The University Library is thrilled that a St Andrews undergraduate, Jenny Elwin (4th Year, English and Modern History), winner of our James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize 2016 has… Read More »Our student book collecting winner awarded national prize
To begin the New Year in this week’s Reading the Collections blog we take a look at the amusing children’s stories by Edgar Primrose Dickie… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 43: Mister Bannock by Edgar Primrose Dickie
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
While cataloguing the Reserve Collection, I came across a little gem of a spelling book. It contains four separate publications which have been bound together,… Read More »Lighting the Past: Historical ABCs
For this week’s blog I thought I’d have a go at paper modelling, as we have in our Copyright Deposit Collection a little work published… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 46: How to Make Paper Models
