A letter from Pip TAGS: 20th century history | Birth control | Carlos Paton Blacker | CRC | Edinburgh University Library | Eugenics | Eugenics Society | Godfrey Thomson | Intelligence testing | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | Royal Commission on Population | University of Edinburgh | Wellcome Library | Wellcome Trust Some of the most interesting letters in Thomson’s collection were sent to his widow following his death in 1955.  The following, from psychiatrist and secretary of the Eugenics society Carlos …Continue reading →

Exhibition Archive: The Model (22/11/13 – 9/12/13) Edinburgh College of Art TAGS: Anatomy | Edinburgh College of Art | Gray's School of Art | The Model The Model, curated by Gordon Brennan (Head of Painting) and Neil Lebeter (Art Collections Curator), brought together models from across University Collections; ranging from Geology, Veterinary Science Anatomy, Music and …Continue reading →

My First MOOC! TAGS: Library | MOOCs The University of Edinburgh has been an early adopter of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and offers courses through both the Coursera and FutureLearn platforms.   Library services need to constantly …Continue reading →

Christmas is nearly here! TAGS: Archives | Christmas | Dancing | ECA | Moray House | Poems | Revel In celebration of the next week’s big event, we thought we’d bring you a sample of some of the festive bits and pieces in our archive collections. As always, the …Continue reading →

Thinking about a Data Vault TAGS: Library | Research Data In a recent blog post, we looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether their primary …Continue reading →

A few of my favourite [festive!] things TAGS: Christmas | Cyprus | Hector and Andromache | mathematics | Newcastle | Professor Godfrey Thomson | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson At the start of the festive period, I had the best of intentions to post a festive blog post for every day of advent.  Alas, there isn’t much mention of …Continue reading →

Merry Fishmas to you all! TAGS: Christmas | ECA | Wee Red Herring | Zombies As it’s only a week to go until Christmas, enjoy a festive edition of The Wee Red Herring from the ECA archive, complete with zombies and everything. December 2009 issue …Continue reading →

Art Collections at the Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Party TAGS: ECA | Isobel Turley | Sculpture Party Zane by Isobel Turley The annual Sculpture Party is part of ECA legend. Organised by the Sculpture department, it raises money for the School of Art Degree shows and takes …Continue reading →

South Asianist celebrates a century of Indian Cinema The fifth issue of The South Asianist celebrates a century of India cinema with an impressive range of articles, interviews and film reviews. Senior Indian film-music critic, writer and commentator, …Continue reading →

Dollymania – Seven Days that Shook the World TAGS: biotechnology | cloning | dolly the sheep | roslin institute 1997 was quite a significant year for the Roslin Institute with “’Dolly, the sheep, ‘…the first mammal cloned from a cell from an adult animal…generated an amazing amount of interest …Continue reading →