On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of… Read More »Folger Symposium – ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’
This blog is a re-post from our old University Museums blog, and has been uploaded to this page to re-unite the research and work of… Read More »People, place, past: How photographers explore identity
Staff and research students of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research have put together an online mini-exhibition to highlight some of the collection items available… Read More »Women’s History in St Andrews University Collections
This blog is a re-post from our old University Museums blog, and has been uploaded to this page to re-unite the research and work of… Read More »Medieval Pilgrimage to St Andrews
Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, an initiative to promote reading for pleasure and a celebration of books. Here at the… Read More »World Book Day – Silver Anniversary
In Spring 2020 I submitted an entry to the J.D. Forbes competition. My entry, loosely based on my PhD research, was titled From Salt to… Read More »Winning the 2021 James D. Forbes Collecting Prize
Maia Sheridan, Manuscripts Archivist, reports on leading an international effort to tackle a huge archive on international terrorism. For those of you used to getting… Read More »Global History of Terrorism Archive
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to… Read More »Basilikon dōron, or His Maiesties instrvctions to his dearest sonne, Henry the prince
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to… Read More »John Knox and ‘A godly letter’: An Attack on Marian Catholicism
For the final image, we are back to the St Andrews coastline on a snowy day c.1990. This image is from the University Photography collection,… Read More »December 25 – St Andrews Castle in the snow
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) came from an extended family of natural historians, illustrators and conchologists. The Thesaurus Conchyliorum, a comprehensive work on molluscs, was… Read More »December 24 – Sowerby’s A conchological manual
Already featured in this blog series, The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833… Read More »December 23 – The white whale, c.1837
