Treat or trick from the RSE Archive 🎃

Our Hallowe'en blog explores the RSE's links to Dr Robert Knox, the celebrated anatomist whose reputation was destroyed by his connection to Burke and Hare 👻 Read more here: rse.org.uk/resource/dr-...

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Presenting: the case for more bike parking on George Street #Edinburgh

Delighted our article 'Distilling the Past: Cataloguing the Records of Whyte & Mackay' has now been published in the Business & Industrial History journal, as part of a special issue celebrating the 200th anniversary of the 1823 Excise Act 🥃 More info: busarchscot.org.uk/journal/bih

The views from the reading room at @natlibscot.bsky.social 👌

Hot off the press! 📰 Interested in the newly acquired Charles Waterston Archive - a collection with over 7000 photographic slides? Read all about it in the @royalsoced.bsky.social's latest issue of ReSourcE: bitly.cx/Xo1q9

Some bonus favourites from digitisation so far ⬇️
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The subject of Bentley's first clerihew was the famed chemist and inventor of the miner's safety lamp, Sir Humphry Davy:

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

[Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy held by @royalsoced.bsky.social] (2/2)

Also, shout out to these cats for doing the essential job of pest control in the Library's early days 🐾

Val McDermid and Damian Barr (as #NLS100 Centenary Champions) sum up the morning by illustrating how vital libraries have been to them both, noting that you never know what you will find in a library that might spark a new and exciting idea ✨

Delighted to be at the #NLS100 celebrations, celebrating 100 years of curation, cataloguing + making Scotland's precious collections accessible. From Byron to the Beano, from Mary Queen of Scots' final letter to football programmes, the @natlibscot.bsky.social collection has something for everyone

Hi Bluesky! My first post so a bit about what you can expect: interesting archive finds, snippets from cycle rides, a bit of film photography, and thoughts about slow travel and the planet 🌎