Historical Cooking: Introduction
This is the first post in a new miniseries on historical cooking, in which we will be recreating dishes from a 17th century recipe book. Which archive assistant doesn’t enjoy […]
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The Regiam Majestatem
Special Collections was recently able to ‘bring home’ an exciting copy of the key Scottish legal text. The manuscript of Regiam Majestatem, written in Lowland Scots, dated 18 October 1548, and […]
New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament where I saw his large […]
Reading the Collections, Week 48: David Mitchell / Kai & Sunny collaboration
The University of St Andrews’ new Special Collections acquisition, Caught By The Nest (2013), is an A3-sized art-meets-fiction collaboration by design team Kai and Sunny, and British author David Mitchell. The […]
Reading the Collections, Week 40: Tullis Russell Oral History Collection
Over the past few weeks there’s been a series of letters to the London Review of Books discussing the phenomenon of ‘cross generational vaulting’ – anecdotes passed down through generations […]
Reading the Collections, Week 39: Rejlander’s ‘The two ways of life’ (c. 1857)
I must’ve been 14 or 15 when my parents brought home a piece of software that would literally change their professional lives and would become an everyday tool of my […]
Ceremony for Winners of JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize
Winners of the University Library’s inaugural book collecting prize were celebrated at an event in Parliament Hall last week. Our JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize is named in honour of […]
Tullis Russell Business Papers
News of the closure of the paper mill Tullis Russell at Markinch in June was greeted with shock and dismay, both for the loss of jobs and livelihoods and for […]
New acquisitions spotlight: Malory’s History of King Arthur (1634)
The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine was the last seventeenth-century edition of Thomas Malory’s great medieval prose romance, the Morte Darthur. After […]
New Acquisitions: Hand-coloured 1589 Luther Bible
Earlier this year the rare books team acquired a significant, and rather pretty, addition to its developing Bible Collection. This Bible, a 1589 folio production of Luther’s edition, was […]