Love, Loss, and Literature: Cataloguing the Papers of Irene Jessie Young TAGS: Archives My name is Nancy Britten, and I’m in my fourth year of studying History at the University of Edinburgh. From January to April 2026, I had the wonderful opportunity to …Continue reading →

Cleaning Dirty Pages – The Power of the Smoke Sponge TAGS: Archives | Centre for Research Collections | Collections Management | Heritage Collections | Moray House School of Education | surface cleaning | University of Edinburgh By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archive Collections Manager Moray House School of Education has a long and often complicated history. Formed in 1907 as part of a merger between …Continue reading →

Shorthand in the New College Special Collections TAGS: Archives | handwriting | Thomas Chalmers by Danielle Fox, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Library Shorthand writing, also known as tachygraphy, stenography, or brachygraphy, is a system of writing that uses symbols and abbreviations to …Continue reading →

Hill and Adamson Collection: an insight into Edinburgh’s past TAGS: Adamson and Hill | Archives | Edinburgh | photography My name is Phoebe Kirkland, I am an MSc East Asian Studies student, and for the last 4 months, I have been a Digital Collections Assistant working on digitising and …Continue reading →

Cataloguing the private papers of Archibald Hunter Campbell: A Journey Through Correspondence TAGS: Archives My name is Pauline Vincent, I am a student in my last year of a Master’s degree in Archives Management at the University of Haute-Alsace, in France. This year, I …Continue reading →

Archival Provenance Research Project: Lishan’s Experience TAGS: Archives | Manuscripts Presentation My name is Lishan Zou, I am a fourth year History and Politics student. As I enter my final year of undergraduate history, I have come to appreciate the …Continue reading →

Activism and Social Change in LGBT+ History TAGS: activism | Archives | Books | Dissertation and Thesis Festival | e-books | e-resources | LGBT+ History | LGBT+ History Month | LGBTQ+ studies | LHSA | Libby | Library | lothian health services archive | online resources | primary sources | research | resources | social change In February we celebrate LGBT+ History Month 2025 in the UK and this year the theme is ‘Activism and Social Change’. Throughout history and across the globe LGBT+ activists have …Continue reading →

New E-resources Trials for November TAGS: 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Black history | Britain | databases | Europe | Germany | history | Newspapers | official documents | Politics | primary source | Scotland | West Indies | World War Two Thanks to requests from staff and students in HCA, the Library has trial access to 4 digital primary source collections in November. From an Antiguan sugar plantation, politics and war …Continue reading →

New E-resources Trials TAGS: 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Archaeology | Archives | Asia | Britain | cultural history | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | official documents | Politics | primary source Thanks to requests from students and staff in HCA the Library currently has trial access to 4 databases, covering the Middle Ages onwards. All 4 databases can be accessed from …Continue reading →

Managing Collections: Edinburgh College of Art TAGS: Archives | Archives Appraisal | cataloguing | Edinburgh College of Art | reboxing | rehousing | university archives One of our largest and most complex collections is that of the Edinburgh College of Art (hereafter named ECA). Transferred to Heritage Collections in 2012 following the merger of the …Continue reading →