The Great Fire of Edinburgh, 1824 TAGS: 1824 | Great Fire of Edinburgh | William Home Lizars This year marks the bicentenary of one of the most destructive events in Edinburgh’s history, the ‘Great Fire’ of 15-21 November 1824. In this blog, Ash Mowat, a volunteer in …Continue reading →

John Augustus Bonney’s History of the Tower of London TAGS: John Augustus Bonney In this post, Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement Team, looks at a manuscript history of the Tower of London written by a political radical who was himself …Continue reading →

Alice’s Adventures in the Rare Book Stacks TAGS: Alice in Wonderland | book illustration | Children's stories | John Tenniell | Lewis Carroll | printing history Happy 150th anniversary of the second edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! (This week’s blog post has been contributed by Tess Goodman, a doctoral student in the Centre for the History …Continue reading →

The Greatest Gaelic Book Collector? Professor Donald MacKinnon (1839–1914), the University of Edinburgh, and the MacKinnon Collection TAGS: Book collecting | Crofters | Gaelic | Highlands | Professor of Celtic | Scotland We have recently completed the online cataloguing of the MacKinnon Collection, of books of and about Scottish life and literature, and rich in books in Gaelic.  Our colleague and expert …Continue reading →

Visualising the Scott Monument TAGS: Architecture | scott monument | walter scott In Semester 2 this year, we had a number of first-year architecture students visiting the CRC to research historic Edinburgh buildings. There have been enquiries about Old College, New College, and the National …Continue reading →