52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 13: Burns Night
Recipes from Meg Dods’ Cook and Housewife’s Manual have featured in a couple of earlier posts in this series, but Burns Night (25 January) provides the perfect excuse to explore […]
Recipes from Meg Dods’ Cook and Housewife’s Manual have featured in a couple of earlier posts in this series, but Burns Night (25 January) provides the perfect excuse to explore […]
The subject of this week’s blog is a rather interesting manuscript, bound with three printed works, and takes me back to my postgraduate days of studying late-mediaeval veterinary medicine. All […]
From 13 - 18 January, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is hosting Copyright Week. Each day is devoted to a different issue, with participating organisations contributing blog posts and encouraging online…
From now to 31 March 2014, any article that is submitted to PeerJ PrePrints can go on to be published in the innovative open access journal PeerJ entirely for free. PeerJ is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly…
To the lovers of home this little manual of amusing phenomena for family recreation is respectfully dedicated - Parlour Magic (sGV1471.P2) Whilst discussing the whole ‘Historical how-to’ project, and what activities…
The Centre for Housing Research at the University of St Andrews released a new report just before the end of 2013. 'Growing economies and building homes: Reconciling growth and housing wellbeing in St Andrews' examines…
Following our post on Christmas Decorations from the Girl’s Own Annual, this week’s Historical How-To comes from the Boy’s Own Book, found in the Copyright Deposit Collection. Although our copy […]
When thinking about useful skills in this world to be handed down from generations past, immediately my mind turned to wine. Being someone who enjoys wine, and the culture of […]
This year’s Special Collections Christmas party was slightly different to the usual festive celebration, as we continued to follow our Historical How-To theme. We brought along the decorations we have […]
The Journal of Terrorism Research has just become a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). JTR is published by the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at University…