St Andrews Photography Festival: Scots on the Green
In this final focus on the Library’s exhibitions for the St Andrews Photo Festival, 1-30 September 2017, we feature images of golf. Throughout Scotland, golf is ubiquitous. That’s not to […]
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St Andrews Photography Festival Returns this September!
Preparations for the second St Andrews Photography Festival are well underway. This year we are looking at ‘Scots at Home’, a theme that allows for many interpretations and approaches. Our […]
St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme
This is the final post in our series about the St Andrews Photography Festival – you can see the previous posts in the series below: Robert Moyes Adam: Golf Photographic […]
St Andrews Photography Festival: Golf Photographic Collection
This is the fourth post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest]. Four gentlemen golfers…
Reading the Collections, Week 38: Precognition Statements, Receipts, and the Making of ‘St Andrews – In The Footsteps of Old Tom Morris’
This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from 1800s to 1920. He made use […]
Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
In the 1980s there was precious little golf on the TV in the UK. There was no internet and the newspapers were, with the exception of Today, black and white […]
And the winner is..
These lovely Tudor chaps messing about with balls and clubs remind us of the long…
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…
Library closure during The Open Golf Championship
View image | gettyimages.com The University Library (including the Main Library, Martyrs Kirk Research Library, JF Allen Library, and St Mary’s College Library) will be closed from Thursday 16th July to Sunday 19th…