Student Interns Capture ‘The Student’ TAGS: Bookeye | Edinburgh | Internship | newspaper | scanning | Student Journalism | students | The Student In February 2022, PhD students Vesna Curlic and Ash Charlton began their digitisation internships in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections and the Centre for Data, …Continue reading →

Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | The Student In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984: The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff …Continue reading →

HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco ‘meets’ his great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert I TAGS: 'Princesse Alice' | Herbert Mather Spoor (1872-1917) | Honorary LLD | Prince Albert I of Monaco | Princess Grace of Monaco (1929-1982) | Scottish National Antarctic Expedition | Senatus Academicus | Spitsbergen | The Student | William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921) Today, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco visited the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), and met the Director of ECCI and staff from the School of Geosciences at …Continue reading →

Scotland: “still a long way to go”: The Student, 18/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student The digitised 18 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online. Catching the headlines this week: Secretary of State for Scotland George Younger describes the “massive …Continue reading →

Freshers, Festival, Football: The Student, 11 Oct 1984 TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Hot off the press (and a day early!), the 11 October 1984 edition of The Student is now available to read online https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/thestudent/. Featuring the surprising success of Big Country, …Continue reading →

1984 – The Student’s perspective TAGS: 1984 | alumni | The Student Which iconic university building was described by a young student journalist in 1984 as a place “where students go to recover from hangovers”? What did students of the 1980s do …Continue reading →

December 1987 TAGS: Christmas | Grant Cuts | television | Teviot Row House | The Student The final issues of Student for 1987 see a celebratory issue for 100 years of stellar student reporting, some exciting news for Teviot-goers, and a Christmas-themed political protest. Read more here!