The University of Edinburgh Library Annexe TAGS: Annexe | south gyle Many University staff and students are blissfully unaware of the existence of the Library Annexe (I know I was, before starting work here earlier this summer), which is situated in the heart …Continue reading →

18th Century Drama and other resources for trial The Library has organised a free trial, until 29th Nov 2016, of several literature-related databases of digitised archives and manuscripts: Eighteenth Century Drama A unique archive of almost every play submitted …Continue reading →

New College Collections: The Expected and the Unexpected (I) On Saturday 22 October, I was delighted to be able to present a paper to the Scottish Church History Society at their one day conference in the Edinburgh Theological Seminary. …Continue reading →

Wicked Witches In our last post we revealed some of the Halloween customs detailed in the Statistical Accounts, including some spooky ghost stories.  Although superstitious beliefs seem to have been receding during …Continue reading →

Halloween: Sports and Spooks in the Statistical Accounts Halloween is approaching and the nights are drawing in. So this is the perfect time to discover some spooky stories and supernatural superstitions reported in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. …Continue reading →

Philosopher’s Index with Full-Text The Philosopher’s Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy, and is a resource to which Library have users have had …Continue reading →

We are Open for Business! We are very excited to announce that the new study spaces on the Lower Ground Floor are now open! We know how hard it can be to find a study …Continue reading →

Nearly there! Everything is almost ready for the study spaces on the Lower Ground Floor of the Main Library to open, we just have a few last minute things to put in …Continue reading →

The Invisible Cities Of Edinburgh TAGS: 1640's | 1700's | 1760's | 1770's | 1820's | 1830's | 1850's | 1890's | 1910's | 1960's | 2010's | Edinburgh | George Street | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | St. Andrew Square | Theses | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd | Yuri Herrera [Click images for full-size view] This study is concerned with examining the evolution of status areas in the context of Edinburgh. Status areas were defined in three period analyses in …Continue reading →

The women behind the words: thanking the typists of the twentieth century Digitising this thesis collection is an act of time travel. We began in May at the early twentieth century and are currently working through the seventies. We have enjoyed images …Continue reading →