Crime and punishment in late 18th-early 19th century Scotland: Types of punishment In our last two blog posts in our series on crime and punishment we have looked at levels, types, causes and prevention of crime. But, how exactly did parishes in …Continue reading →

Celebrating 100 years of Social Work at Edinburgh University Welcome to the introductory blogpost of Advisors, Advocates & Activists: A Century and more of Social Work in Edinburgh. Work has now begun on cataloguing the collections of Edinburgh University’s …Continue reading →

We’re hiring! Information Services has a new vacancy for a Data Safe Haven Operations Assistant to work directly with the Data Safe Haven Manager in the Research Data Support Team in providing …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 5 TAGS: Bank of sweets | Black Shuck | book illustration | carollers | childhood memories | Children's stories | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Henry VIII | Hertfordshire | Hitchin | hobby horse | Illustration | krakow | Lajkonik | lany poniedzialek | masqueraders | Norfolk | Notgeld | Ogre of Smeeth | Pedlar of Swaffham | poland | rare books | Smigus-dyngus | Special Collections | Wet Monday Wet Monday, Henry VIII Falls in the River, and the Ogre of Smeeth, all funded through the Bank of Sweets. For our fifth visit to the ECA Illustration students’ Notgeld …Continue reading →

Highland Childhoods in the Old Statistical Accounts – Part 2 Guest blog post Here is the second part of the guest post by Helen Barton and Neil Bruce, MLitt students at the University of the Highlands and Islands, who have …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 4 TAGS: Abstract | Arctic Monkeys | book illustration | Busan | Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art | fork | Goff | Golf | Illustration | Jessica Ennis-Hill | Korea | lace | Leith | Notgeld | Nottingham | Scottish independence | Sean Bean | Sheffield | Special Collections Lace, Forks, The Arctic Monkeys and Golf This is the fourth in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh …Continue reading →

DataVault is now live After an extended development period, we are pleased to report an addition to the University of Edinburgh Research Data Service, adding value to research data for both researchers and their funders: DataVault – funded primarily by the university’s Digital Research Services programme – has gone live this week. DataVault is a companion service to DataShare, which is an institutional trusted digital repository for the deposit of datasets and related outputs by university researchers, to openly license and share them on the Web. DataVault consists of an online interface connected to infrastructure in the university’s data centres and a cloud storage account. The DataVault project has conducted performance and user acceptance testing. It is currently able to accept individual deposits up to 2 TB each, which will be increased as development and testing continue alongside the live service. Each research project can store contents in a single vault made up of any number of deposits.

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 3 TAGS: book illustration | Edinburgh College of Art | etching | hippogriff | Illustration | Mars | Notgeld | rabbits | rare books | steampunk | Utopia Hippogriffs, Rabbits, Skyship Ports and Mars: Fantasy Worlds In our third visit to the student Notgeld and its connections with the exhibition, we move into the realms of fantasy. Some …Continue reading →

Highland Childhoods in the Old Statistical Accounts – Part 1 Guest blog post It is always wonderful to discover first-hand how people use the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Two MLitt students of the University of the Highlands and Islands, Helen …Continue reading →

Research Data Management Training for University of Edinburgh staff and students, Spring 2019 Following on from our blog post on the benefits of RDM training which was posted on the 15th of November, we have scheduled our in-person training courses for the Spring 2019 …Continue reading →