Advent Calendar: 14 December – Long walk in the snow
Photograph of the ‘Long Walk, St Andrews’ in snow in 1913. This image is from the papers of the Botany Department of the University of St Andrews which used to […]
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Advent Calendar: 13 December – Reindeer
Illustration of a reindeer from one the engraved plates in Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia, a history of Northern Scandinavia and the Sami people. A noted Swedish humanist, Johannes Schefferus’ account of […]
Advent Calendar: 12 December – The Snowman
Photograph by local press photographer George Cowie of a young girl making a snowman, dated between 1925-1935 (GMC-EC-30-a). Making snowmen is a popular winter activity, which can be traced back […]
Closures and changes to opening times over winter vacation
We hope you all have a lovely festive season and winter break! Most Library facilities will close at 5pm on Friday 21 December 2018 and reopen on Thursday 3 January 2019. Libraries will then move to vacation opening…
Borrowing over the winter vacation
If you are going away over the winter vacation and plan to take Library books or other items with you, please remember that all Library items can still be recalled by other Library users. Check your University email…
Advent Calendar: 11 December – Christmas Tree
Colour illustration of a Christmas tree from The Gift Book for all Seasons: A book of Instruction and Amusement for All Young People, 1860 (rper AP4.G5B6). While there has been […]
Advent Calendar: 10 December – Father Christmas
Illustration of Father Christmas “Up-to-Date” by the illustrator Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), published in the magazine Punch, ot the London Charivari, 26 December 1896 (per AP101.P8 Volume CXI). Tenniel was […]
Advent Calendar: 9 December – ‘Christmas Chants’
The Scottish folklorist Alexander Carmichael edited the songs, lore and poems of the Gaelic speaking regions of Scotland in the work Carmina Gadelica, 1900 (r PB1631.C2). Carmichael records that ‘Christmas […]
Advent Calendar: 8 December – Curling
Photograph of the beginning of a curling match between the Silver Foxes Curling Club, East Lothian and the Dundee Curling Club dated between 1925-1935, possibly at the Law Mill curling […]
Advent Calendar: 7 December – A Christmas Carol
Title page and frontispiece from A Christmas Carol in prose by Charles Dickens, c.1885 (s PR4557.C5). A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, to give the […]