A watertight conservation plan
In this blog, conservator Molly Brass explains some of the behind the scenes work that went on in preparation of the new exhibition ‘War, Destruction and Reform’, now on at the Wardlaw Museum. Recently, I helped…
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Libraries Open Forum update
On 19 November 2025, we held a Libraries Open Forum in partnership with the Students’ Association. The focus was on students’ experiences of behaviour in library spaces. This was a drop-in event with drinks and snacks…
Library Collecting Competition 2025 – results!
November 2025 saw the return of the Library Collecting Competition. This was the third year we’ve run the competition, and once again we received some great entries. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who…
Sounds of Scotland – a Surprisingly Scottish playlist
In this blog, Learning & Engagement Manager Ross Christie embarks in an adventure around the unexpected sounds of scotland, from pipes to pop and folk to funk. From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity explores the…
December 25th – The sterre schon
Merry Christmas one and all! For Christmas Day, we have chosen this medieval carol which finds the baby Jesus born in Bethlehem, and a golden star shining brightly overhead: “þe sterr’ hym schon boþe nyзt & day to lede…
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…
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…