The United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed on the 11th of February each year to promote equal access to… Read More »International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Chemistry at St Andrews
On the birthday of Dr Elsie Maud Inglis, we share with you some of the highlights from the records of University Hall (the first female… Read More »Dr Elsie Maud Inglis (1864-1917) and Scottish Women’s Hospitals
There has been a lot of research interest in the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson in the last few years. 2017 marked the centenary of… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson as teacher
Sometimes new discoveries can be made in documents which have been in the collection for some time. msDA783.6J1M7 (ms666) was bequeathed to the University of… Read More »The moral shabbiness of King James I of Scotland
Today is the 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston, who died on the 4th April 1617. Widely regarded as… Read More »Marvellous Merchiston: 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston
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
Here, our Lighting the Past team complete the story of their recent adventures uncovering the story of one of our new finds. Provenance of a… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 5, part II: A beginners’ guide to uncovering rare book treasures: the journey of a 500 year old book
Here two of our Lighting the Past project cataloguers retrace their exciting journey of discovery as they uncover the story of one of our new… Read More »Where We Find New Old Books, Chapter 5, part I: A beginners’ guide to uncovering rare book treasures: a 500-year-long tale between Parisian pages
Once again external funding for a cataloguing project (the Henderson Bequest) has thrown into the light another hidden gem in the Special Collections of the… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 4: William Creech and a new first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
In the previous instalment, Kieran gave us some highlights from the general Reserve Collection, which Lighting the Past recently finished cataloguing. A collection of this… Read More »Lighting the Past: The Reserve Collection, Part 2
After beginning on the 7th November 2013, the Lighting the Past Team has finally finished the general Reserve Collection, 54 weeks later, on the 21st… Read More »Lighting the Past: The Reserve Collection, Part 1
More than any other poet of late medieval Scotland, Gavin Douglas delighted in writing about the books he had read: the reputations of their authors,… Read More »SPECIAL COLLECTIONS VISITING SCHOLARS – BOCCACCIO IN SCOTLAND
