University Library news and events
Information about spaces, feedback, changes to opening times, competitions, events, our collections including University and Museum Collections, and more can be found on this blog.
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November 2025 saw the return of the Library Collecting Competition. This was the third year we’ve run the competition, and once again we…
Date Tuesday January 27, 2026
Category News
In this blog, Learning & Engagement Manager Ross Christie embarks in an adventure around the unexpected sounds of scotland, from pipes to…
Date Wednesday January 14, 2026
Category University Collections
Merry Christmas one and all! For Christmas Day, we have chosen this medieval carol which finds the baby Jesus born in Bethlehem, and a…
Date Thursday December 25, 2025
Category University Collections
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December 24th – Three cheers for Christmas
Tonight, being Christmas Eve, many will indeed be welcoming in Christmas and hopefully much joy, as captured in the jolly carol recorded by W.T. Stead as “A Christmas Song”: Now thrice welcome Christmas! Which brings…
December 23rd – A measure of winters
The tale unfolding in verse today, centred upon Adam disobedience in plucking an apple from the tree, is preserved in just one manuscript. Happily, that manuscript is our old friend ms Sloane, and Wright has duly…
December 22nd – The sound(er) of feasting
Though early modern students at St Andrews were expected to live beneath one college roof, and eat at a common table, the presbyterian tradition, and students and masters pleading poverty, precluded any great Christmas…