Women in Scotland: Women in work In the last three of posts on women in Scotland we have discovered that women worked in many sectors, including manufacturing (spinning, weaving, needlework,etc), and the farming and fishing industries. …Continue reading →

DHC2018 part 2: highlight talks There were a number of talks which stood out for me, both in terms of general interest and also in their relation to work in libraries. I’ve summarised just a …Continue reading →

DHC2018 part 1: some key themes I was fortunate to receive funding this year from UCISA to attend DHC2018 (Digital Humanities Congress – not to be mistaken with the 16th International Symposium on District Heating and …Continue reading →

Thomas Chalmers and The West Port Experiment TAGS: New College Library | nineteenth-century | Territorial ministry | Thomas Chalmers | West Port | West Port Experiment | William Tasker Those with an interest in Scottish church history are likely to be very familiar with Thomas Chalmers and the role he played in the Disruption of 1843 but how many …Continue reading →

An internship in the Research Data Service: Towards tailored Research Data Support For four weeks in July and August 2018, I did an internship in the Research Data Support (RDS) of the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services (IS). Otherwise, I am working …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Servants and Miners We continue our series on women in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, with a particular focus on employment. The existence of women servants is not a surprise, but women miners …Continue reading →

Interning with the Research Data Service For almost four months, I have been interning with the Research Data Service (RDS) as a project assistant. I decided to apply for the internship simply because I had received RDS …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Farming and Fishing In our last post we looked at women working in manufacturing. In fact, in many parishes it was the women who predominantly worked in this sector, spinning. However, there were …Continue reading →

Marking up collections sites with Schema.org – Blog 2 This blog was written by Nandini Tyagi, who was working with Holly Coulson on this project. This blog follows the blog post written by Holly Coulson, my fellow intern at …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Manufacturing This is the first post in our new series looking at women in Scotland. If you search for the subject “women” in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland the results are …Continue reading →