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Jean Guild Award Funding for WS Society’s John Watson’s Institution Archive
The Signet Library is delighted to announce that it has been awarded one of the 2025 round of Jean Guild Award grants from The Old Edinburgh Club to fund research, conservation and publication of its archive of the Society’s former school for orphaned children, John Watson’s Institution (1828-1975). John Watson’s Institution opened in the autumn…
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A New Project – and a New Discovery
Mapping the WS Society’s Early History This week saw the beginning of a new project to catalogue the seventeenth and eighteenth century unbound paper archive of the WS Society and Signet Library, with this material being added to the existing online catalogue of bound WS Society and Signet Library archive records created during the Covid…
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The WS Society Almanac Collection
The installation in the Upper Library this week of part of the Signet Library’s collection of historical almanacs was the final part of conservator Jo Hockey’s long-running recataloguing and conservation project. Almanacs were pocket-sized publications published from the seventeenth century into the modern era. They contained a mass of useful information on subjects including weather,…
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Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog
Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog, where we bring together news and articles about conservation, research and exhibitions taking place here at the Signet Library.