One of the great pleasures of working with archives is the propensity they have to surprise. Hidden amongst the vast records of organisations, or the more petite collections of individuals, you…
Published April 22, 2015 by Karla Baker
Published April 13, 2015 by Grant Buttars
In the academic year 1907/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh. This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston…
Published April 9, 2015 by Karla Baker
The composition of the Fairbairn Archive is rich, with a wide variety of materials from manuscripts to typescripts and photographs to correspondence. However, amongst the most striking of all the documents are a collection of dream drawings,…