‘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 →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The composition of the Fairbairn Archive is rich, with a wide variety of materials from manuscripts to typescripts and photographs to correspondence. However, amongst the most striking of all the documents are a collection of dream drawings, …Continue reading →

Fairbairn Archive Mystery Item of the Month TAGS: Archives | poetry | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn One of the elements of archival work I have always enjoyed is the opportunity to get to know a collection really intimately. In order to generate intelligible finding aids for researchers, …Continue reading →

William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: an archivist’s perspective TAGS: Archives | Psychoanalysis | Wellcome Trust | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The papers of Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (more usually known simply as Ronald) are held here, in the National Library of Scotland. I’m Karla, an archivist, and since January 2015 …Continue reading →

Clean up your sax TAGS: Archives | conservation I am a Preventive Conservation Masters student at Northumbria University, and as part of my course, I am fortunate to be able to put theory into practice for six weeks …Continue reading →

The Foundation of Anatomy: Class List of Alexander Monro (primus) TAGS: Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767) | alumni | Anatomy | Archives | staff | students From time to time we ‘rediscover’ items in our collections.  It’s not that we didn’t know we had them; rather that they have not come to anyone’s specific attention within …Continue reading →

It’s Bound to be a Pamphlet TAGS: Archives | conservation | Pamphlets | treatment As part of my ongoing conservation treatment plan, I have been asked to address the needs of the Special Collections popular and regularly consulted pamphlet series. We are all used …Continue reading →

Back to the future : New College Library’s history today TAGS: Archives | Disruption | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library was pleased to host a visit from the Friends of Edinburgh University Library last week. As well as looking at a selection of Special Collections and touring the Library, …Continue reading →

1914 voices from the New College Archives TAGS: Archives | New College Library | war On 11 November, there will be a short Act of Remembrance in New College, starting at 10.50am and gathering at the war memorial in the Assembly Hall. Come into New College Library …Continue reading →