52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 39: compile a dictionary
Sometimes you come across someone in the story of the University who just makes you stop and stare, whose erudition and achievements in enabling the work of others fills you […]
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After working as User Experience and Communications Manager for the University's Library, Beth joined Digital Communications as Senior Web Content Editor in 2023. As a content editor, Beth will work with colleagues across the University to develop online information and improve user experience. She has an avid interest in travel, art and golden retrievers.
Flying fish and salt horse: seafaring tales
Today we are starting a new feature, a daily diary entry from the journal of 16 year old Richard Peele Hobson aboard the ship Philanthropist, as it sailed from Liverpool […]
MEI Internship Project Begins: a 16th century German binding mystery solved!
This summer, St Andrews began contributing information about its earliest printed books to CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula project. This project, initiated and directed by Dr Cristina Dondi, seeks to […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, week 38: how to take a 16th century bath
For this week’s how-to, I thought I’d try some 16th century recipes from the first English translation of Europe’s most popular apothecary of the 15th and 16th century. I’ve grabbed […]
52 WEEKS OF HISTORICAL HOW-TO’S, WEEK 37: How to improve your mind …
There is a scene early in Mansfield Park (1814) where Maria and Julia Bertram, then aged thirteen and twelve, deplore the ignorance of their slightly younger cousin Fanny Price. She […]
52 weeks of Historical How-to’s, week 36: A honeymoon trip through Perthshire
Corbet Stacey Catty and Caroline Gray were married at Carry’s home, 2 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, on 4th June 1856. Later that day they said farewell to their family and friends […]
The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible: a new gift
A very recent generous gift from Bruce and Suzie Kovner to the Special Collections Division of the University Library is on display in the King James Library this weekend. The […]
52 weeks of Historical How-to’s, week 35: knitted cap
This week’s Historical How-To comes from the papers of James David Forbes (1809-1868), who was Principal of the United Colleges of St Andrews University from 1859-1868. This archive focuses mainly […]
The Great War at 100 – by Dr Tim Wilson
As the date of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence Symposium – Political Violence and the Long Great War 1914-1923 approaches, Dr Tim Wilson from the School of International Relations…
52 weeks of Historical How-to’s, week 34: Headache remedy
This week’s blog takes a look at medicinal remedies. My attention was first drawn to The method of physick by Philip Barrough as it contains ‘the cavses, signes, and cures of […]