Ars Anatomica- back from the dead! The image collection associated with the Ars Anatomica (Imaging the Renaissance Body) project has finally been restored into the LUNA image service in all its glory, here. This project was …Continue reading →

Darwin cataloguing project completed Today we have finished the cataloguing of our Darwin collection.  Almost last to be done was one of the nicest finds – offprints of two of Darwin’s early articles, on …Continue reading →

The Model at ECA TAGS: Collaboration | ECA | Exhibition | The Model It’s all go at Edinburgh College of Art at the moment for the opening of The Model exhibition, featuring items from Geology, Anatomy, and Dick Vet, alongside work by ECA …Continue reading →

Collect.Ed Exhibition: Curiosities from the University’s Collections TAGS: Exhibitions | Library “How strange this mass of ancient treasures, mementos of past pains and pleasures.” Charlotte Brontë Opening: 6th December 2013 | Where: Exhibition Gallery, Main Library, George Square | Closing: 1st …Continue reading →

‘The Art Student’ Cartoons for Movember! TAGS: 1950s | Archives | art | Edinburgh College of Art | Movember | The Art Student Today our volunteer Neasa found some interesting cartoons that include some unusual depictions of moustaches in the ECA ‘The Art Student’ magazines from 1950, 1951 and 1952. We hope you …Continue reading →

‘Who is that chap with the terrific head?!’ TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh University Special Collections | Hugh MacDiarmid | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | R H Westwater | Robert Heriot Westwater Robert Heriot Westwater’s most famous portrait is probably that of Christopher Murray Grieve (more widely known by his nom de plume,  Hugh McDiarmid!).  But Westwater also painted two very different …Continue reading →

500 years of Gavin Douglas CRC is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first translation of Virgil’s Aeneid into Scots, by the Edinburgh poet Gavin Douglas. Gavin Douglas completed his Eneados, a translation of Virgil’s …Continue reading →

Happy Halloween/Samhuinn from the Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Library Annexe The results of our now annual Annexe pumpkin carving competition.   Ohh spooky. Stephanie Farley (Charlie), Library Annexe Assistant

Alan Greenwood’s ‘Mexican Misadventure’ TAGS: 1958 | alan william greenwood | conference | congress | floods | james ebeneezer wilson | mexico | mexico city | poultry Many of the scientists who feature in our collections were extremely well-travelled, and their archives abound with information about the conferences, congresses and conventions which they attended all over the …Continue reading →

Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth: Collections Connections TAGS: Archives | art | Barbara Hepworth | Ben Nicholson | Edinburgh College of Art | Letters | Venice Biennale We’ve mentioned before how we work across the collections to tell the stories about the life, times and doings at ECA. So we thought we’d show you some of the …Continue reading →