The Blue Blanket Each week the Centre for Research Collections receives two deliveries of Special Collection items from the library annexe. Usually these items go back to the annexe when the reader is …Continue reading →

My first week as an intern and how it led to the destruction of a city Jamie started as an intern at the Centre for Research Collections last week, here he tells us about his first few days. I have just finished my first of eight …Continue reading →

Whale hunting: New documentary for broadcast on BBC Four TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive The story of Britain’s whale hunters is to be broadcast across the UK in a new 2-part documentary on BBC Four on Monday 9 June and Monday 16 June. The …Continue reading →

Collections.ed.ac.uk Launched This week, we launched a new service called Collections.ed.ac.uk, which you (staff, students and the wider public) can use to search the University’s rare and unique collections. Four collections are …Continue reading →

The New College Library Strong Room revisited TAGS: Divinity | museum | New College Library | preservation A guest post from our Museums Studies student volunteers, Charlotte Johnson and Liz Louis. Back in December we wrote a blog post on the beginning of our journey working with …Continue reading →

‘The object of art is to give life shape’: Festival of Museums Fun! TAGS: Alan Davie | Archives | art | Collage | Edinburgh College of Art | Eduardo Paolozzi | festival of museums On Saturday we hosted a talk and create workshop at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) with Drawing and Painting Lecturer Joan Smith. This was to celebrate the 1940s for the …Continue reading →

Casting in Retrograde TAGS: cast collection | Deborah Marshall | Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | students Deborah Marshall is a final year Sculpture student at Edinburgh College of Art. Deborah discusses her work for the ECA Degree Show 2014, which investigates the Cast Collection.  Casting in Retrograde – a diptych, …Continue reading →

Towards Molly* In this morning’s RLS team meeting, head of department Stuart Lewis laid down an unusual gauntlet: come up with blog posts related to (tomorrow’s) Eurovision Song Contest. Ever gluttons for …Continue reading →

William Soutar’s Caricatures of Hugh MacDiarmid TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | Scotish Literary Papers | William Soutar A few days ago I gave a talk to the Friends of William Soutar in Perth on the friendship between Soutar and his fellow Scots poet Hugh MacDiarmid, as illustrated …Continue reading →

New Strides, Old Stripes: Zebras and the tsetse fly TAGS: east africa | Edinburgh | genetics | genome | genomics | hagenbeck | james cossar ewart | sequencing | trypanosomiasis | tsetse | zebra It was announced last week that scientists have deciphered the genetic code of the tsetse fly, which offers hope of eradicating one of Africa’s most deadly diseases. The fly, which …Continue reading →