Title page and frontispiece from A Christmas Carol in prose by Charles Dickens, c.1885 (s PR4557.C5). A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story… Read More »Advent Calendar: 7 December – A Christmas Carol
Illustration of the robin or robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) from the hand-coloured engraved plates of Prideaux John Selby’s Illustrations of British ornithology, published in 1841… Read More »Advent Calendar: 6 December – Robin
Engraved illustration by Robert Seymour of a pantomime performance in Thomas Hervey’s The book of Christmas, published in 1836 (s GT4895.H2). Pantomime is a musical… Read More »Advent Calendar: 5 December – Christmas Pantomime
Illustration of English fashion for the month of December in 1832, from The Royal Lady’s Magazine and Archives of the Court of St. James’s (rper… Read More »Advent Calendar: 4 December – Winter Fashion
Christmas Rose or Helleborus niger from the first volume of Curtis’s botanical magazine, 1787 (rper QK1.C8M2 Volume 1). Despite its name, the Christmas Rose is not… Read More »Advent Calendar: 2 December – Christmas Rose
This year Echoes from the Vault will be posting an image of winter or Christmas from our collections every day from the 1st to 25th… Read More »Advent Calendar: 1 December – The booke of common prayer
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of St Andrews’ Booker Prize Project, where all new undergraduate students are given access to a… Read More »His Bloody Project: A Historical Commentary
Next week the University Library will have on display a selection of items from our Special Collections (in facsimile) celebrating the women who have opposed… Read More »Rebel Women – Women’s Liberation Movement in the Aien
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
George Sinclair was one of the earliest British writers on hydrostatics and published The hydrostaticks in 1672. At the time, Sinclair’s work was criticised by… Read More »Scottish Natural Philosopher – George Sinclair [?1630]-1696
In the latest blog from the Preserving the World’s Rarest Books project, Michela Petris, a student studying at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy… Read More »500 years of Aldines in Europe: A View From St Andrews
2018 marks the 200th Anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. In honour of this anniversary, Dr Katie Garner of the School of English… Read More »Frankenstein in St Andrews
