52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 25: Easter Baking
Well, this week’s post has been more challenging than expected. It started life as a blog about decorating churches for Easter. Although I have no doubt there is material about […]
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52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 24: Singing the Collections
This week’s blog is about the fun we have had singing together, learning songs chosen from the undiscovered riches of the Library’s music holdings. We have explored the hidden depths […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 23: Dressmaking
For this week’s historical how-to, we return to the early 19th century with a book entitled, Sectum: the universal directory in the art of cutting, by Robert Byfield. (London: printed […]
TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Professor Christopher Given-Wilson on Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. For this […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 22: An experiment in early 19th century hen-keeping
When I told my flock of hens they were going to take part in a Historical How-To and be fed an early 19th c poultry diet for a week, they […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 21: Calligraphy
For this week’s historical how-to, we’re taking a look at David Browne’s The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, The arte of faire writing. Printed right here in St Andrews in […]
Highlights from the Reading Room: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
As part of my research for Maria Edgeworth: A Political Biography (to be published by Pickering and Chatto in 2017), I have spent a few very pleasurable days reading the […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s: Week 20, Iron Gall Ink
When the idea for the 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s came to light I thought it made sense to explore the subject of ink. From manuscripts to books, and even […]
TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Luke Gartlan on John Thomson’s Through Cyprus with a Camera
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. For this […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 19: Diderot’s Encyclopédie and the art of making paper
This week’s blog focuses upon one of the greatest works of the Enlightenment and 18th century – the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert. In scope nothing like it […]