A Murder in the Archives TAGS: Alexander Guthrie | Clement Litill | David Rizzio | gifts | Mary Queen of Scots | murder | Reformation It began as a simple cataloguing exercise.  I noticed that a significant document in University of Edinburgh’s history had no representation in our online catalogue and set out to remedy …Continue reading →

John MacLeod Durward, Queen’s Scholar TAGS: Church of Scotland Training College | John Macleod Durward | teacher training Enquiries are very much central to what we do.  As well as helping others with their own research, enquiries are often the means by which we learn something new about …Continue reading →

Impact of the War on the University and the Art College TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | education | First World War | university | University of Edinburgh The following was written by Gillian McDonald, a MSc Scottish Studies intern, who spent some time in early 2013 looking at selected items in the archives of the two institutions …Continue reading →

Riddle’s Court, a Discovery With our this project currently in progress, our eyes and ears are particularly attuned to Patrick Geddes material elsewhere in our collections.  It was a delight recently to stumble across …Continue reading →

Edinburgh University Students in Spain TAGS: alumni | Spanish Civil War | students It is 80 years since the Spanish Civil War broke out.  Unlike both World Wars, we have no record of University of Edinburgh students who fought (and died) in Spain …Continue reading →

Roll of the Fallen We are pleased to announce that the University’s Roll of the Fallen for the First World War is now searchable online. The Roll of Honour was originally published in 1921, …Continue reading →

James Miranda Steuart Barry and the Crimean War TAGS: alumni | crimea | James Barry | war We recently became aware of a single letter from James Miranda Barry, written just before departure for Sebastopol shortly after its capture by the ‘allies’ in 1855. We acquired it …Continue reading →

Playfair Revealed The architect William Henry Playfair was born in Russell Square, London, July 1789. On the death of his father, Playfair was sent to reside with his uncle in Edinburgh. Professor …Continue reading →

William Henry Playfair, architect On 2 Nov 2015, the CRC hosted a seminar which looked at the figure of William Henry Playfair (1790-1857), discussing his life and work and looking in some detail at …Continue reading →

The Music of Archives For the past few years, we have had one of our volunteers, Fiona Donaldson, working with Deputy University Archivist, Grant Buttars, to develop a usable catalogue to our Tovey Collection, …Continue reading →