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December 3, 2023
Second General Military Hospital, Craigleith TAGS: Archives | CRC | Untold stories | WW1 In this edition of Untold Stories, Louise (Archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive) looks at the history of one of the many military hospitals in our region: During the current …Continue reading →
Science during Wartime TAGS: campus | science | students | Untold stories We have a more detailed analysis of the University’s response to the experience and aftermath of WW1 to come later on. This article looks instead highlights a few of the …Continue reading →
Edinburgh’s first geneticist: Arthur Darbishire (1879-1915) TAGS: animal genetics | genetics | Towards Dolly | Untold stories In 1911, the University of Edinburgh appointed its first Lecturer in Genetics. The Lectureship was the first academic genetics post in Britain – the Balfour Chair in Genetics at the …Continue reading →
A Scottish Witness of the Great Kantō Earthquake
To mark the centenary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, we are publishing a...
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare and the Young of All Ages
The English writer Walter de la Mare was born 150 years ago this week on...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
