Festival Concerts We are looking forward to the last Festival before we close for redevelopment, and the fantastic series of concerts being organised by the Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall. We have …Continue reading →

Fairytales & Chivalry at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: CRC | Fairytales | rare books | Special Collections When I think of our rare book collections, I tend to think or row upon row of brown, leather bound volumes. This is true for a large part of the …Continue reading →

Centre for the Study of World Christianity Update TAGS: andrew walls | Annexe | Catalogue | Christianity | CSWC | Library Annexe | new college | Projects | University of Edinburgh With the print collections of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity (CSWC) Library, set up by Professor Andrew F. Walls, now having been in our care at the …Continue reading →

Pipe bombs, hurt sternframes, peas, penguins, stowaways and cookery books: the Salvesen Archive TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive After the recent BBC whaling documentary produced by KeoFilms / KeoNorth– entitled ‘Britain’s whale hunters: the untold story’ – a spike in enquiries about the archive of the former whaling …Continue reading →

A Famous Economist and His Library Collection Jamie, our Marketing and Outreach Intern, gives an update on his progress. I have passed the halfway point of my internship here at CRC; I feel like time is flying by …Continue reading →

Conserving Laing III In April this year, I was lucky enough to be offered a 10 week internship to begin conservation work on the David Laing Bequest of rare books. This internship was …Continue reading →

New Zealand Special Collections The New Zealand House Special Collection has now been fully catalogued by our Cataloguing Interns. It contains over 200 fascinating and rare items, dating from 1773 onwards.  These books come …Continue reading →

Further funding success Fundraising continues to go from strength to strength for the St Cecilia’s Hall Project. Following the recent successful Heritage Lottery Fund award in March, the Binks Trust have pledged a …Continue reading →

Godfrey and Hector Thomson TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Childhood Photographs | CRC | Edinburgh university Library Special Collecions | Fathers Day | Godfrey Thomson | Hector Thomson | Intelligence | personal papers | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (Coll-1310/1/2/2 Family Photographs) With father’s day coming up this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to blog about the father/son relationship between Godfrey and Hector Thomson. When Hector was …Continue reading →

A secret agent exposed… TAGS: 007 | BigTam | Edinburgh College of Art | Sean Connery As I am told by every taxi driver who ever gives me a lift home, Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge area is famous for being the childhood home of Sean Connery. But, you …Continue reading →