Advent Calendar: 7 December – A Christmas Carol
Title page and frontispiece from A Christmas Carol in prose by Charles Dickens, c.1885 (s PR4557.C5). A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, to give the […]
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Advent Calendar: 6 December – Robin
Illustration of the robin or robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) from the hand-coloured engraved plates of Prideaux John Selby’s Illustrations of British ornithology, published in 1841 (rfx QL690.S3 Volume 1). Selby…
Advent Calendar: 5 December – Christmas Pantomime
Engraved illustration by Robert Seymour of a pantomime performance in Thomas Hervey’s The book of Christmas, published in 1836 (s GT4895.H2). Pantomime is a musical comedy stage show which has […]
Advent Calendar: 4 December – Winter Fashion
Illustration of English fashion for the month of December in 1832, from The Royal Lady’s Magazine and Archives of the Court of St. James’s (rper AP4.R6L2 Volume IV). In the […]
Advent Calendar: 2 December – Christmas Rose
Christmas Rose or Helleborus niger from the first volume of Curtis’s botanical magazine, 1787 (rper QK1.C8M2 Volume 1). Despite its name, the Christmas Rose is not really a Rose but is […]
Advent Calendar: 1 December – The booke of common prayer
This year Echoes from the Vault will be posting an image of winter or Christmas from our collections every day from the 1st to 25th December. We hope you enjoy […]
His Bloody Project: A Historical Commentary
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of St Andrews’ Booker Prize Project, where all new undergraduate students are given access to a novel which has been shortlisted […]
Rebel Women – Women’s Liberation Movement in the Aien
Next week the University Library will have on display a selection of items from our Special Collections (in facsimile) celebrating the women who have opposed the norms of their day […]
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 […]
Scottish Natural Philosopher – George Sinclair [?1630]-1696
George Sinclair was one of the earliest British writers on hydrostatics and published The hydrostaticks in 1672. At the time, Sinclair’s work was criticised by James Gregory and William Sanders […]