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April 24, 2018
Trial access: Online Egyptological Bibliography and First World War primary sources TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | classics | databases | Egyptology | First World War | history | primary source | the Great War | World War I The Library currently has trial access to the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) from the University of Oxford and The First World War primary source database from Adam Matthew. You can …Continue reading →
The Battle of Jutland – 100 years on TAGS: Battle of Jutland | German Fleet | Grand Fleet | High Seas Fleet | My boy Jack | Navy | Rudyard Kipling | Scapa Flow | Sea Warfare | World War I | WW1 This week sees the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest and most important naval engagement of the First World War, and also a particularly Scottish event, as …Continue reading →
The Metamorphosis of Patrick Geddes
Work continues on re-cataloguing the Geddes family photographs. Working in such close proximity with these...
Living Icons: Keeping with the “Archival Liveness” of the University’s Iconic Items
As the other blog posts that I have written for the DIU will attest to,...
Problem Photographs in the Patrick Geddes Collection
This week’s blog comes from Project Conservator, Nicole Devereux, who has come across a sticky...
Store Room Surprises!
Project Conservator, Helen Baguley, describes some of the more unusual objects she has found in...
