Reading the Collections, Week 34: Kellie Law
This small manuscript, entitled Kellie Law, was chosen by the winner of the JD Forbes book collecting prize as her choice to join the collections… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 34: Kellie Law
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Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Visiting Forbes’ coloured atmospheres
James David Forbes (1809–1868) was part of an early generation of natural philosophers interested in quantifying climate and weather in order to determine how the… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Visiting Forbes’ coloured atmospheres
Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
This is what buried treasure looks like in a library: This book, which is a collection of two perfectly respectable but not very rare tracts… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
Back in June, we received our first Visiting Scholar for 2015 – Professor Kevin James of the University of Guelph. Since delivering a workshop based… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
Reading the Collections, Week 30: A Jacobite Declaration, 1715
Today, 6 September, is the 300th anniversary of the raising of the Standard of the Jacobite army at Braemar by John Erskine, 6th Earl of… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 30: A Jacobite Declaration, 1715
Reading (or Singing) the collections, week 28: A performance from the Gradual
Last Monday (10th August) Gillian Hurst, who is in the final stages of an MLitt in Mediaeval Studies, delighted an audience at St Leonards’ Chapel… Read More »Reading (or Singing) the collections, week 28: A performance from the Gradual
Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East
This week we are not really reading items from the collections, but more just admiring them, and then hoping that someone out there may be… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East
Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy Collection – Ladislav Holy (1933–1997) was a Czech anthropologist and Africanist, who came to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
“A complete victory gained with great bloodshed”
Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the British under the Duke of Wellington and their allies from the Netherlands, Hanover,… Read More »“A complete victory gained with great bloodshed”
Reading the Collections, Week 18: Student Reminiscences
I have been reading through two box files of memories of student life at St Andrews collected by Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang in the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 18: Student Reminiscences
Reading the Collections, Week 15: Diary of Isabella Lucy Bishop’s Nile Voyage
Over the past month I have found myself travelling much more than usual. Knowing that my Reading the Collections blog post would need to be… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 15: Diary of Isabella Lucy Bishop’s Nile Voyage
Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015
To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships… Read More »Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015