Day 372. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
6th August 1860:
6th August 1860:
16th July 1860:
Monday 16th . We had a nice breeze from the…
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…
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]