The University was approached early this year by the daughters of a former long-serving minister of Martyrs Kirk. They wished to donate a new stained glass window that would celebrate work their father had done over…
So, this week, I thought I’d take a look at how to borrow a library book – after all, this is a library blog! I’ve chosen something a little more […]
30th September 1859:
Friday. Bending a fore topsail before breakfast. Sails…
29th September 1859:
Thursday. helping Sails to rip up an old topsail first…
28th September 1859:
Wednesday. 56 days out in Lat 6.0.S.…
In a previous blog post we highlighted a recent report studying the housing situation in St Andrews. We have now archived a new study commissioned by Shelter, and conducted by the University of St Andrews, which…
For this week’s Historical How-To, I intended to look for a jam or jelly recipe to preserve the bumper crop of blackberries in the hedgerow near my home, but turned […]
More than any other poet of late medieval Scotland, Gavin Douglas delighted in writing about the books he had read: the reputations of their authors, the errors he found in […]
Nature Communications is to become a fully open access journal. Until this time Nature Publishing Group has only published hybrid journals under the Nature branding. To recap: hybrid journals offer a choice between…
For this week’s blog I thought I’d have a go at paper modelling, as we have in our Copyright Deposit Collection a little work published in 1824 entitled Papyro-plastics, or […]