Open Championship in St Andrews 2022
The 150th Open Golf Championship will be held in St Andrews from 14-17 July 2022. To coincide with this event, the University, in conjunction with… Read More »Open Championship in St Andrews 2022
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RTI imaging fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’, strays from the Auchinleck manuscript
Continuing the series of blog posts on the recent RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) workshop, Phoebe MacIndoe looks at the fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng… Read More »RTI imaging fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’, strays from the Auchinleck manuscript
Conjuring the Light and Shadow in the Past: The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Workshop
The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technique opens up new horizons for the close study of the materiality of palpable objects like manuscripts. It reveals things… Read More »Conjuring the Light and Shadow in the Past: The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Workshop
RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Workshop 2 – hidden features brought into the light
At a workshop back in April I applied RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) to the processing of images of a twelfth-century parchment leaf and found some… Read More »RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Workshop 2 – hidden features brought into the light
The St Andrew manuscript ‘cutting’ and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI)
As light glimmers over the fifteenth-century illuminated initial, the calm and focused expression on the face of our university’s eponym St Andrew remains unchanged.… Read More »The St Andrew manuscript ‘cutting’ and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI)
Scotland and France: an ‘Auld Alliance’ of two equals?
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts… Read More »Scotland and France: an ‘Auld Alliance’ of two equals?
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four… Read More »The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
Folger Symposium – ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’
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’
People, place, past: How photographers explore identity
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
Women’s History in St Andrews University Collections
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
Medieval Pilgrimage to St Andrews
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
World Book Day – Silver Anniversary
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