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The New College library was founded in 1843 as the Library of the Free Church College. It is the largest single-site theological library in the United Kingdom, holding a large collection of manuscripts, including the papers of Thomas Chalmers, John Baillie , J. H. Oldham and James S. Stewart.
That year, an advisory council for the settlement formed, consisting of members of the United Free Presbytery of Edinburgh and the New College senatus along with lay members chosen by the senatus and by the New College Missionary Society. [4] [9] New College students served as the settlement's wardens then, from 1908, as its sub-wardens. That ...
It traces its origins back to the foundation of New College, Edinburgh at the time of the Disruption of 1843. [1] At the formation of the United Free Church, the United Free Church was granted the New College buildings, and so the continuing Free Church moved to new premises in 1907. [1] It acquired its present name in 2014.
The School is engaged in teaching and research in the three disciplines of history, classics and archaeology. It consists of three research centres: [1] Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History; Edinburgh Centre for Global History; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Playfair's New College. Following the Disruption in the Church of Scotland in 1843, the emergent Free Church of Scotland urgently required a new theological college (New College) in Edinburgh, an Assembly Hall and a home for the Free High Church (the member of St Giles' Cathedral who left at the Disruption).
Marischal College was rebuilt in the Gothic style from 1900. [40] Unlike the other Medieval and ecclesiastical foundations, because the University of Edinburgh was a civic college it was relatively poor. In 1858 it was taken out of the care of the city and established on a similar basis to the other ancient universities.
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The Pleasance, one of Edinburgh University Students' Association's main buildings, is located nearby, as is Edinburgh College of Art in Lauriston. North of George Square lies the university's Old College housing Edinburgh Law School, New College on The Mound housing the School of Divinity, and St Cecilia's Hall.