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Today was our manuscript workshop and it was a joy. A full day to discuss manuscripts, work on our palaeography, try out quills, and attempt to summon a demon (as instructed by one of our manuscripts)📚✍️🪶 EdinburghArtHistory

On This Day in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) was born in Edinburgh. Doyle also studied at The University of Edinburgh, here's the title page of his medical thesis, submitted April 1885 (pen & ink on paper). #OER Centre for Research Collections #SherlockHolmesDay images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s…

Join Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence, Rare Books and Literary Collections Curator, for a free lunchtime tour of the current exhibition 'Panoramas: the World in 360°' in the Main library Exhibition Gallery. Register to attend 👉 edin.ac/4avdYkz

Our brilliant interns Emily and Maddie are steadily going through two of the University's oldest archives sequences, making fascinating discoveries along the way. Read more about Emily's finds in our latest blog: libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/edinburghunive…

The first of our our free monthly exhibition tours takes place tomorrow at 1pm. Details and link to register below 👇

What's it like to volunteer in digital archives Centre for Research Collections? New blog post by Josh Blackstock on his experiences cleaning metadata for RESP Archive Project and cataloguing born-digital archives of Climate Change Engineer Prof Stephen Salter from School of Engineering > wp.me/p5j0gX-7n

In our new blog, Alice Fagan discusses the role of obstetrics and nursing in the missionary work of the RBMU in Peru. cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2024/06/obstet…

Alice has been working hard on our Regions Beyond journals for the World Christianity & Centre for Research Collections internship focusing on Latin American historic resources. She and Savannah, her fellow intern, have written a series of blogs for us during their internships. #archives #missions 👇

Our new dossier on Archiving Feminist and Queer Voices is just unfolding! Check out our blog! Centre for Research Collections ¡Europa Una! @mvbz_fuberlin gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/intr…

There's still time to register for tomorrow's free #curatorstour in the University of Edinburgh Main Library Exhibition Gallery. Sign up below or drop in at 1pm to learn more about the invention of the #panorama, its links with Edinburgh and the collections held by the University.

The last of our free curator-led exhibitions tours takes place at 1pm tomorrow in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery - drop-ins welcome.

When is a book not a book? When it's a peepshow 👀 Our peepshow, from around 1835, shows a view of the West Port and Edinburgh Castle and is part of our Rare Books collections 👉 discovered.ed.ac.uk/permalink/44UO… Contact Heritage Collections if you'd like access ed.ac.uk/is/heritage-co…

Did you know that Centre for Research Collections holds Eric Liddell’s 1924 Paris Olympic Medals? Liddell was a Scottish sprinter and University of Edinburgh alumni whose life is depicted in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. #ParisOlympics2024 #OER #EdUniDigitised open.ed.ac.uk/eric-liddell-o…

Join us on 31 July for a free online talk with Scott Wilcox. Scott, who came to The University of Edinburgh in 1974 before going on to Yale, returns to the topic of the panorama from his Edinburgh thesis. Register here to attend via Zoom: edin.ac/4din7ia

Explore the digital transformations of The University of Edinburgh from the early 1990s into the early 2000s through 'Preserving BITs' an online exhibition featuring the forensic recovery of BITs newsletter issues from legacy media by #DigiPres Intern Jasmine👉🏻exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/pr…

Read our new blog post by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement Team, who looks at a manuscript history of the Tower of London written by a political radical who was himself imprisoned in the Tower. libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/2…

Extended by popular demand, you can now visit our free University of Edinburgh Main Library exhibition 'Panoramas' until 2 November 2024. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-6pm.

Join us tomorrow at 1pm for the last of our free curator's tours of the University of Edinburgh Main Library exhibition 'Panoramas' Drop ins welcome - details if you'd like to register below edin.ac/3Abqaea

It's the final week for Panoramas! Visit the University of Edinburgh Main Library exhibition before it closes this Saturday, 2 November. Open daily 10am-6pm.