Detail of 15th Century Book of Hours
Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V Imperatoris Medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 1725
Playfair Building ground floor plans 1908
John Griffith Roberts certificate signed by Charles Bell 1872
1905 Illuminated congratulatory manuscript presented by the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
Highlights from the RCSEd historical records.
The Wellcome Trust have recently introduced a Research Bursaries scheme to support researchers wishing to work on library or archive collections which have been catalogued and preserved through a Wellcome Trust Research Resources Grant.…
The Meckel Collection, comprising around 8000 anatomical specimens and housed at the University of Halle in Germany, is said to “rank among the largest and most important of its kind in Europe”.…
Over the past couple of months our fantastic volunteer Arturo has been arranging, rehousing and cataloguing the Archive of the Royal Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland. His work forms part of the Wellcome Trust funded project to make the archive collections held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh more accessible.…
In recent years there has been a significant effort to recover the stories of women in science and medicine, both those who were never recognised in their time and those who were, but have been largely forgotten.…
The archive of the Extramural School of Medicine has now been catalogued as part of our Wellcome- supported project, and the collection, for the most part, is available to researchers. The multi-level…