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A
- Abbreviations (General)
- Abbreviations (Journals)
- Adam, Robert
- Addresses, Business
- Adorno, Theodore
- Adult literacy
- Africa
- Agriculture
- Aid
- Albania
- Alcohol & Alcoholism
- Allan, Andrew
- Alumni
- American Revolution
- Anderson, Sir James
- Architects & Architecture & Architectural drawings and plans
- Archivist & Archives
- Art & Artists
- Articles (end-notes in; cited references)
- Arts
- Assam (India / Archives)
- Asylum
- Atlantic cable
- Auerbach, Charlotte
- Australia
- Awards - for study
B
- BAILII
- Baillie, John (1886-1960)
- Barry, James Miranda
- Beckett, Samuel
- Bees
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Benjamin, Walter
- Bibliography
- Biography
- Births
- Bohemian Protest
- Bohr, Niels et al (Copenhagen)
- Book Trade Index (Scottish)
- Books
- Boyle Family (Collaborative artists)
- Breive
- Brex, John Twells
- British Standards Institute
- Buchanan, George
- Burr, John
- Business & Commerce
C
- Cabinetmaker, Morison and Co.
- Calabar missionaries
- Calvin Translation Society
- Cambridge, resident of
- Cameron Prize
- Canada, and Canadian Studies
- Canning, Sir Samuel
- Cantabrigian
- Care
- Careers - Graduate
- Cast iron products - Thos. Gibson
- Caucuses - US elections
- Celtic brooch
- Census - India
- Census - UK/Scotland
- Chancellors (Edinburgh University)
- Children's literature
- China
- Christians in Jerusalem
- Church of Scotland
- Church(es)
- Cities
- Cited references (in end-notes of an article)
- Citing electronic references
- Citing from books and journals
- Coat-of-Arms
- Cockmylane (Edinburgh)
- Cockmylane (West Lothian)
- Command papers
- Commerce
- Communications & Transport
- Computers and IT
- Confetti
- Cooper, Grey
- Copenhagen (Niels Bohr et al)
- Cornwall
- Corruption
- Costliest cities in the world
- Crime & Prisons
- Curglaff
- Curgloff
D
- Dalquharran
- Dates
- Dawson, Christopher
- Deaths
- Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
- Definitions
- Degrees
- Denmark
- Dictionary & Dictionaries
- Dramatists
- Drummond, George (Lord Provost of Edinburgh)
- Drugs
E
- Economy
- Edinburgh
- Edinburgh business and commerce
- Editorship of Journals
- Education
- Elections - Scotland
- Elections - UK
- Elections - US
- Elections - World
- Electoral register
- Electoral roll
- Electronic references
- Electronic style guide
- Emblems of Scotland
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Encyclopaedias & 'Encyclopaedic' questions
- End-notes in an article (cited references)
- Energy
- English language, study of
- Environment
- Ethnic & Race relations
- European Union - Fontainebleau Summit
- European Union - General statistics
- Exam papers
- Exports
F
- Facts, General
- Facts and figures, University Statistics and
- Famous staff
- Famous students
- Film
- First names
- Fish & Fish catches
- Flags (Scottish)
- Fontainebleau Summit
- Food
- Forestry
- Forth Bridge
- Francis Barnett, Glass-stainer
- Frankfurt School
- French (law) statutes and regulations
- Fuel
- Funding postgraduate study
G
- Gaelic, Scottish
- Genealogy
- Gibson, Thomas - Cast iron products
- Girdle books
- Glass-stainers, Francis Barnett
- Gogar
- Gold prices
- Gooch, Sir Daniel
- Government & Elections
- Graduate -Careers
- Graduates of the University
- Great Britain's Weekly Pacquet
- Great Eastern (Ship)
H
- Hallard (Family name)
- Hansard
- Hardyknute
- Health (Denmark)
- Health (Sweden)
- Health (UK / Scotland)
- Heraldry
- Holocaust
- Holy See
- House of Commons papers
- Households - Survey
- Human Ecology Library (obsolete)
- Hus, Jan
- Hutton Inquiry
I
- Immigration
- Independence (Scottish)
- India (Assam / Archives)
- India (Population / Census)
- Inquiries
- Inter-Library Loan
- International Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884
- International Law
- International Standards
- Inverness Journal (Newspaper)
- ISBN
- IT and Computers
J
- Jamieson, F
- Jamieson, John
- Jemmy
- Jerusalem
- Jewish community
- Journals (including Editorship of Journals)
K
L
- Land reformers
- Languages & Literature
- Latin mottoes
- Law
- Lawrence, Stephen (Inquiry)
- Lawrie, Hamish
- Librarians (Edinburgh University Library)
- Libraries
- Literacy
- Little France
- Lord Provosts (Edinburgh)
- Low, David
M
- Mac and Mc (Part of Family name)
- Manifestos - Political parties
- Marochetti, Baron Carlo (1805-1867)
- Matriculation books and records
- Mc and Mac
- McBride, Dr. Peter
- McGregor, Margaret
- McGregor, Margaret T.
