Christmas feasting in St Andrews
With various Christmas dinners looming, I was wondering what students might have been eating for their Christmas dinners in times past, if they were not… Read More »Christmas feasting in St Andrews
Andrew Lang
Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015
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
Reading the Collections, Week 7: The Book of Bosh
I have a few truly vivid memories of being six years old: the time I jumped from the monkey bars because I wanted to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 7: The Book of Bosh
Lighting the Past: The Lang Collection
We’re back again, finishing our sixth collection to date: the Lang Collection! After a year-and-a-half of adventuring through the General Reserve Collection (you can read… Read More »Lighting the Past: The Lang Collection
Introducing This Year’s Blog Theme: 52 Weeks of Reading the Collections
‘You work in a library? It must be lovely to get to read books all day.’ Anyone who works in any kind of library has… Read More »Introducing This Year’s Blog Theme: 52 Weeks of Reading the Collections
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 39: compile a dictionary
Sometimes you come across someone in the story of the University who just makes you stop and stare, whose erudition and achievements in enabling the… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 39: compile a dictionary
At last! New Archive Catalogue finally online
Regular users of Special Collections will know that over the last 5 years or so we have been promising that our new Archive Catalogue was… Read More »At last! New Archive Catalogue finally online
Happy Hallowe’en! Andrew Lang’s own illustrated copy of “Ballade of a choice of ghosts”
Here’s a Hallowe’en treat from Special Collections at St Andrews! Featured below is the manuscript poem for Andrew Lang‘s “Ballade of a choice of ghosts”… Read More »Happy Hallowe’en! Andrew Lang’s own illustrated copy of “Ballade of a choice of ghosts”
Andrew Lang (1844-1912): a Centenary Celebration
On Thursday, 1 November 2012, a day conference dedicated to Andrew Lang will be held in Upper College Hall, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St… Read More »Andrew Lang (1844-1912): a Centenary Celebration
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 7: ‘Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886’
“Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886. His name I do not know. By the whites he goes by… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 7: ‘Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886’