Encountering Mary Queen of Scots
Students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland module (MO4807) this year have been encountering Mary Queen of Scots through… Read More »Encountering Mary Queen of Scots
rare books
Print History Conference Enlightened by Rare Book Exhibition
This year’s annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) conference brought scholars from all over the world to St Andrews. Over the course of the June… Read More »Print History Conference Enlightened by Rare Book Exhibition
Celebrating 330 years of Isaac Newton’s Principia
Today marks the 330th anniversary of the publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (often referred to simply as the Principia). First published… Read More »Celebrating 330 years of Isaac Newton’s Principia
New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament… Read More »New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
52 Weeks of Reading the Collections: Visual Index and Reflections
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past… Read More »52 Weeks of Reading the Collections: Visual Index and Reflections
Minor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
Life can be dangerous for a book. Someone might thoughtlessly pull it off a shelf by the top of its spine, bash its corners, ignore… Read More »Minor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
Cataloguing the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the Special Collections Division of the University Library can be a source of surprises.… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
This is what buried treasure looks like in a library: This book, which is a collection of two perfectly respectable but not very rare tracts… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
Wedderburn and Simson Collections now on SAULCAT
Special Collections is pleased to announce that the cataloguing of two of its rare book collections is complete. Both the Simson Collection and the Wedderburn… Read More »Wedderburn and Simson Collections now on SAULCAT
Reading the Collections, Week 26: Discovery of the Microbial World
Antony van Leeuwenhoek is widely recognised as the person who discovered the microbial world and I have always been intrigued by this somewhat unusual and… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 26: Discovery of the Microbial World
Reading the collections, week 17: Jane Austen’s Persuasion
“I’ve never read anything by Jane Austen. I repeat: I’ve never read anything by Jane Austen!” This is how a conversation started with my colleague,… Read More »Reading the collections, week 17: Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Where we find new old books, chapter 2: a new 15th century fragment joins a fragmentary history
Around a month ago Liza DeBlock (one of our MLitt in Book History students) pulled from the shelf this very interesting book during her regularly… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 2: a new 15th century fragment joins a fragmentary history