Skene, Societies and Swedish Serendipity TAGS: CHDS | cultural heritage | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Edinburgh | High Quality Photography | James Skene | Leith | runestone | Scotland | Skene Album | sweden | Swedish How often do you walk past a 1000 year old rune stone?  The answer is every day, if you work or study near the Main Library! Earlier this year I …Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Witchcraft, Waulking & Will-o’-the-Wisps – Exploring the Maclagan Manuscripts TAGS: Bookeye | Dr Robert Craig Maclagan | folklore | Gaelic | Light Sheet | Maclagan Manuscripts | Paper Manufacturing | scanning | School of Scottish Studies Archives | Scotland | SSSA | Watermarks | West Highlands Have you ever been stuck for a good nursery rhyme to tell your kids? Or needed a cure for a headache that just will not go away? Or perhaps you’ve found …Continue reading →

Royal Reflections from the RESP Archive TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | Manchester ship canal | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen Victoria | Scotland | social history This weekend sees the culmination of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, and marks her 70th anniversary as monarch. This event provides us with an opportunity to …Continue reading →

The Skene Album – An artistic partnership between author and artist TAGS: conservation | High Quality Photography | Illustration | James Skene | Landscape | Scotland | Sir Walter Scott | Skene Album James Skene was a close friend of one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential writers. By profession  he was a lawyer, but he was also a keen amateur artist. Skene …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 →

The Battle of Life: A look at the Dumfriesshire mental health survey TAGS: Dumfries | mental health | Scotland “worried, dull and anxious, not quite up to the battle of life.” Widowed female, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward As the second world war was coming to an end a …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Scottish nationalist leaflets, 1844-1973 TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Britain | databases | England | history | Politics | primary source | Scotland | Scottish independence | Scottish National Party | SNP I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to the database Scottish nationalist leaflets, 1844-1973 from British Online Archives. This digital primary source database collects together …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Stuart and Cumberland Papers TAGS: 17th century | 18th century | Archives | Battle of Culloden | Britain | correspondence | databases | Europe | history | Jacobite risings | Jacobites | Letters | Manuscripts | official documents | Politics | primary source | Scotland I’m really happy to let you know that the Library has recently been able to purchase the extensive Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, digitised …Continue reading →