In previous blogs, we have featured reports from the Logjam project highlighting our active management of our archival collections through the appraisal and cataloguing of… Read More »Greta Michie: connections between Glenesk and St Andrews reinvigorated
Paula, who is volunteering to help with the Archives Revealed project on Cupar’s history tells us about her experiences. I have lived in and around… Read More »Cupar Burgh Records – From a Volunteer’s Perspective
The School of Art History, SAIMS and the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library are pleased to announce an upcoming two-day… Read More »Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages
Christine Wood brings us up to date on the latest outreach activities of the Archives Revealed Hidden Archives of Cupar project. It’s been a while… Read More »Archives Revealed: Letting the People Know
Within the Burgh of Cupar charters collection (B13) is a document dated 5 April 1487 recording the marking of the boundaries of land belonging to… Read More »Defining the boundaries: protection through housing and minimizing handling
The papers of the late Professor Alex Danchev (1955-2016), Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews from 2014 to his death in 2016, have… Read More »New Catalogue: Papers of Professor Alexander Danchev
In the process of cataloguing archive collections one can come across the most unexpected and delightful documents. One such find is a small collection of… Read More »Putting Pen to Paper: Love Letters in the Tullis Russell Business Archive
Back in September 2015 we announced on Echoes the acquisition of the Tullis Russell business papers which complement the extensive archive collection of Sir David… Read More »Tullis Russell Collection: Project Update
Full of old memories she yet shall be Nurse of heroic men for whom the debt To that dim past is unacknowledged yet, Till Time… Read More »Remembering those lost in times of war, Christmas 1916
For a month I have been the Digital Humanities Intern, during which time I’ve been lucky enough to call the beautiful Napier Reading Room of… Read More »Digital Humanities Internship
A few weeks ago, Fiona Menzies, our project cataloguer, gave a talk to colleagues, providing an outline of her work on the David Hay Fleming… Read More »Cataloguing the papers of David Hay Fleming: St Andrean, local historian and antiquarian
Every February our reading room is busy with first year students researching the history of the town and University in preparation for their interviews as… Read More »90th Anniversary Kate Kennedy Procession, 9 April 2016
