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 A 'Scottish School of Educational Research', 1925-1950
In January 2006 Special Collections became involved in an ESRC project which aims to construct an intellectual history of education and the intelligence concept, technology and practice in Scotland between 1925 and 1950, and demonstrate the profound and enduring influences of this Scottish School on world educational and psychological research. Through the project several groups of newly discovered archival materials have been preserved and described.
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 Unlocking the MD: cataloguing Edinburgh's MD Theses (1726-1930)
The University of Edinburgh has been a major centre of medical education for more than 270 years, and the MD theses give unparalleled insight into developments in medical history. For that reason, the MD theses are a historical resource of great significance. By making high-quality MARC records available online via the Library catalogue, Unlocking the MD will make our collection known to a wider and more diverse range of academic scholars and medical professionals. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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 Walter Scott Digital Archive
Designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections, the Digital Archive has established itself as the main online information source on one of Scotland's greatest writers. In addition to detailed pages on Scott's life and works, the site offers an Image Collection of Scott-related art and realia, an illustrated guide to portraits of Scott, an annotated bibliography of recent research, a guide to forthcoming events (and an archive of past events), and a comprehensive guide to Scott-related web pages and e-texts.
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Ars Anatomica: Imaging the Renaissance Body
Vesalius's 'De humani corporis', 1543, and the diffusion of its illustrations in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. The purpose of the project is to signal the existence of, and to encourage research on, some of the most important books on human anatomy in the collections of Edinburgh University Library and the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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 Christine de Pizan: The making of the Queen's manuscript
Ever wondered what French was like during the life of Joan of Arc? At Agincourt, when Henry V claimed the throne of France? What was the written French that William Caxton wrestled with when he brought printing from the Continent? Imagine French with no apostrophes, no accents, no commas and no full stops! Imagine that time, just before printing, when thought and creativity were finding new expression in the lavishly illuminated books of Paris and the beautiful, yet politically engaged, poetry of Christine de Pizan.
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 Carmichael Watson project
The Carmichael Watson collection, centred on the papers of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912), is the foremost collection of its kind in the country, and is crucial to understanding the customs, storytelling traditions, poetry, songs and general lore of the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. It offers us fundamental insights into the creation of Carmina Gadelica. But the collection also offers exciting potential for interdisciplinary cooperation, learning and research throughout the local and scholarly communities, covering history, theology, literary criticism, philology, place-names, archaeology, botany and environmental studies. This project will undertake cataloguing, indexing, transcribing, translating, digitisation, dissemination and collaboration.
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