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We preserve, provide access to and interpret the Cultural Heritage of @EdinburghUni - archives, art, manuscripts, museums, musical instrument, rare books
Edinburgh, UK
Joined August 2013
It's the final week for Panoramas! Visit the @EdUniMainLib exhibition before it closes this Saturday, 2 November. Open daily 10am-6pm.
For the first time in 200 years, see Robert and Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of Edinburgh in 360° - now showing in our free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery. Open Mon-Thurs, 10am-6pm. Video animation by @ediucreate Makerspace Student Technician Zita Takacs
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Join us tomorrow at 1pm for the last of our free curator's tours of the @EdUniMainLib exhibition 'Panoramas' Drop ins welcome - details if you'd like to register below https://t.co/B7CQpLODjX
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Extended by popular demand, you can now visit our free @EdUniMainLib exhibition 'Panoramas' until 2 November 2024. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-6pm.
For the first time in 200 years, see Robert and Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of Edinburgh in 360° - now showing in our free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery. Open Mon-Thurs, 10am-6pm. Video animation by @ediucreate Makerspace Student Technician Zita Takacs
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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
In this post, Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement Team, looks at a manuscript history of the Tower of London written by a political radical who was himself imprisoned in the Tower.
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Explore the digital transformations of @EdinburghUni 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👉🏻 https://t.co/CuQ29GuJjk
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk
This exhibition traces the history of BIT s magazine – a quarterly newsletter sharing developments in technology to support learning, teaching, and…
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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 👉 https://t.co/zXI3Gr0cXS Contact Heritage Collections if you'd like access https://t.co/thgxD8Bwa5
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Did you know that @CRC_EdUni 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
https://t.co/IN32LskZSz
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Paris Olympics 2024 are underway with the opening ceremony tonight and medal fever starting to ramp up, which makes it an excellent time to look at some 1924 Paris Olympic medals in our own collect...
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Join us on 31 July for a free online talk with Scott Wilcox. Scott, who came to @EdinburghUni in 1974 before going on to Yale, returns to the topic of the panorama from his Edinburgh thesis. Register here to attend via Zoom: https://t.co/eyjPvQZWg9
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The last of our free curator-led exhibitions tours takes place at 1pm tomorrow in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery - drop-ins welcome.
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 👉 https://t.co/dCrlz763NQ
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There's still time to register for tomorrow's free #curatorstour in the @EdUniMainLib 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.
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 👉 https://t.co/dCrlz763NQ
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Our new dossier on Archiving Feminist and Queer Voices is just unfolding! Check out our blog! @CRC_EdUni @UnaEuropa @mvbz_fuberlin
https://t.co/djP9y2com9
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Alice has been working hard on our Regions Beyond journals for the @CSWCEdinburgh & @CRC_EdUni 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 👇
In our new blog, Alice Fagan discusses the role of obstetrics and nursing in the missionary work of the RBMU in Peru. https://t.co/Cv8vxUZoZE
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In our new blog, Alice Fagan discusses the role of obstetrics and nursing in the missionary work of the RBMU in Peru. https://t.co/Cv8vxUZoZE
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What's it like to volunteer in digital archives @CRC_EdUni? New blog post by Josh Blackstock on his experiences cleaning metadata for @RESP_Archive and cataloguing born-digital archives of Climate Change Engineer Prof Stephen Salter from @SchoolOfEng_UoE > https://t.co/A0SuS3PWFm
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The first of our our free monthly exhibition tours takes place tomorrow at 1pm. Details and link to register below 👇
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 👉 https://t.co/dCrlz763NQ
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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: https://t.co/lCMwyVkUsK
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On This Day in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) was born in Edinburgh. Doyle also studied at @EdinburghUni, here's the title page of his medical thesis, submitted April 1885 (pen & ink on paper). #OER @CRC_EdUni #SherlockHolmesDay
https://t.co/sEQFveV629
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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 👉 https://t.co/dCrlz763NQ
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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)📚✍️🪶 @EdiArtHistory
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If you'd like to view the rest of MS DRU2, or any of the other collections held at the New College Library, please email heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk to book an appointment. We can't wait to welcome you in!
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