Presentation by Clare Padgett, Our Town Stories, City of Edinburgh Council. Invited talk at a workshop for 'Scotland's National Collections and the Digital Humanities,' a knowledge-exchange project hosted at the University of Edinburgh. 2 May 2014. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/archives-now/

1. Working with data
clare.padgett@edinburgh.gov.uk Edinburgh Libraries

2. If one could make alive again for other people
some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and
breathe breath and character into dead names
and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
George Macaulay Trevelyan,
(source: www.quotegarden.com)

3. How do you like the Brigade? I asked him
Well Sir, if I don’t like it, I should.
Why? I asked him.
Just because we have plenty of meat, and have good
friends here, and I know what it is to be without
these, if anyone does
Have you had many hardships in your short life?
I should think so, he replied
From ‘Edinburgh Industrial Brigade & Home for
Destitute & Homeless Boys’ (recorded by a person
working with the Brigade in about 1871)

4. Whose Town? heritage resource for schools

5. Whose Town? Life in a Box

6. Capital Collections

7. Our Town Stories

8. History: gossip
well told.
Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft
Dictionary (source:
www.quotegarden.com)