Unveiling the Signet Library's 2024 Online Exhibition:

"The Signet Library's Long Eighteenth Century 1722 - 1837" tells the story of that Golden Age, during which the WS Society’s began to build its legal library burgeoned into the creation of one of the aesthetic and intellectual wonders of the late Scottish Enlightenment.

The Exhibition features our new transcription of the Charles Cockburn Letters 1714-1715, written by a new Deputy Keeper to the Signet to the Keeper in the shadow of the advancing 1715 Jacobite Rebellion and the digitization of a very early pamphlet published by the advocate John Cuninghame in 1705 illustrating legal education in Scotland in the years immediately before the foundation of the first Scottish university chairs in law.

Please direct any exhibition enquiries to James Hamilton.

Please also take some time to explore our Heritage Portal but note that owing to the DDOS attack on the internet archive certain of our digitised manuscripts and texts are temporarily offline.