It seems fitting in the week of St Andrews’ own poetry festival, StAnza, to feature one of our literary collections. I have chosen Willa Muir, poet,… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 51: Mrs Muir and Mrs Muttoe
This is what buried treasure looks like in a library: This book, which is a collection of two perfectly respectable but not very rare tracts… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
News of the closure of the paper mill Tullis Russell at Markinch in June was greeted with shock and dismay, both for the loss of… Read More »Tullis Russell Business Papers
Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy Collection – Ladislav Holy (1933–1997) was a Czech anthropologist and Africanist, who came to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the British under the Duke of Wellington and their allies from the Netherlands, Hanover,… Read More »“A complete victory gained with great bloodshed”
On Sunday morning (10th May) a number of burgeoning and talented artists gathered at the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther for the workshop entitled ‘Faces from… Read More »Faces from the Past: Whaling portraits workshop
This week, the Historical How-To’s return for a brief encore. Since the Mince Pie Bake-Off last Christmas was such a success, the staff here at… Read More »Historical How-To’s, Special Holiday Edition: The Great Gingerbread Bake-Off
We’ve sadly come to the end of our year long exploration of our collections. We’ve had tremendous fun getting to know obscure corners of our… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 52: A Special Scrapbook and Commonplace Book
Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
When you are known as the whaling archivist here at Special Collections, it can be difficult to come up with a historical how-to which will… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-to’s, Week 49: How to Write a Whaling Report
The moment you login to Facebook you are faced with an up-to-the-second archive of vacation photographs, pet videos, political screes, and daily frustrations of your… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Friending Cicero
I am ashamed to say that, despite being a long-term traveller on the East Coast Main Line and spending much of my doctorate on trains between… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Chris Langley’s Reflections
