Library & University Collections Journal Club 2019-20 Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Library & University Collections Journal Club meetings in 2019. We’ve now planned a further programme of dates for the 2019/20 academic …Continue reading →

Baltic, Books and Solidarity: Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) International Staff Week I was delighted to be able to participate in the 4th International Staff Week at the Biblioteki Politechniki Gdańskiej recently. I work as the Senior Photographer for Edinburgh University’s Library …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive Statistics: May 2019 TAGS: downloads | edinburgh research archive | May 2019 June 2019

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: May 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | May 2019

‘This Single Song of Two’: Centenary of the Marriage of Edwin and Willa Muir TAGS: Edwin Muir | George Mackay Brown | Willa Muir 7 June 2019 marks the centenary of the marriage of Edwin and Willa Muir, one of Scottish literature’s great creative partnerships. Acclaimed in their own right as poet and novelist …Continue reading →

Normandy landings: through our digital primary sources TAGS: 20th century | Allies | Archives | Britain | Canada | correspondence | D-Day | databases | diaries | Europe | film | France | Germany | history | International Relations | Newspapers | Normandy | official documents | Politics | primary source | TV | United States | World War Two On this day, 6 June, 75 years ago the Normandy landings took place. This was part of a major combined naval, air and land assault on German-occupied France by Allied …Continue reading →

On trial: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 – 1974 TAGS: 20th century | Archives | Black history | cultural history | databases | history | Politics | primary source | social history | United States *The Library has access to The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 until 31st July 2024 as part of ProQuest Access 350.* Thanks to a request from a HCA …Continue reading →

Times Higher Education update TAGS: THE | Times Higher Education Following a successful first year of a subscription to Times Higher Education Online, we have now renewed it for a further year. Existing subscribers should have received an alert from …Continue reading →

An intern’s first impressions Archive cataloguing project intern, Sorina Mihai, relays her first impressions from her busy first two weeks with our ‘Evergreen: Patrick Geddes and the Environment and Equilibrium’ project.  With a jam-packed …Continue reading →

From Barbed Wire to the BBC: The Writings of Tom Burns TAGS: behaviour | Communication | suburbia | town planning | urban | workplace Introduction Throughout his career as researcher, lecturer and finally Professor of Sociology, Tom Burns was a prolific and engaging writer of journal articles, lectures, conference papers and reviews. His works …Continue reading →