Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Loose-leaf Material TAGS: book conservation | Centre for Collections | collections care | conservation | decorated paper | paper conservation | Preventative Conservation | rare books | rehousing | technican | University of Edinburgh In this post, Technician Robyn Rogers discusses her bespoke mounting and rehousing of loose-leaf papers from the University’s decorated paper collection. Robyn’s first post about working through the collection’s bound …Continue reading →

An Explorer’s Legacy: The Journey of the John Rae Collection TAGS: Collections Management | collections registrar | Loans As part of ongoing work on the University’s historic loans, Collections Registrar, Morven Rodger, investigates the history and provenance of the University’s John Rae collection. In July 1926, the University …Continue reading →

Tackling Lyell’s Specimens with Lizzie (& Vernon’s) help! Using funding awarded by the Institute of Sedimentologists, Lizzie Freestone worked during the Summer of 2024 as the Charles Lyell Web Development Intern. Read on to learn all about her …Continue reading →

Fantasia: An Exhibition for Young Artists by our Gold Arts Award students Over the past year, a group of young people between the ages of 14-17 have been completing their Gold Arts Award through our ‘Arts All Around’ programme: a partnership between …Continue reading →

Exploring Scotland, Uncovering America: Enriching Lyell’s Legacy Thank you to guest blogger, Andrea Edwards, who shares her experience of spending the ‘summer’ working on the Charles Lyell correspondence… Hi! My name is Andrea Edwards. I am an …Continue reading →

Conserving calligraphy: preparing Esther Inglis’ manuscripts for digitisation TAGS: Archives | book conservation | Centre for Research Collections | digitisation | Esther Inglis | Exhibition | paper conservation In this post book conservator Amy Baldwin talks about the conservation work undertaken on volumes appearing in the upcoming online exhibition “Rewriting the script: the works and words of Esther …Continue reading →

Celebrating Success: Lyell’s Offprint Collection Fully Documented Hello, we are interns Claire and Harriet, who have now been working for 5 months on Charles Lyell’s Offprint collection held by Heritage Collections. In our first blog post, we …Continue reading →

Neptune 1820 Convict Ship Voyage Ash Mowat is a volunteer with the Civic Engagement team and in this blog explores the journals of James Mitchell from the 1820 convict ship voyage to New South Wales. …Continue reading →

Music for Esther Inglis: August events The Esther Inglis project has been gathering momentum behind the scenes, with plans now in place for an international colloquium, an online exhibition taking shape, many new digitisations of Esther …Continue reading →

Sir James Young Simpson In light of the upcoming 300th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Medicine in 2026, volunteer Ash Mowat looks to the archives to find out about Sir James …Continue reading →