New College Library is open throughout the Edinburgh Festival 2017 TAGS: current-events | Edinburgh | New College Library | summer Edinburgh Festival time is coming, and the Assembly Hall on the Mound will once again be a Festival venue. As well as the Assembly Hall, the Rainy Hall and various other …Continue reading →

Printmaking: Identification, Preservation and Creation TAGS: art | Edinburgh | festival of museums | linocut | Printmaking | University of Edinburgh Immerse yourself in all things print! Join our conservators, Emily and Katharine, for an evening of preservation and printmaking. For centuries artists have been using different printing techniques to depict …Continue reading →

Images of early Islamic architecture: a record of destroyed antiquities in Iraq and Syria TAGS: Aleppo | antiquities under threat | Archaeology | destroyed antiquities | digitisation | Early Islamic Architecture | Edinburgh | ERA | Iraq | Mosul | Palmyra | PhD | Samarra | Shia | Syria | Theses   The aim of our PhD thesis digitisation project is to make available the unique research of the University of Edinburgh. This research has a greater significance when, within the …Continue reading →

The Invisible Cities Of Edinburgh TAGS: 1640's | 1700's | 1760's | 1770's | 1820's | 1830's | 1850's | 1890's | 1910's | 1960's | 2010's | Edinburgh | George Street | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | St. Andrew Square | Theses | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd | Yuri Herrera [Click images for full-size view] This study is concerned with examining the evolution of status areas in the context of Edinburgh. Status areas were defined in three period analyses in …Continue reading →

What The Copibook Saw TAGS: 1850's | 1910's | 1960's | Copibook | digitisation | Edinburgh | PhD | time-lapse | youtube

Cemeteries in the 60’s TAGS: 1960's | burials | cemeteries | digitisation | Edinburgh | France | Library | memorials | PhD | rare books | Roman | stele | Theses Iron Age burial excavated at Châlons-sur-Marne, France (Ritchie: 1968) Highlights from the PhD digitisation project Exploring the theme of cemeteries and memorials showcases some of the most visually rich and striking theses …Continue reading →

CRC Summer School: Day 1 TAGS: Archives | CRCsummerschool | Edinburgh | happylibrary | Museums This week the Centre for Research Collections is running its very first Summer School to provide an overview of different aspects of the heritage sector; with a focus on collections, …Continue reading →

I: 100th anniversary of ‘Zeppelin’ air attack on Edinburgh – A school student walks among the wreckage TAGS: Archibald H. Campbell (1902-1989) | Edinburgh | Zeppelin A STORY FROM THE DIARY OF 15-YEAR OLD ARCHIBALD H CAMPBELL (1902-1918) WHO WOULD LATER BECOME REGIUS PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC LAW AND THE LAW OF NATURE AND THE NATIONS, EDINBURGH …Continue reading →

A Suffragette Belt TAGS: Edinburgh | Politics | Suffrage The CRC has recently acquired a rare belt previously owned by a Scottish suffragette. The belt has already been attracting lots of interest on Twitter so we’ve been exploring where …Continue reading →

Mary Lyon (1925-2014) – Edinburgh connections TAGS: Edinburgh | genetics | genome | mary lyon | mottled | mouse | muscular dystrophy | mutants | x-chromosome We were saddened to hear recently of the passing of Mary Lyon, a distinguished mouse geneticist. Born in 1925 in Norwich, Mary was best known for her X-chromosome inactivation hypothesis, …Continue reading →