An Afternoon with Esther Inglis: Event Summary This post was written by Jaycee Streeter, Outreach and Communications Intern for the Esther Inglis Project. Jaycee is a History MSc student at the University, with research interests in early …Continue reading →

“Happy Notebooking”; reflections on the Lyell Access and Engagement Programme (LAEP) Over the past five years, the University of Edinburgh has undertaken a transformative programme to catalogue, preserve, and enhance access to the Charles Lyell Collection. This final blog marks a …Continue reading →

LibKey Nomad – one click-link to full-text TAGS: e-books | e-resources | full-text | LibKey Nomad | online resources Have you ever had that frustrating experience of searching on the web and finding a useful resource, but not sure whether the Library has access to it? Searching for academic …Continue reading →

Reconstructing Order: Collaboration and Complexity within Sir Charles Lyell’s Archival Legacy The Sir Charles Lyell Project has technically finished, and our final blogs will offer some guidance for access and future use – BUT – we just want to share a …Continue reading →

Meet the RESP Fieldwork Interns Written by: Katie Shepherd, RESP Fieldwork Intern Hello world! I’m Katie, a Masters student at the University of Edinburgh studying Musicology. In collaboration with Ailsa, a final-year undergraduate student in Ethnology, …Continue reading →

Symbolae Scoticae Today we are publishing an article by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement team, on the Symbolae Scoticae: a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 …Continue reading →

Astronomical Observation of the planet Venus, Persia 1874 Today we are publishing an article by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement team, on the astronomical observation of the planet Venus from Persia, 150 years ago. In …Continue reading →

Ideas in Motion: Mapping Lyell’s Transatlantic Lectures As part of our goal to ‘create a complete, comprehensive, and enhanced online catalogue,’ one series emerged as particularly in need of attention: ‘Lectures.’ Lyell Intern Claire Bottoms took on …Continue reading →

Celebrating a new batch of recordings just added to the RESP website For this blog post, which marks the most recent upload of recordings onto the RESP Archive website, we are delighted to hear from Mark Mulhern, Senior Research Fellow with the …Continue reading →

The Great Fire of Edinburgh, 1824 TAGS: 1824 | Great Fire of Edinburgh | William Home Lizars This year marks the bicentenary of one of the most destructive events in Edinburgh’s history, the ‘Great Fire’ of 15-21 November 1824. In this blog, Ash Mowat, a volunteer in …Continue reading →