Playfair Building ground floor plans 1908
Detail of 15th Century Book of Hours
John Griffith Roberts certificate signed by Charles Bell 1872
1905 Illuminated congratulatory manuscript presented by the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V Imperatoris Medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 1725
Highlights from the RCSEd historical records.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, this post will highlight stories from the archive of refugee medical students who either had, or were attempting to flee Nazi Europe, and who sought to obtain…
‘That each Apprentice who should be convicted of raising or attempting to raise the dead from their graves should forfeit their Freedom, and all privilege competent to them by their indentures and be extruded their Master’s Service’ (Act of the Surgeon Apothecaries, April 17, 1725)…
As part of a Wellcome Trust project, we recently digitised thousands of our early manuscripts which we have been uploading to view through our online catalogue. While the majority of these manuscripts span the 16th-18th centuries, we have also digitised our 1830s architectural plans of the current RCSEd building on Nicolson Street.…
Our guest blog post is from Marieke Hendriksen, a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. Marieke will be joining us in October here at the RCSEd Library and Archive on a Wellcome Trust Research Bursary.…
We are delighted to announce that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Institutional Archive is now available to researchers, with thousands of records now digitally available for the first time, and catalogued to item-level.…