To Africa with Love TAGS: Africa | Archives | missions | New College Library | research | Scotland | Special Collections | World Christianity | Z Collection Today’s Centre for the Study of World Christianity Research Seminar is presented by Dr Jack Thompson, ‘African mission photography: Light on Darkness’. This item, Reports of the Glasgow Missionary Society, from …Continue reading →

Scotlands oldest documents online TAGS: Archives | Scotland Looks like a very interesting project …

New College Library Archives TAGS: Alec Campbell Cheyne | Archives | Church of Scotland | Covenanters | Divinity | James Renwick | James Whyte | John McIntyre | New College Library | online | Thomas Chalmers | Tom Allan | University of Edinburgh Did you know that New College Library holds significant collections of archives and manuscripts? These  collections include the papers of Thomas Chalmers, J.H. Oldham, James S. Stewart and Norman W. …Continue reading →

How an Olympic champion became a missionary TAGS: Archives | Books | China | donations | missionary | missions | New College Library | Olympics | summer | University of Edinburgh The BBC Scotland programme Eric Liddell: A Champion’s Life http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lb63b  on BBC2 tonight (Monday 23rd July) at 10pm features items from University of Edinburgh Collections. New College Library recently received …Continue reading →

Medieval manuscript on display at New College Library … TAGS: Archives | medieval | New College Library | rare books | Special Collections Now on display at New College Library : the Athanasii Opuscula. This fifteenth century Italian medieval manuscript has a beautiful painted and gold tooled frontispiece and a neat humanistic script. In the …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Methodists TAGS: Archives | church history | Church of Scotland | family history | Library | Methodist Church | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | research | Scotland I’ve had two enquiries in the last few weeks about Methodists in Scotland, from individuals researching their family history – it seems to be a hot topic! Fortunately New College Library  recently received …Continue reading →

Following in the footsteps of the New College Librarian TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Divinity | John Howard | Library | New College Edinburgh | New College Library Spent some time this morning sculling through the New College archives looking for correspondence about some of the New College Special Collections, the Dumfries Presbytery Library and the Longforgan Free …Continue reading →