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
Part III of Henry Noltie’s trip through the Western Himalayas: Sent 2nd September 2014 In a very rainy McLeod Ganj (which would better known as… Read More »FOLLOWING HUGH CLEGHORN TO THE WESTERN HIMALAYA – PART III
A few weeks ago we featured a guest blog from Henry Noltie who is currently retracing the journey of Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya (Following… Read More »Following Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya – Part II
Another in our occasional series of blogs from those using our collections in our Reading Room … For about five years I have been working… Read More »Following Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya
My research on life in medieval and early modern St Andrews has given me the opportunity to work at the new Special Collections Reading Room… Read More »Highlights from the Reading Room: Burgh of St Andrews Trade Guilds
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Martin Milner on D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s personal copy of On Growth and Form
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around… Read More »Highlight from the stacks: Kircher’s Tower of Babel (1679)
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
In the 1970s, the Department of Special Collections took in the vast archive of the commercial photographic company known as Valentines of Dundee. This internationally… Read More »Genealogical research on the Valentine family reveals confirmed portrait of Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones… Read More »A conundrum solved, collectively: a 15th century Italian manuscript identified
It has been known that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their quest to open up University medical education for women, had written to the… Read More »Discovery in archives sheds new light on Jex-Blake’s campaign for medical education for women
