New Guide to Scottish Literary Papers TAGS: George Mackay Brown | Hugh MacDiarmid | Norman MacCaig | Scottish Literary Papers | Sydney Goodsir Smith A new online guide to some of our major collections of Scottish literary papers is now available on the Centre for Research Collections website. It provides an overview of fourteen …Continue reading →

Blood, Sweat and Photoshop – Preparations for the Degree Show TAGS: Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | Tiina Lilja Tiina Lilja is a final year Painting student at Edinburgh College of Art. Earlier this year, we acquired two of Tiina’s paintings for the University Art Collection as she was …Continue reading →

Alan Davie 1920 – 2014 TAGS: Alan Davie | Archives | art | Edinburgh College of Art We were very sad to hear the news about the death of Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) alumnus and fellow, Alan Davie. The close connection between Davie and ECA over …Continue reading →

The University benefits from Christmas TAGS: Archives | bacteriology | benefactors | robert irvine | sir john murray A recent enquiry about a benefactor has thrown up an interesting set of connections within and beyond the University. The son of Robert Irvine, manager of The Scotsman newspaper, Robert …Continue reading →

Boris Bućan – Printmaker TAGS: Boris Bucan | Edinburgh College of Art | Natasha Russell | Printmaking | Prints Our post today comes from Natasha Russell, Graduate Studio Assistant in Printmaking at ECA. Recently we spent a couple of hours piecing together and marveling at a stack of 18 …Continue reading →

Europeana Cloud Plenary, Athens, March 18-19 The Europeana Cloud project hosted its annual plenary meeting at the Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, on March 18-19. Norman Rodger (P & I) and Scott Renton (LDD) represented the University …Continue reading →

Picture Perfect! TAGS: drosophila | Edinburgh | genetics | institute of animal genetics | photographs | science | waddington Being lucky, as I am, to work with a wide variety of archival collections relating to the history of animal genetics in Edinburgh, it can be mightily difficult to select …Continue reading →

CRC Cataloguing Interns Beth and Fiona have recently started as cataloguing interns in the CRC, and tell us about their first experiences… Thesis cataloguing comes with its perils, for a start, until the …Continue reading →

Volunteer of the Month – February 2014 Claire Rochet, Musical Instrument Museum Edinburgh Volunteer I have been working with the Musical Instrument Collection since October and I had the chance as a volunteer to explore different areas …Continue reading →

Medieval manuscripts behaving badly This 15th century manuscript of the Chronicle of England ends with some rather surprising remarks on the flyleaf: Tritu est perire quod facis ingrato [what you do is lost by thankless wear …Continue reading →