600 Years of Book Collecting, Limited Edition Boxed Set – now available!
The limited edition boxed set of 600 Years of Book Collecting is now available! Released on St Andrews Day, 2013, the boxed set brings together the all six issues of […]
Category: University Collections
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 6: Victorian Christmas decorations from the Girl’s Own Annual
Christmas was not much a family festivity until Queen Victoria posed with her children around a laden fir tree, a tradition Prince Albert had brought with him from Germany. The […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 5: Stir up Sunday
I am starting this blog post on Sunday 24 November 2013 and the date is significant – it is a day when work and home life have intersected, as this […]
Lighting the Past: The Crombie Collection
The Lighting the Past team has completed its fourth collection to date! This collection belonged to the Reverend Frederick Crombie and was donated to the Library by his sister in […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 4: The Complete Servant
Many items which appear in our blogs are visually stunning. The focus of this blog, The Complete Servant, by Samuel and Sarah Adams, is certainly not this. Acquired by the […]
Exposing the Photographic Book Collection: a summer amongst the stacks
Earlier this summer I was lucky enough to spend a few months writing catalogue entries for some of the works held in the new Photographic Books Collection. This was a […]
Happy Gavin Douglas Day! Celebrating 500 years of The Eneados
Today, the Scottish Poetry Library and the Writer’s Museum are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the completion of Gavin Douglas‘s The Eneados. Douglas, a Scottish prelate and poet, was born […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 3: Talbot’s Photogenic Drawing in The Pencil of Nature
From well before the time when William Henry Fox Talbot ventured into the realm of photographic experiments, the effects of silver nitrate, salts and light were known to several men […]
University Library Announces Visiting Scholarship Scheme
To celebrate the opening the new Martyrs Kirk Research Library, the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships will underwrite the costs […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 2: Mrs Edwards’s cook book
We bought this recipe book at auction recently, and it arrived with no provenance information. However, from the names and places mentioned, I have worked out that it belonged to […]