You may remember in my first blog about the Archives Revealed project Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife, I mentioned an… Read More »Mrs Margaret Mitchell Gold: Cupar’s Fairy Godmother
The University of St Andrews Library Special Collections Division routinely commissions practical conservation of damaged material from Icon-accredited conservators. As part of the division’s policy… Read More »A Day in a Bookish Cornucopia: surveying books from the Library’s Special Collections
Until Maia moved to Scotland, she had never known that macaroni cheese and pastry went together. Now, Maia knows that you can put anything in… Read More »National Pie Week: Pie-Off in Special Collections
To celebrate St Valentine’s Day this year we are featuring the Map of Matrimony, with its Kingdom of Courtship, River of Love, Dangerous Straits of… Read More »Compass of the heart: following the map of matrimony on St Valentine’s Day
Today, M Pilar Gil from the Special Collections Division of the library will be giving a paper at the International Symposium Setting their Table: Women and… Read More »Setting their Table: Women and the Periodic Table of Elements
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Victorian art critic John Ruskin (8 February 1819-20 January 1900). Born in London, John Ruskin… Read More »John Ruskin and James David Forbes
On 21st January we held our first outreach session of the year: Meet your rare anatomy books. This event gave staff and students from the… Read More »Meet your rare anatomy books
Happy New Year! Well, the time for festive present giving has now well and truly passed, but the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections… Read More »New Year, New Gifts and a chance to get involved
The Nativity of Christ from an illuminated manuscript book of hours produced in Rouen around 1470 (ms38938). The Book of Hours was a prayer book… Read More »Advent Calendar: 25 December – Nativity
Pamphlet called Remembrance produced for Christmas 1916 by Mrs Herkless, wife of Principal John Herkless, and the ladies of the University. They brought out a… Read More »Advent Calendar: 21 December – Remembrance
Hello again from the Archives Revealed project “Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife”. It has been a busy time with the… Read More »“British Restaurants” in Cupar
Ginger bread Take 4 quarts of fine flower and a pound of sweet butter and half an ounce of ginger and as much pepper beatten and… Read More »Advent Calendar: 17 December – Gingerbread
