Looking Ahead – Our 2024 Project Preview TAGS: CHDS | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging Unit | Edinburgh | Esther Inglis | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | LUNA | Lyell Notebooks | Scotland | Sir Charles Lyell | The Witness Newspaper I began working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services team last November, as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was digitising plant specimens in the Herbarium of the …Continue reading →

Queer Photography Archive TAGS: Edinburgh Women's Liberation Newsletter | EWLN | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | Queer | Zines For the first few months of 2023, I have been using medium format photography to document a collection of zines, posters, photographs and booklets from the Lothian Health Service Archive. …Continue reading →

Dissertation Festival: Exploring library resources for dissertations in gender studies TAGS: Archives | Centre for Research Collections | digital skills | DiscoverEd | Dissertation Festival | gender studies | IAD | information literacy | LGBTQ+ studies | Lothian Health Service Archive | research methods | resources | subject guides | yewno As part of the 2022 Dissertation Festival, running from 7th-18th March and facilitated by the Academic Support Librarians, Digital Skills and IAD teams, I was invited to attend an online …Continue reading →

“A Beautiful Way to Remember” – Digitising the LHSA’s HIV/AIDS Collections TAGS: AIDS Crisis | AIDS Memorial Quilt | Bookeye | HIV | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | NHS | scanning At the beginning of this year, I started in my role as the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service’s new Digitisation Assistant. As part of the team responsible for providing the main …Continue reading →

NHS at 70: Explore the history of the NHS through our primary sources TAGS: 20th century | 21st century | Archives | Britain | cultural history | databases | diaries | film | history | Lothian Health Service Archive | National Health Service | Newspapers | NHS | official documents | primary source | radio | social history | TV 70 years ago today, 5 July, the National Health Service (NHS) was established, one of a number of social and welfare reforms from the post-World War II Labour government (though …Continue reading →