Monday, 14 April 2025

Conservation (4): Production of Surrogates and Substitutes

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In LHSA, we strive to give our different service users access to our varied collections. However, there are cases when collection items are ...
Friday, 4 April 2025

Tales from the Archive (4): Treatments for Tuberculosis - The Edinburgh Scheme

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly contagious disease, usually affecting the lungs but which can attack other parts of the body. It is spread thr...
Monday, 31 March 2025

Spotlight On… (5): Letters from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh had an indisputable reputation as a leading medical institution. Medi...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Tom Baker visits the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children

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Stephen Willis,  Archive & Library Assistant at the Centre for Research Collections,  writes about Tom Baker’s visit to the Royal Edinbu...
Friday, 21 March 2025

Conservation (3): Bound Volumes and Architectural Plans

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LHSA collections encompass a wide array of items that require specialised conditioning and conservation treatment: volumes of all sorts, loo...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Spotlight On… (4): Dr Elizabeth Robertson, Consultant Physician, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

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The Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) celebrated the 200th anniversary of its first patient intake in 2013. In readiness for this, LHSA staff w...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Tales from the Archive (3): Women and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1870-1950

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This was a period of huge change in medicine, and with the opening of the then brand new building at Lauriston Place in 1879, the Royal Infi...