It’s finally here, the most anticipated event of the year…
it’s the LHSA Christmas Blog!
This festive season we have been participating in the ARA
Scotland #ArchiveAdventCalendar. Each day of December from the 1st
to the 24th was assigned a topic and our task was to Tweet a picture
and ask people to guess what was behind the #ArchiveAdventDoor.
Although medical archives are possibly not your first
thought when you think of Christmas we were able to find images for the
majority of the topics throughout the month from our photograph collections,
hospital magazines and Christmas cards and in this blog we will show off some
of our favourites.
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| Craigleith in the Snow, GD1/62/3 |
In this picture you can see a snow covered Craigleith. In
1917 Craigleith would have been home to the Second General Military Hospital
after Craigleith Hospital was requisitioned by the army during the First World War.
The image comes from Alice Grant’s photo album: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/collections/GD1_62/gd1_62_index.htm
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| Curling at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, GD16 |
Next is an image which comes from our Physician
Superintendents of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital collection (GD16) and shows a
game of curling on the grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Both patients
and staff played curling together and references to the games can be found in
editions of the hospital magazine the Morningside Mirror: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/collections/LHB7/LHB7.pdf
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| Bruntsfield ward with Christmas decorations, LHB8/17/3/4 |
From our Bruntsfield Hospital collection we found a
photograph showing staff and patients in a ward full of Christmas decorations. In
the foreground is a snowman that scared a few people on Twitter!
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| Group of nurses holding Christmas drinks and sweets, LHB4/4/7/11 |
Last of all is a photograph of nurses from Chalmers Hospital
holding a selection of Christmas treats. If you can manage to move your eyes away from
the chocolate and drinks you can see that there was still a chance to get one
of your five a day from the bowl of fruit on offer.
We hope you enjoyed the selection of some of our favourite
Christmas images from across our collections.
Make sure you follow #ArchiveAdventCalendar and #ArchiveAdventDoor
for more from LHSA and archives across Scotland!
And most importantly of all the LHSA team would like to wish
you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
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