- Meldrum, George
- Memorials, University
- Millennial Plaques, University
- Minister of War, 1962
- Ministers
- Missionaries, Africa
- Moot Papers
- MORI polls
- Morison and Co., Cabinetmaker
- Mottoes
- Murdoch, John (1818-1903)
- Music
N
- Nairn, Duncan
- Names
- National Archives of India
- National Encyclopaedia
- Nationalism
- Neues Deutschland
- Newspapers (UK / Foreign)
- Nicol, Margaret
- Nicol, Margaret T.
- Nobel prize winners
- Nothern Ireland
O
P
- Paderewski Hospital
- Paflagonia
- Papal documents
- Park (a park of)
- Parliament (Scottish)
- Parliament (Women in)
- Parliamentary papers
- Parliamentary reports
- Parliaments (National)
- Paton, Waller Hugh
- Philosophy
- Pigot and Co. (Slater's Directory)
- Placenames
- Plaid brooch
- Plaques, University
- Playfair, W. H.
- Playfair Monument
- Polidori, John William
- Political party manifestos
- Politics (Scotland)
- Polls
- Population - India
- Population - UK/Scotland
- Population - World
- Postal directory - Business
- Power
- Prisons & Crime
- Pritchard, Professor Urban
- Provosts, Lord (Edinburgh)
- Public inquiries
- Publishers & Publishing
Q
R
- Race & Ethnic relations
- Rampant lion
- Ramsay, Robert
- Rattray, Dr.
- Rectors (Edinburgh University)
- Refugees
- Regent Terrace, Edinburgh
- Regional newspapers
- Research
- Research in UK
- Research Assessment Exercise / RAE / University League Tables
- Research proposal / Writing a research proposal
- Rollock, Robert
- Romans
- Ross, Catherine
- Rostowski, Jakub
- Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
S
- Sacred music (Scottish)
- Saddler, John
- Scandinavia
- Scotland's Churches
- Scot's Magazine
- Scottish archaeological journals
- Scottish Book Trade Index
- Scottish flags
- Scottish independence
- Scottish Parliament
- Scottish politics
- Scottish sacred music
- Scottish tartans
- Scottish thistle
- Sculptors
- Sea
- Sho'ah
- Shoulder brooch
- Shoulder pin
- Silver prices
- Slater's Directory (Pigot and Co.)
- Smoking
- Social services
- Spain
- Spence, Sir Basil (University Library, Edinburgh)
- Staff of the University
- Standards
- Statistics (General)
- Stedman, Edgar
- Stephen Lawrence (Inquiry)
- Street, Edinburgh
- Student Charities, University
- Students (Famous)
- Study awards
- Sturgess (Family name)
- Sturgis (Family name)
- Style guide
- SunSITE
- Surnames
- Surveys
- Sweden
- Symbols
T
- Tartan
- Telephone numbers, Businesses
- Television
- Terror, The. At Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen
- Theatre
- Theses
- Thistle of Scotland
- Thomas, Sir Dalby
- Thomas Gibson & Sons - Cast iron products
- Toff
- Tourism
- Translations & Translation studies
- Transport & Communications
- Traquair, Harry Moss
- Travel
- Treaties
- Treaty of Edinburgh, 1560
- Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton, 1328
- Trotter (Family name)
- Turkey
- Tytler, Alexander Fraser
U
- UK - General statistics
- UK - Population
- Universities
- University Alumni / Graduates of the University / Famous students
- University Archivist / Archives
- University Chancellors
- University Exam papers
- University League Tables / Research Assessment Exercise
- University Librarians
- University Library, Edinburgh (Spence, Sir Basil)
- University Millennial Plaques
- University Rectors
- University Staff
- University Statistics
- University Student Charities
- University Students
- US newspapers in UK
- US primaries
- USA
V
W
- Waddington Environment Library (obsolete)
- Walley Prize
- Watson, Sir William
- Waulking songs
- Weekly Pacquet (Great Britain's)
- West Lothian
- Williams, G.
- Woodhouselee, Lord (Alexander Fraser Tytler)
- Women
- Women (UK Archives relating to)
- Women in Parliament
- Women's Library
- Writing a bibliography
- Writing a research proposal


