Wikimedian in Residence

Example uploads

Example image collection uploads undertaken at the University of Edinburgh.

Tower Block Archive

The Tower Block UK image archive (Heritage Lottery Funded project) is a fully searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK in the post-war decades.

Leith Improvement Scheme Photographs

A collection of photographs taken in Leith by Donald Scott during the 1920s. The photographs were taken to show the slums of Leith prior to the ‘Edinburgh (Leith) Improvement Scheme of 1924'.