Back to the Wall: A Year of Experimenting with the Main Library’s Digital Wall TAGS: Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | Edinburgh College of Art | photography | students | Talks | University of Edinburgh Library The Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) has managed the Main Library’s Digital Wall since it was installed in late 2019.1 The Wall is made up of two sets of nine …Continue reading →

Documenting I.C.28 TAGS: Anatomy | bodysnatchers | bones | Burke | Burke and Hare | Centre for Research Collections | Centre for Research Collections Digital Imaging Unit | CHDS | collections | composite | conservation | crime | cultural heritage | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging | Edinburgh | edinburgh crime | High Quality Photography | Library | medical history | National Museum of Scotland | photography | Scotland | skeleton | skull | true crime | University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library | victorian Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for future collection care. The remains had been conserved and cleaned …Continue reading →

From Tantruming Cobots to Stephen Hawking at Work- CHDS at the AHFAP 2022 Conference TAGS: AHFAP | archive | cobots | digital library | digitisation | heritage | Library | National Museum of Scotland | photography | scanning | The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference | University of Edinburgh Library   The Association for Historical and Fine Art Photogapher’s (AHFAP) conference is always a highlight of the year and, alongside 2and3D Photography at the Rijksmuseum and Archiving, it has become …Continue reading →

Celebrating a 70th Anniversary Acquisition! TAGS: Archives | coal mining | Fife | Fishing | Glasgow | Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert | Longannet Colliery | Mining | North Sea | Paddy's Market | photography | School of Scottish Studies Archive | Scotland | SSSA | sssa at 70 Earlier this year, the School of Scottish Studies Archive and the Centre for Research Collections teamed up with renowned Scottish photographer, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, to add a landmark collection of photos …Continue reading →

Over the line – a German medic’s war TAGS: German | Levin | Medicine | neurology | photography | trenches | WW1 In this month’s edition, Louise, Archivist in Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA), finds a different view of the First World War…. Ernst Levin (1887 – 1975) was a German-born neurologist …Continue reading →

Some pictures from 1980s Punjab TAGS: collection | photography | Punjab In this project we tackle theses chronologically. We follow a spreadsheet that has been ordered, more or less, by date and name of author. As we move forwards, we have …Continue reading →

A Picture of Health TAGS: health | history of medicine | hospitals | photography On Thursday 30th October from 10am, Louise and Clair from Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA) will be on the Library Pop desk on the first floor of the Main Library. …Continue reading →

The Pencil of Nature TAGS: Library | photography | William Henry Fox Talbot Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pencil of Nature“. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The …Continue reading →

Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit TAGS: Adamson | Hill | photography The Centre for Research Collections is a remarkable resource for students at Edinburgh University, not only for research purposes, but also for experience working with collections.  I am an MSc …Continue reading →