I: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – its early issues and ambition TAGS: The Times History and Encyclopædia of the War ‘…AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONTEST NOW IN PROGRESS…’ Printed and published by The Times newspaper, The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War was a British weekly periodical first …Continue reading →

Planning for the REF at Surrey: a visit from the LOCH project The REF Open Access Planning workshop, which took place in Manchester in December 2015, was oversubscribed. This was quite disappointing for many of us who were in the process of …Continue reading →

New Furniture Arriving We are almost there – thanks for your continued patience!  New furniture for the 358 additional study spaces will start to arrive next week – please see below for details. …Continue reading →

Conservation Placement – Northumbria University TAGS: float mounting | indian paintings | Northumbria University | tasawir | v-hinge Lisa Mitchell, conservation placement student from Northumbria University, describes her experience of working at the CRC in this week’s blog post… Over the past two weeks I have had the …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Nineteenth Century Collections Online TAGS: 19th century | databases | history | Politics | primary source | social history Over the summer the Library was able to purchase the British Politics and Society collection, part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) from Gale Cengage. This is a major new …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Africa-Wide Information TAGS: African Studies | anthropology | databases | history | literature searching | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology I’m pleased to let you know that after a successful trial earlier this year the Library has now subscribed to Africa-Wide Information from EBSCOhost. Bringing together 50 databases sourced from Africa, …Continue reading →

Alice’s Adventures in the Rare Book Stacks TAGS: Alice in Wonderland | book illustration | Children's stories | John Tenniell | Lewis Carroll | printing history Happy 150th anniversary of the second edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! (This week’s blog post has been contributed by Tess Goodman, a doctoral student in the Centre for the History …Continue reading →

Textiles and threads – samples and catalogue TAGS: China | japan | silk | textiles ANOTHER SPLASH OF COLOUR FOR THE COLLECTIONS – FROM EUROPE, CHINA AND JAPAN Towards the end of the 2015-2016 financial period, CRC acquired a small number of items relating to …Continue reading →

Destructive scanning of duplicate theses TAGS: destructive | digitisation | Kodak | Theses Hello, I’m Pete Marsden one of the digitisation assistants working out at the Gyle in West Edinburgh, and this is what I get up to…….. Here is a sneak peek …Continue reading →

Evening Floor Closures As part of the ongoing electrical enabling works to accommodate the new study desks as part of the library refurbishment works, our contractors have scheduled a series of essential power …Continue reading →