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  • Scotland’s Ain Game: Curling at the Signet Library

    Scotland’s Ain Game: Curling at the Signet Library

    A DISPLAY TO CELEBRATE THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 2026 As we write, a Winter Olympics Bronze Medal match looms for Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat in the Mixed Doubles Curling. To celebrate their achievement and to mark the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina more generally, we’ve put together an online exhibition featuring some of…

  • The Archive of John Watson’s Institution

    The Archive of John Watson’s Institution

    We are delighted to announce the completion of the research stage of our Jean Guild Award funded project about the WS Society’s school for orphans, John Watson’s Institution. Through this generous Old Edinburgh Club funding, we have been able to catalogue and analyse our important holdings of early archive material from the school, which we…

  • Jean Guild Award Funding for WS Society’s John Watson’s Institution Archive

    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…

  • Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog

    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.