We’re starting up a silent reading club, meeting once a month in the Main Library. All University of St Andrews staff and students are welcome to attend. (Skip to the sign up form). When and where is this happening?…
Updated 16/07/26 This summer most of the lighting in the Main Library is being updated. Level 3 works have begun, and part of the floor has been closed off to users. Currently you can browse books within A-HB class…
The last post looked at the nearly 300 years during which bishops and archbishops served as Chancellors of the University. This post turns to the period following the abolition of Episcopacy in 1689. The position of…
In an historic graduation ceremony, Dame Anne Pringle will be installed as chancellor this week, the first woman to serve as chancellor in the University’s 600-year history. In this two-part blog we take a look at the…
In this blog, the 2026 J D Forbes Collecting Prize winner Lizzy Adlam tells us about their winning collection entitled ‘Constellation’. Once upon a time in a land far away… well, in Loughborough anyway, a young girl…
In the first of a series of posts, Graduate Trainee Jack O’Hara takes a look at some documents in University Collections relating to the complex of buildings on South Street, St Andrews known as St Johns,…
In this blog, Professor Laurence Talairach, Professor of English at University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and 2026 Senior Global Fellow in the School of English here at St Andrews, shares highlights from their research on…
In this blog, Matt Sheard, Head of Experience and Engagement at the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, shares an insight into the work our Museums colleagues have been doing to make our exhibitions…
In January this year a significant donation of books joined our collections here in St Andrews: the Neil Rhodes Collection, a collection of English renaissance and related literature. The books were donated by Emeritus…
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…