Christmas cards were very popular during the First World War, perhaps bringing a sense of normality during a time of year when family would be… Read More »Advent Calendar: 15 December – WWI Christmas Cards
Photograph of the ‘Long Walk, St Andrews’ in snow in 1913. This image is from the papers of the Botany Department of the University of… Read More »Advent Calendar: 14 December – Long walk in the snow
In this blog post, our new project archivist introduces herself to our online community, and especially to those who live in and around Cupar. I… Read More »Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife
The next report from our 2018 Visiting Scholars is by Lee Chichester of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In this report Lee Chichester shares her research examining the… Read More »“The Debt of Art to Nature”: A Travelling Exhibition Inspired by D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
In the second of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Matthew Holmes, then of the University of Leeds, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University… Read More »An Experimental Take on D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form
This Sunday, the 11th of November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War in Western Europe. In the… Read More »Armistice and Remembrance,1918 to 2018: Part II
This Sunday, the 11th of November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War in Western Europe. Previous posts… Read More »Armistice and Remembrance, 1918 to 2018: Part I
Thanks to a generous grant from the Honeyman Foundation, Farshad Sonboldel, PhD student in modern Iranian literature, was tasked with reviewing the catalogue records for… Read More »Surprising Islamic Manuscripts at St Andrews
In the first of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Laura Doak, a graduate student working at the University of Glasgow, shares with us… Read More »Visiting Scholars 2018: James Currie’s “book of Colectiones”
Over the summer, two undergraduate students Alice Gowenlock and Indre Tuminauskaite, took part in a research internship funded by the Strathmartine Trust and the School… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Mathematics
In this week’s blog, postgraduate student Thomas Murrie shares with us some of the findings from his dissertation, the focus of which was on one… Read More »Alchemical Manuscript: The ‘Alchimiae Tractatus’, 14th century
Echoes from the Vault has looked at a few of the University of St Andrews traditions in recent years – the May dip, Raisin Monday,… Read More »The Red Gown and St Andrews
