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… Read More »Bobby Jones, the Declaration of Independence and Tom Duncan: Celebrating St Andrew in Savannah
As a general rule, we do not retain examination scripts or answers in the University archive. There are a few items however that have been… Read More »There is nothing in the paper I can do…
Bringing in collections Incoming university collections are routinely checked for dirt, mould and insect activity before being cleaned, rehoused and shelved in the stores. Not… Read More »The colour aniline purple – housing silk textiles from the Calvert Chemistry Collection
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and… Read More »Notarial marks in the St Andrews burgh charters
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and… Read More »Notaries and their networks in St Andrews, 1466-1560
The United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed on the 11th of February each year to promote equal access to… Read More »International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Chemistry at St Andrews
We were delighted to be able to host two events in mid-August to support work by colleagues in the School of Divinity. On Friday 19… Read More »Summer conference season
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
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
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of… Read More »“Detritus: to keep”: Shedding light on the work of Nicholas Tindal Phillipson
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses on the work of… Read More »‘The Words You Need to Be Politically Correct’: behind conservative lines in the papers of Kenneth Minogue
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses on the work of… Read More »The Kedourie Papers: the world and work Sylvia G. Haim
