MIMEd abroad! Two members of the MIMEd staff travel to Boston to spread the news about the SCH redevelopment.   In June, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet and Sarah Deters travelled to Boston to attend the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) Conference, hosted by the …Continue reading →

Last day TAGS: Fairbairn Archive | Fairbairn project | Ronald Fairbairn | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Today is my final day working with the William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Archive, as my six-month, Wellcome Trust funded post comes to an end. The main aim of my post …Continue reading →

School’s in for Summer! TAGS: Moray House Arvchive | Textile conservation | workshops At the beginning of June I began working with the Moray House Archive at the CRC. It’s been a fantastic collection to work with, as every box I have opened …Continue reading →

Do it like they do on the DiscoverEd channel TAGS: Annexe | collections | DiscoverEd | Library | Library Annexe | Search | University of Edinburgh DiscoverED, the University of Edinburgh’s new one step information, discovery and delivery service, is now on-line and fully operational. You can request Library Annexe items using the new service; all …Continue reading →

LUNA 7 goes live! Our imaging platform (http://images.is.ed.ac.uk) has been given a keenly-awaited revamp with the upgrade to the LUNA 7 software. Those of you that are familiar with the old version may not …Continue reading →

Bohemian Protest on Display To commemorate the 600th anniversary of the death of Church reformer Jan Hus (d.1415), the Centre for Research Collections is currently displaying the Bohemian Protest, a document surrounded by the …Continue reading →

Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library now catalogued online TAGS: Church of Scotland | Free Church of Scotland | New College Library I’m pleased to report that the Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library has now been catalogued online. A big thank you to the two project cataloguers who have tackled this collection, Finlay …Continue reading →

Let me introduce myself! TAGS: conservation | CRC | Intern | student placement I am Thais, a first year conservation student at Northumbria University and I am now part way through a four week placement at the conservation studio in CRC (Centre for …Continue reading →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #2 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn A recent post on this blog, Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1, explored the subject of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn’s dream drawings, which date from the 1950s. The focus of that first post were Fairbairn’s drawings …Continue reading →

Science during Wartime TAGS: campus | science | students | Untold stories We have a more detailed analysis of the University’s response to the experience and aftermath of WW1 to come later on.  This article looks instead highlights a few of the …Continue reading →