Wartime service honours of Dr William Aldren Turner (1864-1945)… Devised a management strategy for shell shock… Honoured by Belgium and Britain TAGS: Belgium | British Red Cross | King Albert Medal | OBE | Shell shock | William Aldren Turner EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENT… SERVED WITH ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL  CORPS (RAMC)… BECAME ADVISOR ON ‘WAR NEUROSIS’ AND SHELL SHOCK TO THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE… William Aldren Turner was born in …Continue reading →

‘Efforts are Successes’: Dunfermline College of Physical Education and the 1928 Olympic Games TAGS: Archives | Olympics Our collections celebrate and often reflect people’s excellence, endeavour and achievement  and being in the throws of Olympic achievements we’ve looked at the Dunfermline College of Physical Education archives to …Continue reading →

Breaking Boundaries – videos now online TAGS: #RDMRMA A few months ago we hosted the ‘Breaking Boundaries‘ event, examining the subject of research data through the eyes of the archives, records management, and research data management communities. If …Continue reading →

Students PC’s Deep Clean Please note PC’s and Key Boards within the Ground, 1st and 2nd Floors will undergo a deep clean from Monday 15th August. The contractors  will start from the 2nd floor …Continue reading →

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – Update 9th August  Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and providing …Continue reading →

Learning Scottish Gaelic online? The Library has purchased an e-book version, with an audio file, of Colloquial Scottish Gaelic published in August 2015. The e-book can be accessed via the Library’s DiscoverEd, or click here. …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Academic Video Online TAGS: anthropology | databases | documentary | film | gender studies | history | International Relations | media | news | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology | Sociology | video The Library has recently purchased access to the large and comprehensive online streaming video resource Academic Video Online from Alexander Street Press. Covering a wide range of subject areas, students …Continue reading →

What The Copibook Saw TAGS: 1850's | 1910's | 1960's | Copibook | digitisation | Edinburgh | PhD | time-lapse | youtube

Cinema at the whaling-stations, South Georgia…: another brief look into the Salvesen Archive TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive ‘…Each man takes a turn to keep the building in a proper state of cleanliness…’ This look at cinema and film offered to the personnel of the whaling stations in …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Samos archaeological reports TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Books | classics | Mediterranean Further to a request from staff in HCA the Library is currently in the process of trying to purchase a copy of all available volumes of the Samos series of archaeological reports …Continue reading →