The Signet Library is a vast repository of meaning and stories about Scotland’s role in making the modern world. Its ideals, architecture, interiors, library collections, art and furniture together create a rich context for audiences to engage with the legal and intellectual heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment and its enduring relevance. The aim of New Enlightenment is to have a positive impact on people’s lives by broadening and deepening their understanding of how social and individual progress is achieved through law, learning and literature in a free, democratic society. The vision is to create an integrated experience of one of the great libraries of the world, an institution that tells the story of Scotland’s early legal, social and intellectual life, its flowering under the Scottish Enlightenment, and its crucial importance today. The story will be told through the people, events and ideas that have shaped the heritage of the Signet Library and of the Writers to the Signet in the heart of one of Europe’s cultural capitals.

Download here:

- HLF Application Form (94KB)
- Interpretation Strategy (11.4MB)
- Conservation Statement (2.7MB)
- Building Condition Report (2.17MB)
- Activity Plan (1.51MB)
- Baseline Cost Plan (160KB)
- Job Specifications (156KB)
- Organisational Structure (40KB)
- WS Society’s Regulations (493KB)
- WS Society’s Accounts to 31 Dec 2016 (326KB)
- The Signet Library Heritage Fund Trust Deed (865KB)
- The Signet Library Heritage Fund’s Accounts to 31 March 2017 (7.13MB)
- Images (339KB)