Lawrence Levy Golf Photography Project comes to an end
This week sees the culmination of a five-year project undertaken by the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library with the rounding up of the Lawrence Levy […]
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2017 Visiting Scholarship: women in the early history of photography
In the third of our reports, Caroline Douglas, AHRC TECHNE funded doctoral student at the Royal College of Art, London, shares with us some of her findings during her University Library […]
David Hacker-Fleming, a golfing life
One writer of this blog post loves golf and not David Hay Fleming; the other loves David Hay Fleming and not golf. So, what brings them together? Well, that would […]
Victoria R: the “first media monarch” of modern Britain
The Library’s Special Collections has recently acquired ten cartes de visite depicting members of the British royal family in the 1860s. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert feature prominently, but they […]
Orientation Week, September 2017
It’s Orientation Week! Welcome to all new and returning students. So you’re new to St Andrews? Look at our Orientation 2017 pages where you’ll find loads of information about everything […]
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 […]
Scottish Design and Innovation at St Andrews Photography Festival 2017
Eddie reflects on his quirky selection of photographs which will be on display in an outdoor exhibition on The Scores, during the St Andrews Photography Festival (1-30 September 2017). For […]
St Andrews Photography Festival: Valentine’s Scottish Islands
This is the first of three posts highlighting images from the Library’s photographic collections to be featured in the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1-30 September 2017. The exhibition on […]
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 […]
New Acquisitions: Catching the Tide
Last weekend we were delighted to receive officially our Catching the Tide acquisition from photographer Colin McPherson. From the moment we first saw this iconic image,we knew this series of […]