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April 20, 2025
Digital Witness TAGS: Church of Scotland | Divinity | Free Church | Hugh Miller | new college | Presbyterian | The Witness Newspaper We have started digitising The Witness newspaper! This twice weekly newspaper was created by the Church of Scotland in 1840 and edited by Hugh Miller (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Miller ), an influential …Continue reading →
‘The price of blood’ : Frederick Douglass speaks to Scotland TAGS: Archives | Free Church | nineteenth-century | slavery | Thomas Chalmers A guest post for Black History Month by Eleanor Rideout, IS Helpdesk Assistant Noted African-American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass had embarked on a tour of Ireland and Great Britain, reaching …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
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Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
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Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
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