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May 18, 2025
Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | The Student In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984: The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff …Continue reading →
Scotland: “still a long way to go”: The Student, 18/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student The digitised 18 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online. Catching the headlines this week: Secretary of State for Scotland George Younger describes the “massive …Continue reading →
Freshers, Festival, Football: The Student, 11 Oct 1984 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Hot off the press (and a day early!), the 11 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/thestudent/. Featuring the surprising success of Big Country, …Continue reading →
1984 – The Student’s perspective TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Which iconic university building was described by a young student journalist in 1984 as a place “where students go to recover from hangovers”? What did students of the 1980s do …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project
In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the...
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...