Responding to a National Crisis: Social Work at Times of Great Need (illustrated with images from the University’s art collection) We find ourselves living through remarkable times. A global pandemic has taken hold and life has changed completely in just a few …Continue reading →

High Rises and Lows: Emotions in an Edinburgh Suburb TAGS: community | Edinburgh | emotion | family | Housing | neighbours In 1957 three professionals, a GP, a minister and a headteacher, approached the University of Edinburgh’s Social Science Research Centre requesting a study of the North Edinburgh communities in which …Continue reading →

Diamonds and Rust: Re-housing the Student Records One of the largest components of the Department of Social Work’s archive is a collection of over 1000 student admission files from 1928, when the school was transferred to the …Continue reading →

The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training Foundations: Social work training at the University of Edinburgh has gone through several guises since it was first taught in 1918.  Initially it was established as the Edinburgh School of …Continue reading →

From Barbed Wire to the BBC: The Writings of Tom Burns TAGS: behaviour | Communication | suburbia | town planning | urban | workplace Introduction Throughout his career as researcher, lecturer and finally Professor of Sociology, Tom Burns was a prolific and engaging writer of journal articles, lectures, conference papers and reviews. His works …Continue reading →

A New Profession TAGS: Archives | Social Work | students From 1 October 1928 The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training, established in 1918, was to be incorporated into the University. Students at the school had been entitled to …Continue reading →

Cataloguing the correspondence of Thomas Nelson & Sons TAGS: Archives | students Cataloguing the correspondence of Thomas Nelson & Sons Last January, our intern Isabella started a 10-week placement at the CRC, as part of her MSc in Book History and Material …Continue reading →

Who You Gonna Call? (Dustbusters!) TAGS: museum vacuum cleaners | surface cleaning | University Collection Facility This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants, Anna O’Regan and Stephanie Allen, who assisted the Museum Collections Team with a large scale move of artworks by Edinburgh College of Art …Continue reading →

My Royal Mile TAGS: Collections rationalisation project | conservation | University Collections Facility This week, we have our final blog from Project Conservator, Helen Baguley, who has been working with us for the past 18 months on the Collections Rationalisation Project… The Royal …Continue reading →

Re-discovering a forgotten songwriter: the archive of Louisa Matilda Crawford TAGS: Archives Re-discovering a forgotten songwriter: the archive of Louisa Matilda Crawford. Daisy Stafford, CRC intern who catalogued the papers of Louisa Matilda Crawford, talks about her experience. This summer I was …Continue reading →