Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife
In this blog post, our new project archivist introduces herself to our online community, and especially to those who live in and around Cupar. I am pleased to meet you. […]
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“The Debt of Art to Nature”: A Travelling Exhibition Inspired by D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
The next report from our 2018 Visiting Scholars is by Dr Lee Chichester of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In this report Dr Chichester shares her research examining how D’Arcy Thompson’s immersion into […]
An Experimental Take on D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
In the second of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Matthew Holmes, then of the University of Leeds, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, shares with us […]
Armistice and Remembrance,1918 to 2018: Part II
This Sunday, the 11th of November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War in Western Europe. In the first part of this post […]
Armistice and Remembrance, 1918 to 2018: Part I
This Sunday, the 11th of November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War in Western Europe. Previous posts on Echoes have looked at […]
Surprising Islamic Manuscripts at St Andrews
Thanks to a generous grant from the Honeyman Foundation, Farshad Sonboldel, PhD student in modern Iranian literature, was tasked with reviewing the catalogue records for the Persian and Arabic manuscripts […]
Visiting Scholars 2018: James Currie’s “book of Colectiones”
In the first of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Laura Doak, a graduate student working at the University of Glasgow, shares with us her thoughts on James Currie’s […]
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Mathematics
Over the summer, two undergraduate students Alice Gowenlock and Indre Tuminauskaite, took part in a research internship funded by the Strathmartine Trust and the School of Mathematics and Statistics. The […]
Alchemical Manuscript: The ‘Alchimiae Tractatus’, 14th century
In this week’s blog, postgraduate student Thomas Murrie shares with us some of the findings from his dissertation, the focus of which was on one of the Library’s manuscripts – […]
The Red Gown and St Andrews
Echoes from the Vault has looked at a few of the University of St Andrews traditions in recent years – the May dip, Raisin Monday, orientation, matriculation, examinations, Rector’s Installation […]