anne Jones’ I – IN THE HUGH MACDIARMID COLLECTION…: MS LETTER FROM DYLAN THOMAS AND MS POEM For several months work has been going on to bring order within the collections created …Continue reading →

Hawick and Roxburghshire, February 1915: On a war footing… TAGS: Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) | Hawick Express and Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette | K.O.S.B. | Rosebery Bantam Battalion THE HAWICK EXPRESS & ADVERTISER AND ROXBURGHSHIRE GAZETTE, 5 FEBRUARY 1915 Known by other earlier titles, the Hawick Express and Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette would later on become absorbed by …Continue reading →

200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo – 18 June 2015 TAGS: Battle of Waterloo | Dr. John Thomson | Henry Aston Barker | J. Burnet THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO REFLECTED IN OUR ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS On Sunday 18 June 1815, on the muddy fields of Waterloo just outside Brussels in today’s Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte with his …Continue reading →

William Hunter (1861-1937) & the Order of St. Sava TAGS: Order of St. Sava | William Hunter (1861-1937) EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS SERVED IN SERBIA IN CHARGE OF A MEDICAL MISSION AND EARNED THE ORDER OF ST. SAVA, ONE OF SERBIA’S HIGHEST HONOURS During the First World War, and …Continue reading →