{"id":340,"date":"2012-08-13T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T14:20:10","slug":"new-college-library-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/08\/13\/new-college-library-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"New College Library Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_341\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/libraryhall1946.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-341\" title=\"New College Library Hall1946\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/libraryhall1946.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/libraryhall1946.jpg 1685w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/libraryhall1946-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/libraryhall1946-1024x759.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from the New College Archive of New College Library as it appeared in 1946<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that New College Library holds significant collections of archives and manuscripts?<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0 collections include the papers of Thomas Chalmers, J.H. Oldham, James S. Stewart and Norman W. Porteous.\u00a0 Hidden among the older archives are gems such as the\u00a0 last speech and testimony of the covenanter James Renwick (1662-1688).\u00a0 The Archives also include a New College Archive which includes group photographs of students and staff, and of the New College buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Recently added to our collections are the papers of Rev Tom Allan (1916-1965), Rev. Professor Alec Campbell Cheyne (1924-2006), Rev. Professor John McIntyre (1916-2005), and the Very Rev Professor James Whyte (1920-2005). The listing of these papers was funded by a generous bequest from the estate of Rev. Professor Alec Campbell Cheyne .<\/p>\n<p>See the <a title=\"New College Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/subject-guides\/divinity\/new-collee-archives\">New College Archives<\/a> web page to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that New College Library holds significant collections of archives and manuscripts? These\u00a0 collections include the papers of Thomas Chalmers, J.H. Oldham, James S. Stewart and Norman W. Porteous.\u00a0 Hidden among the older archives are gems such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/08\/13\/new-college-library-archives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[15,19,46,49,57,103,104,109,131,138,182,184,187],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}