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In a week when Mount Etna is erupting & we mark the 146yr anniversary of Sir Charles Lyell's death (14 Nov 1797-22 Feb1875) - we welcome Senior Lyell Archivist, Elaine MacGillivray, as she reflects on Lyell's contribution to our understanding of the world wp.me/pcnwkP-4z
ALT Detail of drawing and water-colour illustration of Mount Etna erupting, c.1830, from the Sir Charles Lyell archive collections at the Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh (Ref: Coll-203/Uncat)
Charles Lyell’s 1828 study of thick layers of oyster fossils between layers of lava on Mt. Etna were key to his theories around geological time. Lyell's observations at #Etna were part of a revelatory shift in our understanding of time/our place in the universe. (Coll-203 Uncat.)
ALT A hand-drawn map of Mount Etna from above during an eruption, done in red, blue, and black watercolour ink and pen.
Charles Lyell's papers and notebooks are currently the subject of an archives cataloguing project at the CRC. Read more and follow our progress here: edin.ac/3dpK6w8 @cockburngeol @GeosciencesEd @EdUniLibraries @CRC_EdUni
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Join us on 10 December for a virtual behind-the-scenes look at the geological collection of Sir Charles Lyell and his connection with #Darwin and #climatechange research.
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Halloween won't be the same this year but here are some ideas to inspire you. Have some frightening fun with our beastly books!!! #Halloween2020 #books #fun #creative
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#AudioVisualHeritage is more than just moving images 📽️ or sounds 📼 – it's a part of our identity.
On World #AudiovisualHeritageDay, let’s keep on discovering & sharing the heritage that that connects our past, present and future & makes us who we are!
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📣New blog post from the Lyell Project📣 What did Charles Lyell, the great Victorian geologist, take with him into the field nearly 200 years ago? libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/lye…
☀️Trip to the sea today with #Lyell ☀️
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Cataloguing work in the stores on Lyell has recommenced! See the thread for revelations!
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📢New Blog post📢 Update on discoveries in the #Lyell Collection #Dante #blogpost #archives #poesia #DivinaCommedia libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/lye…
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Have you heard of EdHelp? It's our brilliant new service that brings together Library, IT, finance and student admin information into one place. Have a look! --> ed.ac.uk/edhelp
#EdHelp #WelcomeWeek #EdWelcome #EdWelcome20 ed.ac.uk/edhelp
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Here's a lovely postcard of 'Old Scone Village, near Perth' from circa 1907.
#Archivesathome
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It's lovely welcoming students back to @EdUniMainLib this week! CRC is still running an appointments-only service so get in touch if you'd like to come and see gems like this beautiful photo of the Main Library when it was constructed (EUA Acc.2009/001) edin.ac/3hCW7No
A donation of 19th-century photographs of Scotland and Geneva came in at @CRC_EdUni today - including this great photo of the Forth Bridge being built in 1888. Fascinating!
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N is for the North Edinburgh School of Nursing!
This page is from a booklet designed to provide more information to prospective nursing students (Ref: Acc 09/023)
#ArchiveZ #Edinburgh #HistoryOfNursing #Nursing #YearOfTheNurseAndMidwife
Thanks to our cataloguing system ArchivesSpace, we are still able to publish new finding aids online from home! The latest one is for the Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (Coll-1036), Scottish musician and folk-songs collector: tinyurl.com/MKFboxlist
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Another series of #ArchivesChat for @ICArchiv #InternationalArchivesWeek, this time talking about the importance of archives and other topics with @garyjwest
The series can be found on the channel with @euarchives here: tinyurl.com/ya7qlp7x #IAW2020
For the third #IAW2020 #ArchiveChat, we heard from archivist Lorraine McLoughlin about the University's new collection initiative edin.ac/30BMXvy #UoECollectingCOVID #AnArchiveIs