Libraries Winter Hours 2025
The Christmas vacation and inter-semester break are almost here. To try to help you plan-ahead, our revised opening hours can be found below. These include some additional opening hours during the revision period, as…
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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
Tonight, being Christmas Eve, many will indeed be welcoming in Christmas and hopefully much joy, as captured in the jolly carol recorded…
Date Wednesday December 24, 2025
Category University Collections
The tale unfolding in verse today, centred upon Adam disobedience in plucking an apple from the tree, is preserved in just one manuscript.…
Date Tuesday December 23, 2025
Category University Collections
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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…
December 21st – Deck the Halls
Today’s advent door opens onto winters of yesteryear spent in University Hall, the University of St Andrews’ first residence for women students. The records of the “Dinna Forget” club, an informal social group of…
December 20th – Blown away by feathers
“It is most remarkable”, declares an aghast J.R. Planché in his ‘Cyclopædia of costume’ (1876 – 1879, rf GT510.P5), “that these most graceful and effective ornaments appeared to have been utterly ignored by all races…