Today the University is holding graduation ceremonies for St Andrews University graduates in the Sciences. St Andrews has a strong history of science teaching and… Read More »Graduation Week, Celebrating Honorands: from electricity to the World Wide Web
As we congratulate our students across the Divinity, English, Psychology and International Relations subject areas who graduate today at undergraduate and postgraduate level, we present… Read More »Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: Great thinkers and writers
At the start of this special week in the University we are beginning a mini-series of blog posts to mark graduation. Each day we will… Read More »Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: some history
On Saturday 3rd June, fifty attendees came together from across the globe to take part in the international David Mitchell Conference 2017 at the University… Read More »David Mitchell Conference 2017 visits Special Collections
It’s with great pleasure that we are able to pass on good news about the ‘Opening Up Scotland’s Archives’ scheme, in which Special Collections is… Read More »Skills for the Future Archival traineeships recognised in national awards
Another book has appeared, based primarily on the rich resources available in Special Collections. Crail and its Fisheries, 1550-1600 is the first publication of the… Read More »Crail and its Fisheries, 1550-1600
We recently put on a display for the ‘Scotland and the Flemish People’ conference, which focussed on the relationship between Scotland and Flanders, primarily in… Read More »Scotland and the Flemish People
This is the third post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: The Weighing Machine (Franki Raffles, 1989)
On Wednesday the 20th of April we held a Show and Tell in the Martyrs Kirk New Park Seminar Room – “Buccaneers and Buried Gold:… Read More »Show and Tell: Buccaneers and Buried Gold: Treasure from the Lighting the Past Project
As part of the 3-day conference celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Ben Jonson’s first Folio of Works, delegates from the conference ‘Dare… Read More »‘Dare to Tell’: Silence and Saying in Ben Jonson 400th Anniversary Conference of Jonson’s first Folio of Works
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
On Saturday we welcomed to Special Collections a group who had stayed on in Scotland after the joint meeting of the Linnaeus Link and European… Read More »Botanic Garden Visit to Special Collections
