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Walter Scott & Revolution

An exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary of Scott's birth

Discover how Sir Walter Scott's best-selling novels and poems are a vivid and powerful response to a revolutionary era.
3O Years of the Carlyle Circle

Celebrating three decades of impact

To celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2020, we highlighted 30 gifts from the collections to show one of the many ways the University has been shaped by legacy giving.
Art and the Playfair Library

Speaking to absent volumes

An exhibition of 15 artist books by Edinburgh College of Art students in response to historic books in the University's collection.
Memories from the Royal Infirmary

Students and staff remember the historic hospital

Discover images and oral histories from the Lothian Health Services Archive
Scotland’s Oldest Book

Edinburgh’s Celtic Psalter

Discover the secrets hidden within this 11th century Book of Psalms
Mind Shift

Confronting a colonial collection

This exhibition spotlights contemporary historical, scientific and artistic research into this colonial collection.
Sea Change

Celebrating the groundbreaking expedition of HMS Challenger

Discover how a 19th-century warship became a scientific research vessel and laid the foundation for modern oceanography.

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