LGBT+ History Month: LGBT+ legal resources TAGS: databases | ebooks | heinonline | Legal databases | LGBTQ+ | library services | subject guide It’s LGBT+ History Month in February so we wanted to highlight some resources in our collection that are relevant to anyone looking at the history of LGBT+ rights. We recently …Continue reading →

Behind the Lens: LGBT+ History Month TAGS: Behind the Lens | film | Film Studies | LGBT+ History | LGBT+ History Month | LGBTQ+ studies | Queer cinema February is LGBT+ History Month and this year’s theme is #BehindThe Lens. This aims to celebrate “LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. Directors, cinematographers, screen …Continue reading →

‘Nothing is Here for Tears’: Helen Cruickshank Bids Farewell to F. Marian McNeill TAGS: F. Marian McNeill | Helen B. Cruickshank This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of folklorist F. Marian McNeill on 22 February 1973. Edinburgh University Library holds the manuscript of a memorial poem written by …Continue reading →

On trial: British Online Archives collections TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Archives | Black history | Britain | cultural history | databases | gender studies | history | Magazines | official documents | Politics | primary source | social history *The Library now has permanent access to Britannia and Eve, 1926-1957 and The Tatler, 1901-1965. You can access these either from Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources or the Databases …Continue reading →

William Drummond’s ‘Flowres of Sion’: A Unique Copy of a Major Work TAGS: William Drummond of Hawthornden This year marks the quatercentenary of the publication of Flowres of Sion (1623), an important volume by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), one of Scotland’s major 17th-century poets and one …Continue reading →

Digital Research Services: How we can support your research TAGS: DRS [This is a guest blog post by our new DRS Facilitator Sarah Janac. The Research Data Service is one of a number of digital research services at the University of …Continue reading →

Sounds of St Cecilia’s TAGS: High Quality Photography | Museums | musical instruments | St Cecilia's Hall   Recently I have had the joy of photographing a range of instruments from the collections at St Cecilia’s Hall . Over the last few years, staff at St Cecilia’s …Continue reading →