June brings in the summer and memories of the summer holidays. Using the guidebooks and photographs from our collections, in this post, we take a… Read More »A trip down memory lane – summer time in St Andrews
An exhibition looking at hazardous substances found in historic bindings is currently on display at the Research Studio in the Wardlaw Museum. This blog highlights… Read More »Poisonous books – Dangers from the past
This blog was first issued as an article in St Andrews in Focus. Students at the University of St Andrews in the 19th century aspired… Read More »University of St Andrews Prize Books
In this blog PhD candidate Phoebe Macindoe discusses leaf books and a new acquisition for the Library. All the volumes in the library are made… Read More »Unbe-leaf-able! A Thynne-ly disguised secret appears in a library book
In this blog, Noor Zohdy, Laidlaw Scholar 2024, reports on their summer research project looking at editions of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.… Read More »The Brontë books in the Hargreaves Collection
In this blog Farah Wallauer outlines a 2023 summer project which was made possible through funding from the Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology… Read More »Urania Propitia by Maria Cunitz
In October 1942, the University Librarian George H Bushnell, amused the University Celtic Society with a ghost story which, according to the society minutes, was… Read More »‘A Handful of Ghosts’ – ghost stories from the University Librarian
This year is the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley’s work Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first volume published by an African… Read More »Finding Phillis: The First African American Author
A blog post by Elizabeth Hayslett, volunteer in University Collections. The history of the University of St Andrews spans over 600 years, and St Andrews… Read More »Preparing ‘The Ricardian’ for access – review of a conservation volunteering placement
On the 8th July 2023, the University Libraries and Museums hosted an exhibit for the Fifth International Congress of the John Gower Society. We displayed… Read More »Fifth International Congress of the John Gower Society
Can’t find the book you want in the library? You can request it through the more books service. Many students and members of staff have… Read More »More books in the Library
This week is World Gaelic Week (Seachdain na Gàidhlig) – an initiative to celebrate Scottish Gaelic across the globe. In this blog we highlight some… Read More »Scottish Gaelic in the Collections
