In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the Kedourie papers,… Read More »The Kedourie Papers: Nationalism, minorities and the Middle East
In the second of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the archival record of… Read More »A mind of her own: the papers of Lola Mayer
In the first of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of… Read More »The Journeys of Jacob Peter Mayer and his Papers
In this blog post, Megan Briers, Mathematics and Computer Science student, shares her experience as a summer intern with the Special Collections team. The Very… Read More »The Very Rev John Lee (1779-1859)
Special Collections has been involved in a very exciting cataloguing project this year, in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History in St Andrews and… Read More »The Archive of European Intellectual Life
This is the second part of a blog series about Special Collections’ remote enquiry service, and the types of questions we answer using collections material.… Read More »Anatomy of an enquiry, part 2: historical firsts
Julie Greenhill may be a familiar name if you have ever sent an enquiry to Special Collections. Here she reflects on a key role the… Read More »The anatomy of an enquiry, part 1: unlocking answers in the archive
In the week of Remembrance Day, we are taking the opportunity to share a World War I diary from our manuscript collections. The Library’s Special… Read More »World War I Diary, Private John Barr Ewan
We are launching our new-look blog with a story about an old favourite here in St Andrews – golf. The blog has been migrated to… Read More »Women’s Golf in St Andrews
The Tullis Russell Paper Mills Collection (ms38973) contains records in a variety of formats – paper, photographic, audio tapes, VHS tapes and film reels. Previous… Read More »‘The Papermakers’ – Tullis Russell in film
Maia Sheridan, our Manuscripts Archivist, discovers our very own ‘Greatest Showman’ in one of our archive collections. Sometimes fun things happen in the archives. While… Read More »Roll up! Roll up! For all the fun of the fair!
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
