“Sorry, Foakes Jackson, I am for real”* TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | Judaism | railway history | research | William Fulton Jackson Our colleague, Patrick Murray, has begun work cataloguing the W. F. Jackson collection, initially, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Project. This collection has been at New College for many …Continue reading →

Cut it out! TAGS: Archives | Covenanters | Gaelic | Manuscripts | Presbyterian I have been making my way through the manuscripts collection in an effort to identify material, see what conservation needs there are and generally acquaint myself with the collections. This …Continue reading →

“You’ll never guess who I met today…” At the beginning of August I took on the role of New College Collections Curator looking after the archives held at New College Library and in the Centre for Studies …Continue reading →

J.H. Oldham (1874-1969) : Missionary and Ecumenical Pioneer TAGS: Archives | Christianity | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | missions | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | World Christianity Today, 16 May, is the anniversary of the death of J.H. Oldham. Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1874-1969) was a missionary and pioneer of ecumenism. The organising secretary for the 1910 World …Continue reading →

Happy Birthday New College Library TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Divinity | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh Seventy six years ago on the 8th of October, New College Library, Edinburgh, was formally opened to students and staff in its current building, the former Free High Kirk. The …Continue reading →

New College Library Archives TAGS: Alec Campbell Cheyne | Archives | Church of Scotland | Covenanters | Divinity | James Renwick | James Whyte | John McIntyre | New College Library | online | Thomas Chalmers | Tom Allan | University of Edinburgh Did you know that New College Library holds significant collections of archives and manuscripts? These  collections include the papers of Thomas Chalmers, J.H. Oldham, James S. Stewart and Norman W. …Continue reading →

How an Olympic champion became a missionary TAGS: Archives | Books | China | donations | missionary | missions | New College Library | Olympics | summer | University of Edinburgh The BBC Scotland programme Eric Liddell: A Champion’s Life http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lb63b  on BBC2 tonight (Monday 23rd July) at 10pm features items from University of Edinburgh Collections. New College Library recently received …Continue reading →

Medieval manuscript on display at New College Library … TAGS: Archives | medieval | New College Library | rare books | Special Collections Now on display at New College Library : the Athanasii Opuscula. This fifteenth century Italian medieval manuscript has a beautiful painted and gold tooled frontispiece and a neat humanistic script. In the …Continue reading →

Following in the footsteps of the New College Librarian TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Divinity | John Howard | Library | New College Edinburgh | New College Library Spent some time this morning sculling through the New College archives looking for correspondence about some of the New College Special Collections, the Dumfries Presbytery Library and the Longforgan Free …Continue reading →