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December 4, 2023
‘Nothing is Here for Tears’: Helen Cruickshank Bids Farewell to F. Marian McNeill TAGS: F. Marian McNeill | Helen B. Cruickshank This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of folklorist F. Marian McNeill on 22 February 1973. Edinburgh University Library holds the manuscript of a memorial poem written by …Continue reading →
Fifty Years of ‘An Orkney Tapestry’ TAGS: Charles Senior | George Mackay Brown | Helen B. Cruickshank | Norman MacCaig | Scottish Literature This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of two of George Mackay Brown’s landmark publications, An Orkney Tapestry and A Time to Keep. While Brown was already well established as a …Continue reading →
A Scottish Witness of the Great Kantō Earthquake
To mark the centenary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, we are publishing a...
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare and the Young of All Ages
The English writer Walter de la Mare was born 150 years ago this week on...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
