52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 46: How to Make Paper Models
For this week’s blog I thought I’d have a go at paper modelling, as we have in our Copyright Deposit Collection a little work published in 1824 entitled Papyro-plastics, or […]
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Considerations Upon the Union… “from the will and humour of the people”
As we approach the fevered climax of the Scottish independence referendum, we thought it would be interesting to compare this situation with the debate surrounding the mirror-image of this referendum, […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 44: The Art of Horsemanship
For my last post I wanted to recreate something that I had a particularly keen interest in…horse riding. Having ridden since the age of 10 it seemed like a natural […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 43: How to Play Golf
While the 250,000 photographs within the Lawrence Levy Collection comprise a sizeable chunk of the Special Collections’ golf holdings, the other photographs and books hold many precious gems. One of […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 41: Drawing with a Camera Lucida
Back before the days of photography, society relied on the ‘artist’s impression’ to see people they would never meet or places they would never go. Artists used drawing aids such as mirrors, prisms, lenses, and camera…
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 40: lace making
This week’s historical how-to relates to my own interest as a bobbin lace maker and a curiosity…
MEI Internship Project Begins: a 16th century German binding mystery solved!
This summer, St Andrews began contributing information about its earliest printed books to CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula project. This project, initiated and directed by Dr Cristina Dondi, seeks to […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, week 38: how to take a 16th century bath
For this week’s how-to, I thought I’d try some 16th century recipes from the first English translation of Europe’s most popular apothecary of the 15th and 16th century. I’ve grabbed […]
52 WEEKS OF HISTORICAL HOW-TO’S, WEEK 37: How to improve your mind …
There is a scene early in Mansfield Park (1814) where Maria and Julia Bertram, then aged thirteen and twelve, deplore the ignorance of their slightly younger cousin Fanny Price. She […]
The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible: a new gift
A very recent generous gift from Bruce and Suzie Kovner to the Special Collections Division of the University Library is on display in the King James Library this weekend. The […]