On trial: Medical Services and Warfare TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Archives | Britain | clinical notes | conflicts | correspondence | databases | diaries | ephemera | Europe | First World War | government papers | history | hospital records | medical history | military records | primary source | United States | war Further to a request from staff in the Medical School the Library currently has trial access to the digital primary source database Medical Services and Warfare from Adam Matthew. This …Continue reading →

James Miranda Steuart Barry and the Crimean War TAGS: alumni | crimea | James Barry | war We recently became aware of a single letter from James Miranda Barry, written just before departure for Sebastopol shortly after its capture by the ‘allies’ in 1855. We acquired it …Continue reading →

1914 voices from the New College Archives TAGS: Archives | New College Library | war On 11 November, there will be a short Act of Remembrance in New College, starting at 10.50am and gathering at the war memorial in the Assembly Hall. Come into New College Library …Continue reading →

UK Press Online now on trial TAGS: Newspapers | online | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh | war UK Press Online is now available on trial to University of Edinburgh users, accessible on campus or off campus via VPN via the eresources trials webpage. The trial ends on …Continue reading →

The Rescue that never was – remembering Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2013 TAGS: Church of England | Funk | Holocaust | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | war Holocaust Memorial Day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, and remembers those who died in the Holocaust and under Nazi persecution, and during subsequent genocides, …Continue reading →

Keeping the faith in wartime TAGS: Church of Scotland | Funk | Pamphlets | Remembrance | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | war A short New College  Act of Remembrance will take place on Friday 9th November at 1pm at the War Memorial in the corridor leading to the Assembly Hall. This item …Continue reading →