Discovery Day – find your way round our digital primary sources TAGS: 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | Books | Britain | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Discovery Day | e-books | Europe | First World War | history | International Relations | journals | Letters | Magazines | Manuscripts | medieval | Newspapers | periodicals | Politics | primary source | social history | United States | World War Two Working on your dissertation and looking for primary source material? Looking to incorporate digitised primary sources into your teaching? Wanting to expand your research with digital resources? Or just have …Continue reading →

Spotlight on Gale Cengage digital primary sources TAGS: 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | Books | Britain | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Europe | First World War | gender studies | global history | history | International Relations | Magazines | Manuscripts | medieval | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | social history | Spotlight on | United States | World War Two 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 →

Spotlight on Adam Matthew digital primary sources TAGS: 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Asia | Britain | China | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Europe | First World War | gender studies | global history | history | India | International Relations | journals | Letters | Magazines | Manuscripts | medieval | Newspapers | periodicals | Politics | primary source | social history | Spotlight on | United States | World War Two 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 →

1066 and all that (by ‘that’ I mean Box of Broadcasts) TAGS: Anglo-Saxons | Archaeology | Battle of Hastings | history | medieval | Normans | William the Conqueror I’m sure all history lovers know today is the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Probably one of the most famous battles in England’s history, this led to the …Continue reading →

*New* Medieval Family Life TAGS: 15th century | databases | history | Letters | Manuscripts | medieval | War of the Roses The Library has recently purchased access to Medieval Family Life, a collection of letters and manuscripts from c1400-1490. Only five major letter collections exist from fifteenth century England and they …Continue reading →

Old Books, New Discoveries: The Tale of a Feather TAGS: Dutch | manuscript | medieval | music | rare books Our blog post today comes from History of the Book student and CRC volunteer Allie Newman. The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is home to over 300 …Continue reading →

Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →

Looking at the Acta Sanctorum – Life of St Cuthbert TAGS: church history | Funk | Latin | medieval | New College Library | online | rare books | saints | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh We welcomed University of Edinburgh MSc Medieval History students today for a tour of New College Library and the chance to see one of the texts they were studying, the …Continue reading →

Online resources for Byzantine research on trial now TAGS: Byzantine | church history | medieval | online | research | University of Edinburgh Two research resources for Byzantine history and culture are now on trial until 8 July for University of Edinburgh users. The Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online/Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine …Continue reading →