This year Echoes from the Vault will be posting an image of winter or Christmas from our collections every day from the 1st to 25th… Read More »Advent Calendar: 1 December – The booke of common prayer
Full of old memories she yet shall be Nurse of heroic men for whom the debt To that dim past is unacknowledged yet, Till Time… Read More »Remembering those lost in times of war, Christmas 1916
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
This year’s Special Collections Christmas party was slightly different to the usual festive celebration, as we continued to follow our Historical How-To theme. We brought… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 9: Special Collections Christmas Party Part I
Christmas was not much a family festivity until Queen Victoria posed with her children around a laden fir tree, a tradition Prince Albert had brought… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 6: Victorian Christmas decorations from the Girl’s Own Annual
