The Battle of Life: A look at the Dumfriesshire mental health survey TAGS: Dumfries | mental health | Scotland “worried, dull and anxious, not quite up to the battle of life.” Widowed female, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward As the second world war was coming to an end a …Continue reading →

Meet your Westlaw Student Representative! TAGS: databases | information skills | Legal databases | Training | westlaw We often receive requests from students for help with databases, but did you know that there’s a student specialist who can help you with all things Westlaw? Sofia Renshaw is …Continue reading →

Referencing and Beyond Reading Lists TAGS: informationskills | library training | mediahopper | OSCOLA | reading list | Referencing | research | videos Last week the Law Librarians held a Referencing training session- focussing on OSCOLA! If you didn’t get a chance to come along then don’t worry as we will be uploading …Continue reading →

How to DataShare TAGS: DataShare | videos The latest in our series of Research Data Service ‘how-to’ videos provides guidance and handy hints on making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) by depositing in Edinburgh DataShare, …Continue reading →

From the Stores #3: Notebook No. 13 This week I spent some time working with the following notebook, No. 13, which Charles Lyell kept during his tour in southern France in 1828. This tour was originally started …Continue reading →

The Shakespeare’s Collection – new resources from Gale Several new resources have been added to Archives Unbound, a key primary source database from Gale. Among these is The Shakespeare Collection. The Shakespeare Collection The Collection contextualizes the legacy …Continue reading →

From the Stores #2: Gideon Mantell This week in the stores, I began to delve into the box lists which describe the new-to-us collection of further papers of Charles Lyell and the family which was received …Continue reading →

The Law Library, Old College TAGS: helpdesk | law library | library services | old college | update Have you visited the Law Library this year? This is a really unusual year for staff and students at Edinburgh and it can be disconcerting not knowing which facilities are …Continue reading →

The Scotichronicon and the Goblin Ha’ – witchcraft and hobgoblins in our manuscripts! TAGS: Archives In popular culture, archives sometimes have a cryptic reputation: if some filmmakers were to be believed, in the middle of dust and darkness would rest ancient manuscripts and parchments containing …Continue reading →

From the Stores #1: Packing List for Fieldwork Progress in the Lyell project has taken a giant leap these last two weeks thanks to two developments. Firstly, physical work in the stores where the collection is secured at …Continue reading →