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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…
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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…
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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.