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New College Cartoon: Blik's 7

 Collection
Identifier: GD59
Scope and Contents Series of five cartoon strips entitled 'Blik's 7' based on the artwork of Muir Donaldson and satirical and creative work of Bill Armstrong, Andrew MacLean and Bryan Low, who were all students at New College Edinburgh. At the time of their creation, the strips were intended to be anonymous. The cartoons satirise theologians and Christianity in general. The five cartoon strips are: 1. "Blik's 7. Genesis" 2. "Blick's 7. Exodus" 3. "Blyk's 7. Levitical Wars" 4. "Blyq's 7. The Numbers Game"...
Dates: 1978 - 1979
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

New map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework, 1797

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1111
Scope and Contents

The map is entitled A New Map of Scotland for Ladies Needlework. The title is at the top of the map and the text is encircled by greenery and tartan and supported by a Highlander. It is noted as published in London by Laurie and Whittle, No.53 Fleet Street, 1797. The map is colour tinted and is presented in an oval setting. The rolled sheet is approximately 45cm x 50 cm.

Dates: 1797
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

New Testament annotated by Henry Drummond, FRSE (1851-1897)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DRU 2
Scope and Contents

An extensively annotated copy of The New Testament... Translated out of the Original Greek. Pearl reference testament, octavo format. 190 pages. Published in Glasgow by W. Collins, Sons and Co.

Bearing Henry Drummond's signature on the flyleaf.

Interleaved with a folded sheet of nonsense poetry entitled "Mr. Nobody"

Dates: c.1870-1895
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper articles, 'Diary Extracts' by Rev, Alex Caseby, Malawi, 1977

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 64
Scope and Contents

6 pages of newspaper cuttings written by Rev. Alex Caseby adhered to A4 paper. The newspaper cuttings were part of a series called Diary extracts, describing live in Livingtstonia, Malawi.

Dates: 1967
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Newspaper cuttings about Flora MacDonald’s faith

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCD 2
Scope and Contents

Notebook titled: 'Was Flora Macdonald a Presbyterian or an Episcopalian?'

Cuttings from "The Oban Times" 8 July 1922 to 18 April 1923. Correspondence and journalistic focus commemorate the bicentenary of Macdonald's birth.

Each clipping is accompanied by a date in ink, and sometimes further annotations. Manuscript title page bears the stamp of the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1922-1923
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper cuttings of ‘The Holm Case’ relating to Rev John Pettigrew, United Presbyterian minister, Holm, Orkney

 Fonds
Identifier: MS PET 2
Scope and Contents Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on‘The Holm Case’, relating to Rev. John Pettigrew, United Presbyterian minister, Holm, Orkney. The case was one of libel following a conflict with presbytery elders, where Pettigrew was accused of inappropriate behaviour and discourse by a number of the presbytery. The moderator, Rev. Robert Reid of Firth, found Pettigrew guilty, and he was suspended from his duties. Octavo volume with 70 numbered leaves. Newspaper columns are pasted to the recto...
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper cuttings of the Jubilee of the Free Church of Scotland, 1893

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DISR
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings on the Jubilee Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, May 1893. Additional cuttings loosely inserted.

Dates: 1893
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Newspaper cuttings on disestablishment, 1874-1893

 Fonds
Identifier: MS DISE
Scope and Contents

Two volumes of newspaper cuttings, including sections from 'The Scotsman' and 'The Nonconformist' newspapers.

1. Newspaper cuttings on the subject of the Disestablishment of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland. 1874-1878. Folio.

2. Newspaper cuttings on the subject of the Disestablishment of the Church of Scotland. 1890-1893. Folio.

Dates: 1874-1893
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

NHS Lothian

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB56
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the NHS Lothian Board, and NHS Lothian publications (for staff, from the Public Health and Health Policy and Equality and Human Rights directorates.

Dates: 2001-2026
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Norman MacCaig at the Burn, Edzell, and correspondence with Trudy Wallace

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1640
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: Folder 1: 1 x ts letter, 1p, dated 15 December 1982, from Marga E. Schmitz to 'Dear Mr MacCaig' laying out the agenda for the DAAD weekend and offering board and lodging and an honorarium 1 x ms letter, autograph signed, 1p, dated 21 February 1983, from Norman MacCaig to 'Dear Miss Wallace' indicating that he will arrive by train at Montrose and...
Dates: 1982-1983
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 7
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 7
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (author and Traveller) 5
University of Edinburgh. Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Church of Scotland (1560-) 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (Folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 3