There are a multitude of items which a collector can choose to collect: books, tea pots, figurines, etc. But a collection doesn’t have to be… Read More »Collecting and Collections Part III: Collecting Items of Local Interest – David Hay Fleming and St Andrews
One writer of this blog post loves golf and not David Hay Fleming; the other loves David Hay Fleming and not golf. So, what brings… Read More »David Hacker-Fleming, a golfing life
A few weeks ago, Fiona Menzies, our project cataloguer, gave a talk to colleagues, providing an outline of her work on the David Hay Fleming… Read More »Cataloguing the papers of David Hay Fleming: St Andrean, local historian and antiquarian
This year at StAnza, the St Andrews annual Poetry festival, I decided that I would do something a bit different in the name of archival… Read More »Special Collections brings Hay Fleming to StAnza
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
Whilst undertaking research for my MSc dissertation on David Hay Fleming (1849-1931) as a book collector, I came across some intriguing correspondence (msdep113/2/4) regarding a… Read More »David Hay Fleming and the Bronze Bowl
Now, I’ve seen a fair number of books with gauffered edges in my time, however this one takes the cake. This week’s binding post was… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 48: 19th century Pictish gauffered edges …
