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History and culture of city goes online



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Published Date: 16 February 2008
RARE archives chronicling the history, life and culture of Edinburgh are to be made available online for the first time this month.
Documents from the Edinburgh Room in the Central Library, the first local studies department in the country, have been digitised as part of an £18,000 project.

Around 1000 watercolours, sketches, drawings, and photographs from the collection will be showcased on the new site – www.capitalcollections.org.uk.

Among the features will be an online exhibition illustrating the key features of both the Old and New Town World Heritage Site.

Other highlights include photographic surveys from the 1850s to the early 1900s, which provide a snapshot of areas such as the Cowgate.

David Hicks, of Edinburgh World Heritage said: "Anyone will now be able to explore this fascinating archive and see for themselves how Edinburgh has developed but retained its historic character."

City libraries leader Deidre Brock said today: "Long gone are the days when libraries were simply about borrowing books – we are modernising, digitising and reaching out to the wider world."





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  • Last Updated: 16 February 2008 10:57 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Buttress,

16/02/2008 12:06:24
Of course, a great deal of historic character is about to vanish in the Old Town unless the Caltongate demolitions are halted:

www.eh8.org.uk
2

alex paterson,

embra 16/02/2008 14:30:35
Sadly we are slowly losing our history,so the Caltongate must be stopped,driving into the city from the west all you can see is high flats hiding everything.
3

Statsman,

Edinburgh 16/02/2008 14:55:35
Sadly, the pictures have all been defaced with giant watermarks across the centre of them. Along the bottom or the side would have been fine. Right in your line of sight makes the pictures hard to look at.

That makes this project a bit of a waste of time.

It's amazing how the council can even screw up something most would deem worthy.
4

Buttress,

16/02/2008 15:47:03
Presumably that's because they have certain images for sale, and so are preventing people printing them off themselves.

I agree - a little sad that what should have been a research resource is now made difficult to see properly online.
5

Mykel Mzoritz,

Edinburgh 16/02/2008 17:10:05
Council tw@ts at it again. Statsman is rite - there are so many ways to do this without the defacing these halfwits have done.
6

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17/02/2008 00:03:49
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Julian,

EDINBURGH 18/02/2008 00:28:54
#3 statsman,

That'll be for the copyright.
8

COLINTON.MAINS,

Oakville Ontario 18/02/2008 03:24:43
if you dont stop demolition all that will be left off edinburgh is pictures and indian breakfast signs*

 

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