Ideas in Motion: Mapping Lyell’s Transatlantic Lectures As part of our goal to ‘create a complete, comprehensive, and enhanced online catalogue,’ one series emerged as particularly in need of attention: ‘Lectures.’ Lyell Intern Claire Bottoms took on …Continue reading →

Tackling Lyell’s Specimens with Lizzie (& Vernon’s) help! Using funding awarded by the Institute of Sedimentologists, Lizzie Freestone worked during the Summer of 2024 as the Charles Lyell Web Development Intern. Read on to learn all about her …Continue reading →

Exploring Scotland, Uncovering America: Enriching Lyell’s Legacy Thank you to guest blogger, Andrea Edwards, who shares her experience of spending the ‘summer’ working on the Charles Lyell correspondence… Hi! My name is Andrea Edwards. I am an …Continue reading →

Celebrating Success: Lyell’s Offprint Collection Fully Documented Hello, we are interns Claire and Harriet, who have now been working for 5 months on Charles Lyell’s Offprint collection held by Heritage Collections. In our first blog post, we …Continue reading →

Recreating Connections: Exploring Charles Lyell’s Offprint Collection An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. Offprints are used …Continue reading →

Charles Lyell’s archaeological specimens at the University of Edinburgh Will Adams completed his MA Archaeology dissertation at the University of Edinburgh Summer 2023 looking at Lyell’s archaeological specimens – achieving an impressive 78% and winning an award to boot! …Continue reading →

Charles Lyell’s Books In his Scientific Notebook 1, dated March – April 1825, Charles Lyell lists things to take on his first geological tour, designed to gather the evidence for his first book. In …Continue reading →

Working with Charles Lyell – a call for papers Two-day workshop, 8-9 February 2024, University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS Contributions are invited to a two-day workshop on the life and work of the leading geologist and natural scientist …Continue reading →

Time Traveller: Charles Lyell at Work Free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery (ground floor), Open from 27th October 2023 – 30th March 2024, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm  Over the last few months, …Continue reading →

Lyell’s Islands We’ve been lucky to have had Harriet Mack, who is heading into her 3rd Year of a joint honours degree in Archaeology and Classics working with us as our Lyell …Continue reading →