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July 26, 2024
Queer Photography Archive TAGS: Edinburgh Women's Liberation Newsletter | EWLN | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | Queer | Zines For the first few months of 2023, I have been using medium format photography to document a collection of zines, posters, photographs and booklets from the Lothian Health Service Archive. …Continue reading →
From Plagues to Progress: Looking at A Century of Edinburgh’s Public Health TAGS: Bookeye | Edinburgh | LHSA | Lothian Health Board | NHS | public health Over the last few months, our team has been working on digitising the Lothian Health Service Archive’s collection of Annual Public Health Reports for the City of Edinburgh. Comprising of …Continue reading →
“A Beautiful Way to Remember” – Digitising the LHSA’s HIV/AIDS Collections TAGS: AIDS Crisis | AIDS Memorial Quilt | Bookeye | HIV | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | NHS | scanning At the beginning of this year, I started in my role as the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service’s new Digitisation Assistant. As part of the team responsible for providing the main …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...