Essays

Read our in-depth essays relating to the UncoverED project.

Phrenology emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as an “analytical science” involving the study of the shape and dimensions of the human skull.

"A permanent record of our collective activities". Read about early Chinese students at the University of Edinburgh.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many medical graduates from the University of Edinburgh travelled to the West Indies (modern-day Caribbean) for work.

Read more about the experience of Caribbean students in Edinburgh during the 1960s.