This is the final part of our mini blog series featuring sensational headlines from The St Andrews Citizen newspaper. Spoiler alert: contains graphic descriptions of murder – not for the faint-hearted! There are few…
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past year! We are ending the series with a visual index:
I wanted to do something a little different for the last of the reading the collections blogs so I decided that it would be intriguing to look at an item […]
It seems fitting in the week of St Andrews’ own poetry festival, StAnza, to feature one of our literary collections. I have chosen Willa Muir, poet, novelist, diarist, translator and St […]
A newly catalogued volume in Special Collections offers a vista onto one largely forgotten moment in the history of European religion. The volume, a modest vellum bound quarto, is a […]
In anticipation of the StAnza Festival taking place in early March, I decided to read some poetry for this week’s post – Light Box – a collaboration between Professor Robert Crawford, Norman McBeath and the scientists…
The University of St Andrews’ new Special Collections acquisition, Caught By The Nest (2013), is an A3-sized art-meets-fiction collaboration by design team Kai and Sunny, and British author David Mitchell. The […]
Born in Manchester and raised in London, Franki Raffles was an alumna of St Andrews University (MA in Moral Philosophy, 1977). After graduating she made her home in Scotland, first […]
Amongst the stacks in St Andrews one can find some of the most stunning and renowned examples of mathematicians and artists collaborating or crossing boundaries to experiment largely with Euclid’s […]
When I was tasked with looking for material for a school session on the Russian Revolution, I was dubious as to how much Russian material we would have here at […]