In the third of our reports, Caroline Douglas, AHRC TECHNE funded doctoral student at the Royal College of Art, London, shares with us some of her… Read More »2017 Visiting Scholarship: women in the early history of photography
We are pleased to announce that the University of St Andrews Library is now accepting applications for the Special Collections Visiting Scholarship Scheme 2018. Visiting… Read More »University of St Andrews Library Special Collections Visiting Scholarship Scheme 2018
In the second of our reports, Dr William Hepburn, University of Aberdeen, shares with us some of his findings during his Visiting Scholarship in the… Read More »2017 Visiting Scholarship: Newburgh Burgh Court Book, 1457-79
In the first of the reports from our 2017 Visiting Scholars, Dr Alice Taylor, Reader in Medieval History at KCL, and co-winner of the Royal… Read More »2017 Visiting Scholarship: Medieval Scottish Law
Since 2014, we have welcomed a number of visiting scholars who wish to pursue their own research projects to make use of materials held in… Read More »Visiting Scholars 2017
This week we have a one-off post by Dr Keelan Overton, reporting on her work as a Visiting Scholar during 2016. You can apply to… Read More »From an enigmatic binding stamp to a holistic reassessment: the St Andrews Qur’an
This is a guest post by Maxine Branagh- one of our Visiting Scholars for 2016. She is a second year PhD candidate at the University… Read More »University of St Andrews Library Visiting Scholarship Scheme 2016
James David Forbes (1809–1868) was part of an early generation of natural philosophers interested in quantifying climate and weather in order to determine how the… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Visiting Forbes’ coloured atmospheres
Back in June, we received our first Visiting Scholar for 2015 – Professor Kevin James of the University of Guelph. Since delivering a workshop based… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships… Read More »Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015
