RCSEd Library & Archive

We're excited to tell you our collections are now online! Search, browse & download from 3000 digitised photographs & manuscripts, 16th-20th century. We'll continue to upload more collections so do keep checking back! archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk #histmed #WDPD2018

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/pro…

The latest episode of Beyond the Knife has dropped! In this episode, Steven Kerr, the Librarian @RCSEdArchive, discusses the extraordinary story behind one of histories most enduring medical texts -Gray's Anatomy. You can find Beyond the Knife wherever you get your podcasts.

Dr Clare McNaught has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks. Read more: bit.ly/44kf55F

This is our 1st edition of William Harvey’s ‘Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis…’, published in 1628, and often cited as the most important book in the history of medicine. Harvey was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body #NationalBloodWeek

Apparently it's Sherlock Holmes Day so of course we have to share the real Sherlock, Edinburgh surgeon and @RCSEd President, Joseph Bell! Here he is with some letters from his former pupil, Arthur Conan Doyle that confirm Bell as inspiration for Doyle's literary detective.

On International Day of the Midwife explore our digital exhibition 'In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery', on the history of midwifery and obstetrics and Edinburgh's contribution to the development of the profession. archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-collec…

It's #NationalUnicornDay! The mythical 'horse of healing' is the symbol of @rcsed & favourite heraldic animal of James IV who ratified our Royal Charter in 1506. In 1652 Nicolaes Tulp described a sea-unicorn now known to be a narwhal. Its tusk was mistaken for a unicorn horn

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We’re breaking from our usual release schedule to bring you a special episode for International Women’s Day! In this episode, we welcome midwife, award-winning author, and women's health advocate Leah Hazard. Beyond the Knife is available wherever you get your podcasts!

Just two weeks to go until @RCSEdArchive host their 'Treasures of the Library' event. Attendees will have the opportunity to view some of their rarest collections not on public display including a copy of "The Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493. Book here: bit.ly/4hCv2tq

We're ridiculously excited to have acquired the archive of surgeon Helen McMillan, who became the third female Fellow @RCSEd in 1921. Her collection is a #WomenInSurgery treasure trove of photographs, letters, diaries & artwork. Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay!

This is quite exciting. We have a receipt dated 1772 for the original John's Coffeehouse for an order made by members of the Society of Barbers, which came to five pounds, five shillings!

College Librarian Steven Kerr looks at the origins and legacy of the most famous medical textbook of all time - “Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical”, produced in 1858 by anatomists Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter.

Join us 15 May for a lecture by Tom Wood on the Ruxton case and why its known as the first modern murder. Tom is the former Deputy Chief Constable and Director of Operation for Lothian and Borders Police. There's still some tickets left but not many! eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruxton-the-f…