William Henry Playfair’s Architectural Plans of RCSEd, Nicolson Street

Tags: Architecture, Edinburgh, RCSEd Institutional Archive, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeons' Hall Museums

William Henry Playfair’s Architectural Plans of RCSEd, Nicolson Street

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.…

Preserving and modelling the body: technique in anatomical practice and visual arts at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1700-1850

Tags: Anatomists, Artists, Edinburgh, RCSEd Institutional Archive, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall Museums

Preserving and modelling the body: technique in anatomical practice and visual arts at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1700-1850

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.…

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

Tags: Edinburgh, Elsie Inglis, Extramural Teaching, Lothian Surgical Audit, Medical Students, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh, Society of Barbers, Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall Museums, Surgery, TQ, Wellcome Trust

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

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.…

Forensic reconstruction of the ECA Skull

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Forensic reconstruction of the ECA Skull

This week’s blog is written by Gillian Taylor, Forensic Artist and friend of the Museum. Gillian’s forensic reconstruction work for the Word of Mouth project gave new and valuable insight into the identity of the ECA skull, revealing appearance, gender and age.…