Tag: 19th century
Day 351. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
16th July 1860:
Monday 16th . We had a nice breeze from the…
The Open comes to St Andrews
Since the Open Golf Championships are here again in St Andrews this week, and there are golfers everywhere, here’s a photo of Old Tom Morris eyeing up his putt on the Old Course, c.1890. This is from a lovely…
Reading the collections, week 2: Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) & Catriona (1893)
“Ay, it’s an unco place, the Bass” When I first moved to Scotland, over four years ago, we chose to find a place to live in one of the small […]
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 33: The Art of Stained Glass
Special Collections contains a number of publications and collected archives relating to the production and design of stained glass. As an aspiring stained glass artist I decided to look through […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 26: Brewing Scurvy Grass Ale!
This week’s How-to post gave an excuse for our two departmental home-brewers, Marc and Daryl, to stretch their boundaries to adapt a strange recipe for “Scurvy-grass Ale” found in an […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 22: An experiment in early 19th century hen-keeping
When I told my flock of hens they were going to take part in a Historical How-To and be fed an early 19th c poultry diet for a week, they […]
TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Luke Gartlan on John Thomson’s Through Cyprus with a Camera
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. For this […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 13: Burns Night
Recipes from Meg Dods’ Cook and Housewife’s Manual have featured in a couple of earlier posts in this series, but Burns Night (25 January) provides the perfect excuse to explore […]