New to the Library: Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | classics | e-books | Greece | Hellenistic period | history | Rome I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome from Oxford Reference Online. This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive …Continue reading →

New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Ancient history | Archaeology | Asia | Black history | Books | Britain | China | classics | cultural history | e-books | Europe | film | history | India | medieval | Politics | social history | United States | World War Two Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small …Continue reading →

Spotlight on our Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Archives | Asia | Books | Britain | Centre for Research Collections | correspondence | cultural history | Europe | history | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | medieval | primary source | rare books | social history | Special Collections | Spotlight on | United States | University of Edinburgh On Tuesday 30th January we’ll be holding a Discovery Day event in the Main Library where representatives from 3 publishers of digitised primary source collections and our very own Centre …Continue reading →

New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Britain | classics | cultural history | e-books | Egyptology | Europe | greek | history | India | International Relations | medieval | Politics | social history | United States Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small …Continue reading →

Student Research Rooms: fantastic resource for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Books | classics | history | Old Medical School | study space | William Robertson Wing Today’s blog post is a guest post from Aimee Fletcher, SRR Co-ordinator, about the superb book collections available to staff and students from HCA in the Student Research Rooms (SRR). …Continue reading →

How to…read your reading list and search for readings in the Library TAGS: Archaeology | Books | classics | DiscoverEd | e-books | e-journals | history | journals Got your reading list but not sure what you’re being asked to read (is it a book, is it an article, is it a bird, is it a plane…)? Or …Continue reading →

New to Library: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society archive online TAGS: Archaeology | e-journals | history | prehistory The Library has recently purchased the online archive to the journal Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, covering the period 1935 (volume 1) until 2009 (volume 75). The Library already has …Continue reading →

New E-Books from Cambridge Core TAGS: American Literature | Archaeology | art | astronomy | British History | Classical Studies | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Film media mass communication | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | mathematics | media | Medicine | music | Philosophy | Physics | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Sociology | Statistics and Probability A further 253 e-books across most subject areas have been added to DiscoverEd.  Cambridge Core hosts books from a variety of publishers including Edinburgh University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell …Continue reading →

New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Books | classics | e-books | history Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small …Continue reading →

New journals available for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | classics | e-journals | Greece | history | journals | Latin | Philosophy The Library has recently started subscriptions to 3 new journals following requests from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. So welcome to the Library… Journal of Greek Archaeology This …Continue reading →