So far, all the items in the collection podcast have been selected by host, Chloe Medghalchi. But what happens when six members of the Center for Research Collections to choose one item fitting of a special collection? Find out what items they chose, and what exactly a ‘gentleman’s collection’...

Throughout the podcast we've been looking at items in the collection, but this episode will discuss new items. Future items! We'll be discussing items that have been newly acquired or are in the process of being added to the ever-growing university collection.

The objects in the University of Edinburgh’s Research Collection have many interesting stories to tell. But few are actually linked to a real story or a real person. We’ll be looking at three objects that are ‘based on a true story’: Adrien de Vries's Cain and Abel, Smugglerius, and a nurse’s...