George
Washington Wilson Collection Born in the North East of Scotland, George Washington
Wilson (1823-93), became established in Aberdeen in the
1850s as an 'artist and photographer'. Wilson's
camera ranged all over Britain and the
colonial townships of South Africa and Australia, as well
as the western Mediterranean. The collection consists of
over 40,000 glass plate negatives, produced during the
second half of the 19th century by which time the company
he founded had become the largest and best known photographic
and printing firm in the world.
Frigg UK: 30 years on
Funded by TOTAL E&P UK and Gassled, this
resource documents 30 years’ of innovation
and activity on the UK Continental Shelf creating
an important, comprehensive and unique resource. A wide
variety of material has been catalogued, including engineering
drawings, technical manuals, operational records, company
journals, photographs, and film and video footage. This
is accompanied by a series of online essays detailing
the dynamic story of the UK’s involvement and achievements.
In Memoriam
This
resource tells the stories of the soldiers and sons of
Aberdeen, the Northeast, and farther afield who were involved
in both world wars and did not survive to tell their own.
It provides details of each soldier’s name, rank,
regiment, honours, date of birth, date of death, and burial
along with a brief biography. The First World War biographies
also contain photographs of the men and personal information
contributed by friends, family, professors, and military
commanders.
Aberdeen Bestiary
The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library
MS 24) is considered to be one of the best examples of its
type. The manuscript, written and illuminated in England
around 1200, is of added interest since it contains notes,
sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and
executed.
The
Burnet Psalter Composed in the first half of
the fifteenth century, The Burnet Psalter contains the categories
of material common to psalters of the time: a calendar, devotions
(prayers and hymns) for personal use, the Psalter itself (the
Book of Psalms), and liturgies (forms of worship) for personal
use.
The
St Albans Psalter Project The St Albans Psalter, owned
by St Godehard's Church in Hildesheim, Germany, is one of
the finest examples of English Romanesque art. It is connected
historically to Christina of Markyate, a hermitess living
near St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, in the early 12th century.
Christina, aided by a monk from the abbey, collaborated in
the production of her own biography, a vivid document recounting
the dramatic events of her life, several of which can be connected
with the psalter.
The MacBean Jacobite Collection The MacBean Stuart & Jacobite
Collection is a resource of international importance. Some
3,500 books and 1,000 pamphlets cover every aspect of the
Jacobite rebellions, the causes and effects, and the personalities,
royal, national and local. The Collection also offers much
promising background material for research into many aspects
of the late-seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.
University
of Aberdeen Oral History Archive Begun in 1985 as part of the
Aberdeen University Quincentenary Project, the interviews
were originally intended to aid historians working on monographs
commemorating the University's Quincentenary a decade later.
Interviewing continues, however, and the archive now contains
over 160 interviews with 142 individuals connected with the
University.
The
Papers of Thomas Reid Thomas Reid (1710-96) is internationally
known as the chief representative of the Scottish School of
Common Sense. Appointed to a Regentship at King's College
Aberdeen, his duties required him to teach a wide range of
subjects, but his principle interest lay in philosophy. Reid's
philosophical ideas remain of great interest. They are marked
by a striking lucidity of thought and expression.
Aberdeen Harbour
Board Collection The Aberdeen Harbour Board Collection
consists of about 6,000 glass plate negatives dating from
the 1880s to the 1930s. They are mainly images of the harbour
and surrounding area, but include some of Aberdeen city and
further afield. The photographs were taken by the Board's
engineering staff as a record of port developments and activities.
The Music of
James Scott Skinner James Scott Skinner (1843
– 1927) was a key figure in Scottish traditional music. He
took the art of Scottish fiddle music to a new height through
his playing and his compositions.This site is a learning and research resource
suitable for anyone with an interest in Skinner, Scottish
dance, Scottish fiddle music, Scottish traditional music and
its history, and the North East of Scotland.
The Voice of Radicalism The Voice of Radicalism traces
the changes in democratic rights in Northeast Scotland from
1800 to 1930. Materials include political articles from 19th
and 20th century newspapers, prints, squibs, ephemera and
song sheets. The themes covered include the reform acts, Chartism,
political and social grievances which led to popular protest,
trade-unionism, the rise of the Labour party and the women's
suffrage movement.
The
Sir Walter Scott Collection assembled by Bernard C. Lloyd The collection is generally understood
to be one of the most comprehensive collections of Sir Walter
Scott printed books ever assembled. It contains almost every
edition of every work written or edited by Scott and published
during his lifetime, works to which he contributed, and works
derived from Scott such as songs, playscripts, libretti, chapbooks,
illustrations and parodies, together with catalogues, biographies
and criticism.
The
Brown-Lindsay and Christ's College Pamphlet Collection The collection encompasses 300
years of the history of the dissenting Presbyterian Churches
but also includes rarities reflecting wider religious issues.
Dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries, the pamphlets
also cover a wide subject area, and there are works - many
quite rare - concerning slavery, religious revivals, Sunday
observance, baptism, the education and well-being of the working
class, science and religion, Mormonism and spiritualism.
Charting
the Nation
The Charting the Nation is a collaborative digital
imaging and cataloguing project with the aim of widening access
to the maps of Scotland. The collection includes a wide variety
of single maps and maps in atlases and other bound books,
together with important manuscript and printed texts relating
to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740
and beyond.
Revelation
The RSLP Revelation
project, administered by the University of Birmingham, aims
to unlock research resources for 19th and 20th century Church
History and Christian Theology. Aberdeen University submitted
detailed descriptions of some 52 relevant collections of
printed and manuscript material.
