Reading the Collections, Week 44: The Mackenzie Correspondence, 1685-1691
I wonder yow writ not to mee. Like so many parents or guardians of young people at university, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was not impressed by his nephew […]
I wonder yow writ not to mee. Like so many parents or guardians of young people at university, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was not impressed by his nephew […]
To begin the New Year in this week’s Reading the Collections blog we take a look at the amusing children’s stories by Edgar Primrose Dickie (1897–1991); a man who had […]
My earliest exposure to this seminal work of Dickens was a film adaptation notable for being performed by a cast of singing muppets. Since then I’ve seen straight adaptations, parodies, […]
Whilst browsing the shelves one day, I noticed a book by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) – The Nutcracker. I was immediately intrigued, as I (perhaps foolishly) hadn’t realised that this tale […]
Over the past few weeks there’s been a series of letters to the London Review of Books discussing the phenomenon of ‘cross generational vaulting’ – anecdotes passed down through generations […]
I must’ve been 14 or 15 when my parents brought home a piece of software that would literally change their professional lives and would become an everyday tool of my […]
This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from 1800s to 1920. He made use […]
The re-discovery of the sailing journal of Skipper Alexander Gillespie ms38352, who sailed out of Elie in Fife in the mid-17th century, made the news in 2002. At that time […]
Alexander Govan was a chemist and druggist in St Andrews during the 1840s and 1850s. With the new art of photography then in its infancy, he supplied chemicals to the […]
This small manuscript, entitled Kellie Law, was chosen by the winner of the JD Forbes book collecting prize as her choice to join the collections (read the full version here). […]