Illustration of a reindeer from one the engraved plates in Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia, a history of Northern Scandinavia and the Sami people. A noted Swedish… Read More »Advent Calendar: 13 December – Reindeer
Photograph by local press photographer George Cowie of a young girl making a snowman, dated between 1925-1935 (GMC-EC-30-a). Making snowmen is a popular winter activity,… Read More »Advent Calendar: 12 December – The Snowman
Colour illustration of a Christmas tree from The Gift Book for all Seasons: A book of Instruction and Amusement for All Young People, 1860 (rper… Read More »Advent Calendar: 11 December – Christmas Tree
Illustration of Father Christmas “Up-to-Date” by the illustrator Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), published in the magazine Punch, or the London Charivari, 26 December 1896 (per… Read More »Advent Calendar: 10 December – Father Christmas
The Scottish folklorist Alexander Carmichael edited the songs, lore and poems of the Gaelic speaking regions of Scotland in the work Carmina Gadelica, 1900 (r… Read More »Advent Calendar: 9 December – ‘Christmas Chants’
Photograph of the beginning of a curling match between the Silver Foxes Curling Club, East Lothian and the Dundee Curling Club dated between 1925-1935, possibly… Read More »Advent Calendar: 8 December – Curling
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
Photograph of Professor and Mrs Dickie skiing on Jacob’s ladder [North Haugh], St Andrews in 1950 (GMC-19-75-2). Edgar Primrose Dickie was Professor of Divinity at… Read More »Advent Calendar: 3 December – Skiing on Jacob’s Ladder
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
