PudFest 2024: a feast of flavour
Are you tired of the same old parade of treats on your festive table? Bored stiff by yet another Bûche de Noel? Are you looking to introduce an element of thrill and peril into your party preparations which only a…
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New acquisition for Libraries and Museums: the St Andrews Chronicles
One of the most important histories of Scotland, which sheds new light on William Wallace and the Stone of Destiny, has found its permanent home with St Andrews University Libraries and Museums. A newly acquired…
History of disability – student experience
In continuation of UK Disability History month, we take another look at the University archive for stories of students living with disabilities in previous generations. In this blog we highlight the stories of students…
Bobby Jones, the Declaration of Independence and Tom Duncan: Celebrating St Andrew in Savannah
What do you get if you mix a famous golfer, an organ-paying medievalist and the Declaration of Independence? The improbable though entirely true tale of how a young lecturer came to swap St Andrews, Fife, for sunny…
Disability History – new narratives in old records
November marks the start of UK Disability History month and the opportunity to discover and learn new narratives within the University’s archives. Archivists Sarah Rodriguez and Elizabeth Thompson-MacRae have been…
A pound of raisins
It is that time of year again – costumes, raisins receipts and foam fights! The earliest records in the University’s archive relating to Raisin celebrations are from the 19th century. Student reminiscences record…
Unbe-leaf-able! A Thynne-ly disguised secret appears in a library book
In this blog PhD candidate Phoebe Macindoe discusses leaf books and a new acquisition for the Library. All the volumes in the library are made up of leaves, they are the pages that constitute the book. Some books,…
The Brontë books in the Hargreaves Collection
In this blog, Noor Zohdy, Laidlaw Scholar 2024, reports on their summer research project looking at editions of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As part of my Laidlaw research project this summer on Anne…
Conservation of a Japanese Lacquered Photograph Album
In this blog, Furniture & Wooden Artefacts Conservator Sarah Gerrish reports on conservation work carried out on a Japanese photo album from University Collections (ALB-116). As a freelance furniture and wooden…
Winner of the 2024 James David Forbes Collecting Prize: March of the Grenguins
In April of this year I found myself posing with a colony of penguins. Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone was there too. The photographer asked me to look down at the birds, and in that intimate moment, staring…