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
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
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)
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?
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
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’
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
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
