This week, 24-30th September, celebrates Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual celebration, launched in 1982 by the American Library Association, aimed at… Read More »Banned Books at the University of St Andrews
This week Emily reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘D’ section of the Copyright Collection. You can… Read More »Copyright ABCs – “This book is very ill used”: Student Marginalia in A Tour in Scotland
In the second part of his investigations into the ways in which the books in St Andrews’ University Library were used in 18th century, Matthew… Read More »‘William French is a damned bragging, lying b****’: Book Use and Marginal Contentions in Eighteenth-Century St Andrews, Part Two
The historical records of the University Library in St Andrews’ Special Collections represent a uniquely valuable resource for studying book use and reading. It is… Read More »‘William French is a damned bragging, lying b****’: Book Use and Marginal Contentions in Eighteenth-Century St Andrews, Part One
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri… Read More »500 year old inky fingerprints uncovered in German incunabule
