Votes for Women 2018: Part I – Background to the Women’s Movement
2018 is an important year for the commemoration of the struggle for women’s suffrage. A number of anniversaries of key events in the history of votes for women are celebrated […]
Tag: Rare Book Collection
Copyright ABCs – ‘The Scots Musical Museum’
The Lighting the Past team share their highlights from the ‘M’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts in the series here. While cataloguing the […]
Washing ‘the Bosphore’ and attaching Oriental sketches 2: treatment and results
In part I of this post, we saw the pre-treatment condition of ‘Le Bosphore’ and ‘Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt’. In part II, the Library’s Preventive Conservator explains the […]
Washing ‘the Bosphore’ and attaching Oriental sketches 1: before treatment
To start the New Year, we take a look at the conservation work carried out on two of our rare books, in this two-part blog. Two treasures from the Library’s […]
The Great Plum Pudding ‘Bake’-Off
Four more sleeps till Christmas. The mental background burble of the culinary checklist is getting louder. Make pastry. Bake biscuits for gingerbread house. Make mince pies. Prove stollen. Decorate Christmas […]
David Pearson workshop on ‘Provenance in Books’
On 21-22 November, Special Collections welcomed David Pearson, former Director of Culture, Heritage & Libraries for the City of London Corporation and author of Provenance Research in Book History (1994), […]
A trip to the book doctor for a broken spine
A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes in Prose and Meeter, printed in Edinburgh by Andro Hart in 1617 was presented to Special Collections by Roger and Frances Stewart […]
Winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2017
The winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2017, Arthur der Weduwen, tells us about his collection… My book collection attempts to offer a representative sample of the cheap and […]
Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative Annual Lecture 2017
The Annual Lecture of the Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative is to be delivered this year by author Sarah Waters (5:30pm 15th November, Booth Lecture Theatre, Medical Building). Waters […]
‘Ten Minutes in Murderland’. Horror and Sensationalism in The St Andrews Citizen, Week 2: Electrical Executions
This is the second of our mini blog series featuring sensational headlines from The St Andrews Citizen newspaper. Spoiler alert: contains graphic descriptions of death by electrocution – not for the […]