MIMEd abroad! Two members of the MIMEd staff travel to Boston to spread the news about the SCH redevelopment.   In June, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet and Sarah Deters travelled to Boston to attend the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) Conference, hosted by the …Continue reading →

School’s in for Summer! TAGS: Moray House Arvchive | Textile conservation | workshops At the beginning of June I began working with the Moray House Archive at the CRC. It’s been a fantastic collection to work with, as every box I have opened …Continue reading →

LUNA 7 goes live! Our imaging platform (http://images.is.ed.ac.uk) has been given a keenly-awaited revamp with the upgrade to the LUNA 7 software. Those of you that are familiar with the old version may not …Continue reading →

A Life Cut Short: Stephanie’s Story TAGS: alumni | Medicine | students | Women In 1936, Julia Stephanie Evadne McGregor was in the final year of a five-year medical degree and showed all the signs of a highly motivated and conscientious student who would …Continue reading →

Bohemian Protest on Display To commemorate the 600th anniversary of the death of Church reformer Jan Hus (d.1415), the Centre for Research Collections is currently displaying the Bohemian Protest, a document surrounded by the …Continue reading →

200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo – 18 June 2015 TAGS: Battle of Waterloo | Dr. John Thomson | Henry Aston Barker | J. Burnet THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO REFLECTED IN OUR ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS On Sunday 18 June 1815, on the muddy fields of Waterloo just outside Brussels in today’s Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte with his …Continue reading →

Old Books, New Discoveries: The Tale of a Feather TAGS: Dutch | manuscript | medieval | music | rare books Our blog post today comes from History of the Book student and CRC volunteer Allie Newman. The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is home to over 300 …Continue reading →

Oldest thesis record in the British Library’s e-thesis online service (EThOS) TAGS: Thomas Charles Hope Over the last few weeks and months we’ve been adding a lot of digitised material from our historical collections to the Edinburgh Research Archive. One of the collections that has …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 →

Edinburgh University Union Committee, 1899 TAGS: alumni | staff We recently acquired this photograph.  It shows the committee which had responsibility for running the University Union, one comprised of both staff and students. We have researched each of the …Continue reading →