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Changing Tracks (ish)
Well, I won’t say that my internship was a smashing success, but it was enjoyable and I was able to make a real contribution to the project. Problems arose around the amount of work I was allowed to do per week based on how much I was getting paid, which was not much, leading to there […]
Map Library Madness
Things are slow in the research world. I feel a bit like I’ve been trying to swim through hummus, where every little task takes so much more effort than anticipated. I’m attempting to compile a checklist of maps that Andrew Millar was involved in either commissioning or selling… This doesn’t sound that difficult but really, […]
Andrew Millar: An Introduction
My first task as a research assistant was to go through the microfilm of the Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (1554-1920) and find all of the publications that Andrew Millar owned copyright to, and create a spreadsheet with the information from that combined with information available on the English Short Title Catalogue, the […]
An Epistle to my Dear Readers concerning some matters personal and professional
My Dearest Readers, Perhaps an explanation for my long absence is necessary. The final few months of grad school were pretty intense and I worked extremely hard. My academic internship was over and I let the blog slide into near oblivion as I focused on my dissertation. I was examining disputes among medical professionals at […]
A Weekend At Wellcome
Things are moving along at the same pace as always here in Edinburgh, minus the internship, thus the lull in blogging. Until the last couple of weeks I had been spending a day or two every week at the Sibbald Library doing research for my dissertation. Over the last few weeks I had a flurry […]
End of an Era
Rather unexpectedly today was my last day as intern at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh’s Sibbald Library. I’m a little sad about it! I have long since fulfilled the minimum course requirement of 14 days, and have two amazing projects under my belt, and there is simply nothing else for me to do. […]
The Minutes and Me; or, Another Day of Research
Research. That one word precisely sums up everything I did at the Sibbald Library today. I went back over some of the minutes, as I said I would in my last post, and then finished typing up my notes for Iain to use in a paper he’s presenting at the International Cullen Symposium in April. […]
A Multitude of Minutes
I spent the entire day on Friday going through minutes from RCPE meetings from the mid to late 18th century – all the years Cullen was a Fellow of the RCPE. There were several meetings each year and some of the entries are pages and pages long while some are just part of a page. […]
Enter Stage Left: William Cullen
With the cane project basically complete I was set to begin researching the large collection of busts that the College has. These busts are mostly of presidents of the RCPE from the 18th and 19th centuries, with the odd RCPE Fellow thrown in, as well as a few classical figures. However, that is a massive […]
Research Project Abstract
An event that has proved endlessly interesting to me occurred in 1793, not far from the flat I now let. Two fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) got into a row on High Street. If you have perused this blog at all you will have seen bits about the event and […]
The Tagalong Historian 