What sounds like the beginning of a bad joke in fact describes just some of our favourite finds from the first few days working on… Read More »Where can you find a 400 year old laundry list, a rhyming love note and a fragment from the King James Bible?
In this week’s blog Mary McClure, a final year Art History and Medieval History student, discusses the Book of Hours that formed the basis of… Read More »Mary’s dissertation uses one of our beautiful manuscripts
History PhD student Rory MacLellan, has been working for the last year on compiling a genealogical index from some of the St Andrews Burgh records,… Read More »Burnwynd Project – snapshots of 17th century St Andrews
As we move into May, the regular pattern of visiting classes using Special Collections materials comes to an end. We have enjoyed bringing original material… Read More »Palaeography Class Trip 2016/17
Recently, the Lighting the Past Team came across this inscription in a Greek language textbook: The discovery of this annotation provides a perfect opportunity to… Read More »A Prize Discovery: The Story of the Tullis Brothers
John Stuart Mill, arguably the most important British philosopher of the 19th century, and principal architect of philosophical utilitarianism, was elected Rector of the University… Read More »150th anniversary of John Stuart Mill’s rectorial address
Full of old memories she yet shall be Nurse of heroic men for whom the debt To that dim past is unacknowledged yet, Till Time… Read More »Remembering those lost in times of war, Christmas 1916
This week we have a one-off post by Dr Keelan Overton, reporting on her work as a Visiting Scholar during 2016. You can apply to… Read More »From an enigmatic binding stamp to a holistic reassessment: the St Andrews Qur’an
With various Christmas dinners looming, I was wondering what students might have been eating for their Christmas dinners in times past, if they were not… Read More »Christmas feasting in St Andrews
In our final post in this Historical Cooking series, Ines tries Almond Porridge. After being lured by my colleagues and my curiosity into the Renaissance… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 9: Almond Porridge
This week Catherine attempts to make Filled Pears using a recipe from book – the complete manuscript is available for viewing on our Digital Collections Portal… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 7: Filled Pears
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
