Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 5 TAGS: Bank of sweets | Black Shuck | book illustration | carollers | childhood memories | Children's stories | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Henry VIII | Hertfordshire | Hitchin | hobby horse | Illustration | krakow | Lajkonik | lany poniedzialek | masqueraders | Norfolk | Notgeld | Ogre of Smeeth | Pedlar of Swaffham | poland | rare books | Smigus-dyngus | Special Collections | Wet Monday Wet Monday, Henry VIII Falls in the River, and the Ogre of Smeeth, all funded through the Bank of Sweets. For our fifth visit to the ECA Illustration students’ Notgeld …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 3 TAGS: book illustration | Edinburgh College of Art | etching | hippogriff | Illustration | Mars | Notgeld | rabbits | rare books | steampunk | Utopia Hippogriffs, Rabbits, Skyship Ports and Mars: Fantasy Worlds In our third visit to the student Notgeld and its connections with the exhibition, we move into the realms of fantasy. Some …Continue reading →

On trial: Age of Exploration TAGS: 15th century | 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Americas | Asia | Britain | China | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Europe | film | history | India | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | Maps | Oceania | primary source | rare books | social history I’m pleased to let you know the Library currently has trial access to Age of Exploration, a digital primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital. This database allows you to …Continue reading →

Steps Through Time at New College Library TAGS: Archives | Exhibitions | New College Library | rare books | students Have you seen the new Steps Through Time display at New College Library? Today we’re celebrating the Steps Through Time project, which developed six display panels to be mounted alongside …Continue reading →

On trial: The Age of Exploration TAGS: 15th century | 16th century | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Americas | Antarctic | Archives | Arctic | Asia | Britain | China | correspondence | cultural history | databases | Europe | film | history | India | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | Maps | Oceania | primary source | rare books | social history Thanks to a request from staff in HCA the Library currently has trial access to a brand new digital primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, Age of Exploration. This …Continue reading →

Spotlight on our Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Archives | Asia | Books | Britain | Centre for Research Collections | correspondence | cultural history | Europe | history | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | medieval | primary source | rare books | social history | Special Collections | Spotlight on | United States | University of Edinburgh On Tuesday 30th January we’ll be holding a Discovery Day event in the Main Library where representatives from 3 publishers of digitised primary source collections and our very own Centre …Continue reading →

Martin Luther in his own words #Reformation500 TAGS: church history | Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century Today the School of Divinity will mark 500 years since Martin Luther nailed the Ninety Five Theses to the door of Wittemberg Church with a public lecture from Durham University’s …Continue reading →

Conservation Volunteers in the Collections Rationalisation Project TAGS: Collections rationalisation project | rare books | surface cleaning | volunteers This week our Project Conservator, Helen, talks about the great work volunteers have done as a part of the Collections Rationalisation project… Some of the main aims of the Collections …Continue reading →

On trial: Codices Vossiani Latini Online TAGS: Ancient history | Archives | Books | classics | databases | e-books | history | Latin | primary source | rare books Thanks to a request from a member of staff in Classics, we currently have trial access to Brill’s Codices Vossiani Latini Online which publishes all 363 codices which form the …Continue reading →

Student interns in Stack III this summer TAGS: New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century | students Over this summer, our three student interns, Thomas, Holly and Mila have been hard at work behind the scenes in New College Library’s Stack III. Their task was to work with …Continue reading →