This is the last instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews, selected from the Special Collections Division… Read More »St Andrews Then and Now: A Rephotography Project: Part V
This is the fourth instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews, selected from the Special Collections… Read More »St Andrews Then and Now: A Rephotography Project: Part IV
This is the third instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring close juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews selected from the Special… Read More »St Andrews Then and Now: A Rephotography Project: Part III
This is the second instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring close juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews selected from Special Collections,… Read More »St Andrews then and now: A rephotography project: Part II
PhD candidate Édouard de Saint-Ours introduces a mini-series of posts which coincides with the St Andrews Photography Festival. For a historian of photography, living in… Read More »St Andrews then and now: A rephotography project: Part I
We are happy to announce the programme for a one day symposium on the topic of ‘Science and Photography’ on the 23 October 2019. To book… Read More »Science and Photography Symposium
In the first part of this blog, we told you about a major exhibition featuring loans from the Library’s photographic collections that opened earlier this… Read More »THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOGRAPHY GREAT BRITAIN: ST ANDREWS, PART 2. PREPARING FOR JAPAN
Last week a major exhibition, The Origin of Photography Great Britain, on the birth of British photography opened in Japan at the Tokyo Photographic Art… Read More »The Origins of Photography Great Britain: St Andrews
Thanks to a most generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries’ B. H. Breslauer Fund, the Library has recently been able to acquire… Read More »Pioneering Photographs: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’, photographically illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron (1875)
To start off the new year, our Photographic Collections Manager takes a look at the daguerreotypes in the Library’s photographic collections on the anniversary of… Read More »Daguerreotypes in the Library’s Special Collections
In the third of our reports, Caroline Douglas, AHRC TECHNE funded doctoral student at the Royal College of Art, London, shares with us some of her… Read More »2017 Visiting Scholarship: women in the early history of photography
Alexander Govan was a chemist and druggist in St Andrews during the 1840s and 1850s. With the new art of photography then in its infancy,… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 36: The Govan Album
