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…
In this blog, Learning & Engagement Manager Ross Christie embarks in an adventure around the unexpected sounds of scotland, from pipes to pop and folk to funk. From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity explores the…
Merry Christmas one and all! For Christmas Day, we have chosen this medieval carol which finds the baby Jesus born in Bethlehem, and a golden star shining brightly overhead: “þe sterr’ hym schon boþe nyзt & day to lede…
Tonight, being Christmas Eve, many will indeed be welcoming in Christmas and hopefully much joy, as captured in the jolly carol recorded by W.T. Stead as “A Christmas Song”: Now thrice welcome Christmas! Which brings…
The tale unfolding in verse today, centred upon Adam disobedience in plucking an apple from the tree, is preserved in just one manuscript. Happily, that manuscript is our old friend ms Sloane, and Wright has duly…
Though early modern students at St Andrews were expected to live beneath one college roof, and eat at a common table, the presbyterian tradition, and students and masters pleading poverty, precluded any great Christmas…
Today’s advent door opens onto winters of yesteryear spent in University Hall, the University of St Andrews’ first residence for women students. The records of the “Dinna Forget” club, an informal social group of…
“It is most remarkable”, declares an aghast J.R. Planché in his ‘Cyclopædia of costume’ (1876 – 1879, rf GT510.P5), “that these most graceful and effective ornaments appeared to have been utterly ignored by all races…