St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
This is the fifth post in a weekly series that highlights images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September… Read More »St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
This is the fifth post in a weekly series that highlights images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September… Read More »St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
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 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
Last week I travelled down to Cardiff, along with two 19th century books from our collections, to take part in what promised to be a… Read More »The Starry Messenger: two rare books head to Wales for a day in the limelight
Regular users of Special Collections will know that over the last 5 years or so we have been promising that our new Archive Catalogue was… Read More »At last! New Archive Catalogue finally online
In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work… Read More »Theft, vandalism and hatred: 400 years of bad behaviour in the King James Library, part 2
In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work… Read More »Theft, vandalism and hatred: 400 years of bad behaviour in the King James Library, part 1
On the 15th of May, 1617, King James VI & I landed at Port ‘Seatown’ (now Seton) to begin what would be his only homecoming… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 12: the typographical beauty of “The Muses welcome” (1618)