Exploring the rare books brought to light through a simple search for “carols” brought up a few oddballs, and this is one of them. This… Read More »December 4th – A Christmas Carol (but not that one)
Today’s choice is taken from the charmingly titled “The poets’ Christmas: a collection of carols, poems, and plays for Christmastide. With a plea for a… Read More »December 3rd – Nautical or nice…
The St Andrews student newspaper “College Echoes” from December 1925 provides what is simply described as a “traditional carol”: “Carol, carol, merrily, Christ is born… Read More »December 2nd – Carolling at St Andrews
When dark mornings bring the first glimmer of frost, bare branches shudder in the cold wind, and dusk settles in after lunch, it can mean… Read More »Advent Calendar 2025
St Andrew’s day (30th November), historically a feast day for Andrew the apostle, officially became a bank holiday in Scotland in 2007. Previous blogs have… Read More »‘Unhappy St Andrew’s Day’?
In this blog, Assistant Curator Struan Watson shares some insights into the journey of the Eduardo Paolozzi Archive, from ‘The Krazy Kat’ to our most… Read More »Eduardo Paolozzi and the University of St Andrews
Dr Manon C Williams is a historian of medicine and alumni of the University of St Andrews, School of History (2024). Working in collaboration with… Read More »Early Medical Alumni at St Andrews
In this blog, Pamela Dobson, People and Diversity Executive Officer at the University of St Andrews, reflects on her experience of working on the ‘Visualising… Read More »Listening to the echoes from outside our vault: Visualising Scotland’s Future at the Wardlaw Museum
In this blog, masters student Elizabeth Beattie shares some of her research into the women of St Andrews, supported by funding from the St Andrews… Read More »Women’s activities in seventeenth-century St Andrews: the evidence of the Kirk Sessions
In this blog, masters student Ellen Robertson takes a look at a copy of the ‘The whole booke of Psalmes’ in University Collections, which formed… Read More »Sternhold and Whittingham’s Metrical Psalms
In this blog, Matt Sheard, Head of Experience and Engagement, shares his initial thoughts and designer insights into Xanita, a fully recycled and recyclable material.… Read More »We built this city on (rock and roll) cardboard???
In this blog, Dr Ian Lawson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, shares how his and his colleagues’ research into sustainability… Read More »StACCS: shaping the new ‘Rewrite the Future’ exhibition
