Mission to the Middle East : discovering collections TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Israel | Jewish | missions | World Christianity This week New College Library welcomes delegates of the 2016 conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity. I’ve been discovering that New College …Continue reading →

The women behind New College Library TAGS: Archives | New College Library | nineteenth-century If you visit New College Library today, International Women’s Day, women might seem  hard to find amongst the portraits and busts of Thomas Chalmers and John Knox, and the shelves filled with …Continue reading →

A Christmas Celebration TAGS: Archives | Free Church of Scotland   New College Collections Curator Kirsty Stewart & I were delighted to find this lovely ‘illuminated manuscript’ certificate, which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Walter Chalmers Smith, …Continue reading →

Cut it out! TAGS: Archives | Covenanters | Gaelic | Manuscripts | Presbyterian I have been making my way through the manuscripts collection in an effort to identify material, see what conservation needs there are and generally acquaint myself with the collections. This …Continue reading →

Second General Military Hospital, Craigleith TAGS: Archives | CRC | Untold stories | WW1 In this edition of Untold Stories, Louise (Archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive) looks at the history of one of the many military hospitals in our region: During the current …Continue reading →

Japan Times Archives 1897-2013 TAGS: Archives | japan | Newspapers Following a trial of Japan Times Archives 1897-2013 last May, we have now subsbscribed to this resource, together with full access to the current issues of Japan Times Online. Founded …Continue reading →

ArchivesSpace at the University of Edinburgh – the techie side TAGS: API | Archives | ArchivesSpace | Development Introducing ArchivesSpace for researchers and public users, as well as the administrative side for our Archives Team within the Centre for Research Collections, has been an ongoing project for the …Continue reading →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #2 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn A recent post on this blog, Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1, explored the subject of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn’s dream drawings, which date from the 1950s. The focus of that first post were Fairbairn’s drawings …Continue reading →

‘Edinburgh’s Guilty Avenues’ : horrible histories from the New College Library Archives TAGS: Archives | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Thomas Chalmers A guest post from Eleanor Rideout, New College Library Helpdesk Assistant The grisly find of a letter written in William Burke’s blood, on show as part of this weekend’s Festival …Continue reading →

Fairbairn as Student TAGS: Archives | University of Edinburgh | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn In the academic year 1907/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh.  This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston …Continue reading →