Guardbook
The Guardbook was the University Library’s last catalogue on paper, before computerisation. It was closed to new additions and amendments […]
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Victorian Caricature Visiting Cards
This is a small collection from the Centre for Research Collections, the University of Edinburgh, of twenty-one comic visiting cards […]
Read more19th-Century Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
David Octavius Hill (1802-70), a painter-photographer from Perth, and Robert Adamson (1821-48), from Burnside near St Andrew’s, paired up to […]
Read moreCharles Lyell’s Notebooks and Videos
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was a geologist whose work helped to found the modern notion of geology and geologic time […]
Read moreRobert Rowand Anderson’s Architectural Drawings
The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections has digitised a collection of architectural drawings from the office of Sir […]
Read more“An epoch in history” – Charles Lyell in Nova Scotia 1842
We are delighted to welcome Tim Fedak – a Curator and Palaeontologist based at Nova Scotia Museum – to our …Continue reading →
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 23rd : Christmas Cowboy
Celebrating Christmas 1904, this illustration from the Roslin Glass Slides collection shows an American cowboy riding a bucking bronco with […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 17th: Elk/Deer in the snow
A beautiful festive illustration of three elk or deer with large antlers foraging for food in the snow. This image […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 15th: Wet and weary Father Christmas
A warm welcome for a wet and weary Father Christmas, from an 1872 edition of Punch magazine.Punch, or The London […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 13th: Here be monsters!
This fearsome sea monster and the unfortunate ship it’s terrorising can be found in the Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas. Digitised by the […]
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