Friends of Edinburgh University Library event with the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall - ‘A Concord of Sweet Sounds’ - The Dolmetsch Lute Book in Context and Performance: Eric Thomas - 7 September 2026, 18:00 at St Cecilia's Hall: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/08/02/a... #LuteConcert #Edinburgh 🎶

‘A Concord of Sweet Sounds’ -The Dolmetsch Lute Book in Context and Performance: Eric Thomas

A Joint event with the Friends of the Edinburgh University Library and the Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall To be held at St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Monday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00…

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If you're in Edinburgh and eager to join the conversation in person, we do hope you'll join for the opening lecture by Adrian Johns--"Registers and the Dream of Universal Information: A Selective History"--on Monday evening (20th July), 6pm, at Augustine United Church.

Reposting with the #BookHistory tag as well. Thank you, friends!

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bluesky Lit Crit pals, some inspiration please! Most interesting scenes set in book-shops or in circulating libraries in #18thc and #19thc British literature?

This free exhibition runs until the 28th June, showcasing Jill’s meticulous work in tracing lost stones from the former Trinity Collegiate Church, which once stood just below Calton Hill. #lostedinburghchurches #medievaledinburgh #royalmile #citymuseums #chalmersclose

Reviving the Trinity Stones: Exhibition Announcement for 2026 - The Old Edinburgh Club

Jill Harrison announces her Reviving the Trinity Stones Exhibition at the Edinburgh Museum and Outreach programme for 2026

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Got my contributor's copy of Volume I, Part II of the excellent 'Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland'! (Part I is so popular that @edinburghup.bsky.social is already reprinting it! Part II has my contribution in it so I'm happy for now - lots of fun reading to do!) 📖✒️

CFP: Hogg’s Worlds Now 2–4 July 2027 @glasgow.ac.uk The James Hogg Society invites paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life & writing & with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish #Romanticism #CallforPapers jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/fort...

I had no idea Mr S. Smalley was so popular! Thanks for all the good wishes. 😊

Starting a new job today for the first time in a long time. My daily affirmation today is: 'I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!' 🙏

a man is looking at his reflection in a mirror and says i 'm good enough i 'm smart enough

Alt: Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live is looking at his reflection in a mirror and saying 'I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me'. (He doesn't believe this, but he lives in hope that it'll become true by repeating it.)

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1/2 Can you help us? A history group in New England is trying to find descendants of William Adamson, a Royal Navy sailor (HMS Terror) from Leith who died at Mystic River in 1814. He had a wife, Christian, & 2 daughters. Please share. #leithsailors #napoleonicwars #gravesecrets #hmsterror

‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’ at the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining 3rd Friday at 13.00 and 3rd Sat 11:15 in April, May, Sept. 2026 / 3rd Friday at 13.15 and 3rd Sat at 10:15 in June, July, Aug. 2026. Details: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/books...

Books Open Days! | Museum of Lead Mining

To celebrate the 270th Anniversary of the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining invites you to –  ‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’  Our Library books are historic...

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'Mining for Knowledge' - a study day to celebrate the 270th anniversay of the Wanlockhead Miners' Subscription Library - 4 June 2026 in Edinburgh. Programme and details here: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/minin...

'Mining for Knowledge' | Museum of Lead Mining

A one-day celebration for the 270th anniversary of the Wanlockhead Miners’ Library to be held in Edinburgh. Nine talks related to the library between 09-45 and 17-30 on 4th June 2026 Timeline for the ...

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Thank you so, so much to everyone who's sharing this today. SCALA!!! was a massive labour of love made on a microbudget, and turned down by everybody, until the BFI, thank God, picked it up. As it's not widely available, it's fantastic to be able to share it for free with potential new audiences. x

Ali Catterall@alicatterall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!

