The Library currently has trial access to three databases: African Newspapers Series I and II, 1800-1925 Through eyewitness reporting and editorials, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices, this…
While this major event is held in St Andrews, there will be disruption to services and access to study space. All library sites and services will be closed from 14th until 17th July inclusive. For study space, you can…
The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technique opens up new horizons for the close study of the materiality of palpable objects like manuscripts. It reveals things we cannot easily observe with our very eyes,…
At a workshop back in April I applied RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) to the processing of images of a twelfth-century parchment leaf and found some details that were difficult to observe with the naked eye.…
As light glimmers over the fifteenth-century illuminated initial, the calm and focused expression on the face of our university’s eponym St Andrew remains unchanged. He seems to look directly at the shadow of a…
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts as part of their course. Here is the first in a small series…
Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together. To mark the Platinum Jubilee weekend, we thought we…
On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of preparation by Professor Margaret Connolly and Professor Rhiannon Purdie,…
Staff and research students of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research have put together an online mini-exhibition to highlight some of the collection items available for the study of Scottish Women’s History…
The University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums is proud to have signed a cooperation agreement with the National Central Library of Taiwan. We are one of just four partners in the UK who have been invited to join…