UK Press Online now on trial TAGS: Newspapers | online | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | war UK Press Online is now available on trial to University of Edinburgh users, accessible on campus or off campus via VPN via the eresources trials webpage. The trial ends on …Continue reading →

Walking with Angels? Exploring Death in Modern Scotland TAGS: angels | death | Divinity | images | nineteenth-century | online | Special Collections | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh There are still places available at the forthcoming conference on Death in Modern Scotland , 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices at the School of Divinity, New College Edinburgh, on 1-3 …Continue reading →

The Rescue that never was – remembering Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2013 TAGS: Church of England | Funk | Holocaust | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | war Holocaust Memorial Day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, and remembers those who died in the Holocaust and under Nazi persecution, and during subsequent genocides, …Continue reading →

The Hammond Organ in history TAGS: Funk | Hymnology | music | New College Library | Special Collections | twentieth-century Today, 11 January, is the anniversary of the birth of Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ. New College Library holds this pamphlet, The Hammond Organ, published in the 1930s,  in …Continue reading →

New on display – The Nativity in twentieth century art TAGS: art | Bible | Books | Christianity | Christmas | Funk | New College Library | twentieth-century New on display in New College Library’s Funk Special Collections Reading Room, is The Bible in 20th Century art.  It  is opened to show a painting of The Nativity by …Continue reading →

Keeping the faith in wartime TAGS: Church of Scotland | Funk | Pamphlets | Remembrance | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | war A short New College  Act of Remembrance will take place on Friday 9th November at 1pm at the War Memorial in the corridor leading to the Assembly Hall. This item …Continue reading →

Early twentieth-century Christianity in Korea TAGS: Christianity | Divinity | Korea | New College Library | Presbyterian | research | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity The School of Divinity’s World Christianity seminar series  continues with  “No Neutrality for Brutality”: The Missionary Position on Indigenous Resistance Movements in Colonial Korea, 1910-1919 by Han Kang-Hee. These two …Continue reading →

Happy Birthday New College Library TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Divinity | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh Seventy six years ago on the 8th of October, New College Library, Edinburgh, was formally opened to students and staff in its current building, the former Free High Kirk. The …Continue reading →

Christianity in the Far East? TAGS: Books | China | Christianity | Divinity | missions | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Tibet | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the School of Divinity hosts its Research Seminar today, and the speaker is Andrew Kaiser, on: ” Lessons for Today from …Continue reading →

Once in a blue moon? Surprises in the New College Library stacks … TAGS: astronomy | Books | cataloguing | library catalogue | New College Library | science | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh The 31st of August is scheduled for a ‘blue moon’ over Scotland. A blue moon traditionally occurs whenever two full moons happen in a single month – an unusual occurence, …Continue reading →