Newhaven Maritime festival, Heart of Newhaven ♥️ #Edinburgh EH6 4HY 16th May, noon - 3pm. Music, exhibitions and stalls. www.heartofnewhaven.co.uk/events-1 edinburghshoreline.org.uk/whats-on/

"New exhibition uncovers Edinburgh’s lost medieval church" The "Trinity Network's" exhibition shares two years of dedicated research by some amazing volunteers locating and mapping the stolen stones of the medieval Trinity Church in Edinburgh. Story here 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2609970...

Edinburgh exhibition explores lost medieval church demolished for Waverley Station

A new exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh is uncovering the story of Trinity Collegiate Church, a medieval landmark demolished to make way for…

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There are only a few days left to catch our John Kay display currently on show in the front hall at Central Library! Pop in to discover Kay’s distinctive style and satirical humour and enjoy the glimpse they offer into life in Edinburgh in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

New Friends of Edinburgh University Library Event - David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists - 27 May, 15:00: Details here: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/05/10/d...

David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists

15:00 Wednesday, 27 May 2026, CRC, 6th Floor, Main Library The David Laing Book Collecting Prize (patron, and Friend, Dr Bill Zachs) aims to encourage collecting by recognising a collection formed …

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New Friends of Edinburgh University Library Event - David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists - 27 May, 15:00: Details here: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/05/10/d...

David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists

15:00 Wednesday, 27 May 2026, CRC, 6th Floor, Main Library The David Laing Book Collecting Prize (patron, and Friend, Dr Bill Zachs) aims to encourage collecting by recognising a collection formed …

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Good news, aho! Great news, aho! This was such a fun project to work on: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/2026/05/08/c... You can find the Signet Library's Tincklarian Doctor pamphlets here: sign.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha... @signetlibrary.bsky.social #IGiveLight

We're delighted to announce the completion of a cataloguing project led by Dr. Kit Baston to remap & record our unique and important collection of pamphlets and ephemera by the great Georgian Edinburgh eccentric William Mitchel, the "Tincklarian Doctor." www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/tincklariand...

Good news, aho! Great news, aho! This was such a fun project to work on: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/2026/05/08/c... You can find the Signet Library's Tincklarian Doctor pamphlets here: sign.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha... @signetlibrary.bsky.social #IGiveLight

Old Edinburgh Reborn has a new blog. The Luckenbooths - a gem rediscovered. A project funded by the Old Edinburgh Club. #luckenbooths #stgilescathedral #williamcreech #oldtolbooth #parliamentsquare #edinburghsfirstshoppingcentre #highstreetofedinburgh

The Luckenbooths - a gem rediscovered

This time I'm going to show you a place which has been lost for three hundred years. Prepare to step back into the 1700s...The Luckenbooths were lockable booths. Some nestled against the bulk of St…

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A new walking guide of the Union Canal is now available to download from our website. #unioncanal #edinburghwalks #porthopetoun #lochrin #tollcross #fountainbridge #edinburghsindustrialpast #canalwalks

Canal's End: a walking guide - The Old Edinburgh Club

The 'Canal's End' guide leads you around the lost eastern terminus of the Union Canal between Edinburgh and Falkirk and what remains today.

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Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me. Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.

Bibliographical Society Lecture| 21 April 2026

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Enjoyed presenting work on the John Watson's Institution Archive at the Signet Library with @lixmount.bsky.social and @johockey.bsky.social AND my 'Book Borrowing Surgeons' at the @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Jean Guild Grants Showcase yesterday. Some truly illuminationg, interesting, and...

Tonight is the Jean Guild Award showcase of the excellent Old Edinburgh Club. Worth joining if only for online access to The Book of The Old Edinburgh Club, published since 1908

Not all books are destined to be best sellers, but this one, my first, means a lot to me. And it has a birthday this month! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h... ✒️📖

One of the better afternoons of my life was spent in reading the final draft of @kgbaston.bsky.social 's book "Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment". Kit writes about this fantastic book 10 years on: www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h...