The Journal is published twice a year in June and December and is sent to all members of the
Graduates’ Association. Individual issues are also available for purchase. Copies of many past
issues, still in their original wrappers, are available for sale from the Graduates' Association
office. Please ask the Editor to quote prices for those that you require (gradassoc@ed.ac.uk)
Articles in recent issues have included:
| Volume 46 no 2 (December 2011) | |
|---|---|
| Memories of EU Glee Club - the Early Sixties. Peter B Freshwater | My Life in the Ministry Rev Di Williams |
| The University, its Symbols and Colours - An Historical and Allegorical Account. Peter Arter | The Gustav Born Professorship and Research Centre in Vascular Biology at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Gustav Victor Rudoplh Born |
| Japan's Nuclear Crisis - The Routes to Responsibility. Susan Carpenter | Joseph Hart Myers MD (1758-1823) First Jewish Graduate (Part 1). Stephen W Massil |
| The Tercentenary of David Hume. David Fergusson | Earthly Insights – Five Years in the life of a Geology Student. Adele Cameron |
| The Crarae Quarry. Una F Cochrane | A Most Significant Purchase for the University: Holinshed’s Chronicles. Peter B Freshwater |
| Marking Simpson's Bicentenary. Dr Alison Nuttall & Professor Rosemary Mander | Volume 44 no 4 (December 2010) |
| Back to Writing for a Good Cause. Jacqueline Anne McDonnell | Students not a Waste of (landfill) Space! Sandra Kinnear |
| The Birthplace of Peter Pan - How Barrie's Time in Dumfries was Vital to the Development of the Character. Roger S Windsor | Spartans Football Club - From Small Beginnings Alan Chainey |
| Joseph Hart Myers MD (1758-1823) - First Jewish Graduate (Part II). Stephen W Massil | Extracts from a talk given by The Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Lochbroom Scots Lexicology at Edinburgh Chris Robinson |
| A Fitting Tribute. Valerie D Robertson | Peter Burt and the Single Sleeve Valve Engine (SSV) Ian J Fleming |
| Volume 45 no 1 (June 2011) | Saving an Historic House Wendy Scott |
| ‘There shall be in each University a General Council’ the General Council of the University of Edinburgh. Ann Matheson | Early Overseas Students' Societies at Edinburgh University, 1767-1930 Peter B Freshwater |
| A Life of Service. Ann Matheson | Herbert Grierson and Modernist Poetry Cairns Craig |
| An Evening in the Company of Lord David Steel of Aikwood. Valerie D Robertson | Under the Volcano's Spell - Secret Knowledge of Chapter 1 Michael Romer |
| Davos 2011 - A Reporter's View. Ross Chainey |
Notes for Contributors
Contributions of all kinds, especially articles on topics connected with the University or its alumni (max. 1,500 words), reviews of books by Edinburgh alumni (max. 250 words), and brief obituaries (max. 75 words) of Edinburgh alumni, are warmly welcomed for consideration by the Editor and the Editorial Committee. They can be submitted as typescript or fax or in electronic format as email attachments or on CD-ROM (compatible with an Apple computer). Books by Edinburgh alumni for review are welcome and can be sent to the Editor.
Stamped, addressed envelopes should accompany all contributions on paper or on disk.
Authors are asked to include brief autobiographical statements of not more than 75 words.
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About the Journal
The University of Edinburgh Journal has been published continuously since 1925. Until the establishment in the 1950s of the University Gazette, later to be replaced by the University Bulletin, the Journal shared with the University Calendar the distinction of being the record of the University.
For many years the Journal was the only regular magazine for alumni published in the University. The volumes of the Journal form an important databank of information on the history and current affairs of the University. Each issue included pages of University news and notes. Lists of deceased alumni and members of staff, and brief obituaries of selected alumni as well as appreciations of notable University figures, have long been and are still a much-valued feature. The Journal provided the University’s only published Roll of Honour for World War 2. It appeared in instalments between 1943 and 1949 and, unlike its predecessor for World War 1, has not been reissued in book form.
Early volumes included the texts of many inaugural lectures by professors who later achieved international recognition and reputation and of guest and public lectures by visiting personalities on topics of current public interest; many of these are now seen as important contributions to historiography and bibliography.
Professor David B Horn, for instance, reworked his groundbreaking articles in the Journal into his Short History of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press, 1967); and the text of H. F. M. Prescott’s 1941 lecture on the Pilgrimage of Grace predated by over ten years her best-selling novel on the same subject, The man on a donkey. Currently, the Journal is devoted to shorter articles on a wide range of topics connected with the University and by or about Edinburgh alumni.