Cleaning Dirty Pages – The Power of the Smoke Sponge
By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archive Collections Manager Moray House School of Education has a long and often complicated …Continue reading →
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Preserving People, Not Just Paper: My Internship Conserving the New College Collection
Today’s blog comes from Katherine Richey, an Edinburgh student who undertook a five-month internship with Heritage Collections from March to …Continue reading →
Read moreAn ever-green collaboration: working with the University of St Andrews to identify arsenical bookbindings
In this post conservator Amy Baldwin talks about working with the University of St Andrews to help develop their new …Continue reading →
Read moreGiving Decorated Paper a Home … Loose-leaf Material
In this post, Technician Robyn Rogers discusses her bespoke mounting and rehousing of loose-leaf papers from the University’s decorated paper …Continue reading →
Read moreManaging Collections: Edinburgh College of Art
One of our largest and most complex collections is that of the Edinburgh College of Art (hereafter named ECA). Transferred …Continue reading →
Read moreShuffling the Corson Collection
In this week’s blog Collections Management Technician Jasmine Hide talks about the rehousing, repitching, and condensing of the Corson collection, …Continue reading →
Read moreConserving calligraphy: preparing Esther Inglis’ manuscripts for digitisation
In this post book conservator Amy Baldwin talks about the conservation work undertaken on volumes appearing in the upcoming online …Continue reading →
Read moreSustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation …Continue reading →
Read moreLingerie, Giant Frisbees and Heavy Lifting: Tackling the ITI Collection at Edinburgh University
By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archives Collections Manager Several months ago, my colleague Jasmine Hide and I wrote two …Continue reading →
Read moreGiving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses her Decorated Paper rehousing …Continue reading →
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