Playfair Building ground floor plans 1908
Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V Imperatoris Medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 1725
1905 Illuminated congratulatory manuscript presented by the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
John Griffith Roberts certificate signed by Charles Bell 1872
Detail of 15th Century Book of Hours
Highlights from the RCSEd historical records.
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.…
Following from last year’s International Women’s Day blog on scientist Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald this year’s is following a similar pattern of raising awareness of lesser-known women whose research…
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.…