My earliest exposure to this seminal work of Dickens was a film adaptation notable for being performed by a cast of singing muppets. Since then… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 42: A Christmas Carol
Whilst browsing the shelves one day, I noticed a book by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) – The Nutcracker. I was immediately intrigued, as I (perhaps foolishly)… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 41: The Nutcracker – a story for Christmas
Over the past few weeks there’s been a series of letters to the London Review of Books discussing the phenomenon of ‘cross generational vaulting’ –… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 40: Tullis Russell Oral History Collection
I must’ve been 14 or 15 when my parents brought home a piece of software that would literally change their professional lives and would become… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 39: Rejlander’s ‘The two ways of life’ (c. 1857)
This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 38: Precognition Statements, Receipts, and the Making of ‘St Andrews – In The Footsteps of Old Tom Morris’
The re-discovery of the sailing journal of Skipper Alexander Gillespie ms38352, who sailed out of Elie in Fife in the mid-17th century, made the news… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 37: Journal of Alexander Gillespie, 1662-85
Alexander Govan was a chemist and druggist in St Andrews during the 1840s and 1850s. With the new art of photography then in its infancy,… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 36: The Govan Album
Douglas Dunn published Elegies in 1985 – a collection of 39 poems written after the death of his first wife, Lesley Balfour Dunn, who died… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 35: Douglas Dunn’s Elegies notebooks
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
Cataloguing the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the Special Collections Division of the University Library can be a source of surprises.… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
Einstein said that “if you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 32: The English Struwwelpeter
In the 1980s there was precious little golf on the TV in the UK. There was no internet and the newspapers were, with the exception… Read More »Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
