Advent Calendar: 7 December – A Christmas Carol
Title page and frontispiece from A Christmas Carol in prose by Charles Dickens, c.1885 (s PR4557.C5). A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, to give the […]
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Advent Calendar: 6 December – Robin
Illustration of the robin or robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) from the hand-coloured engraved plates of Prideaux John Selby’s Illustrations of British ornithology, published in 1841 (rfx QL690.S3 Volume 1). Selby…
Advent Calendar: 5 December – Christmas Pantomime
Engraved illustration by Robert Seymour of a pantomime performance in Thomas Hervey’s The book of Christmas, published in 1836 (s GT4895.H2). Pantomime is a musical comedy stage show which has […]
Advent Calendar: 4 December – Winter Fashion
Illustration of English fashion for the month of December in 1832, from The Royal Lady’s Magazine and Archives of the Court of St. James’s (rper AP4.R6L2 Volume IV). In the […]
Advent Calendar: 3 December – Skiing on Jacob’s Ladder
Photograph of Professor and Mrs Dickie skiing on Jacob’s ladder [North Haugh], St Andrews in 1950 (GMC-19-75-2). Edgar Primrose Dickie was Professor of Divinity at St Andrews University from 1935-1967. […]
Advent Calendar: 2 December – Christmas Rose
Christmas Rose or Helleborus niger from the first volume of Curtis’s botanical magazine, 1787 (rper QK1.C8M2 Volume 1). Despite its name, the Christmas Rose is not really a Rose but is […]
Advent Calendar: 1 December – The booke of common prayer
This year Echoes from the Vault will be posting an image of winter or Christmas from our collections every day from the 1st to 25th December. We hope you enjoy […]
Remembering those lost in times of war, Christmas 1916
Full of old memories she yet shall be Nurse of heroic men for whom the debt To that dim past is unacknowledged yet, Till Time shall set their names in […]
Christmas feasting in St Andrews
With various Christmas dinners looming, I was wondering what students might have been eating for their Christmas dinners in times past, if they were not lucky enough to be going […]
Opening hours over winter vacation
Below are our opening times over December and January. Main Library Building* December: Thursday 17th, 0800 – 1800 Friday 18th, 0800 – 1600 Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th, 1000 – 1700 Monday 21st – Thursday 24th, 0900 –…