As we approach the fevered climax of the Scottish independence referendum, we thought it would be interesting to compare this situation with the debate surrounding… Read More »Considerations Upon the Union… “from the will and humour of the people”
The moment you login to Facebook you are faced with an up-to-the-second archive of vacation photographs, pet videos, political screes, and daily frustrations of your… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Friending Cicero
For this week’s how-to, I thought I’d try some 16th century recipes from the first English translation of Europe’s most popular apothecary of the 15th… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, week 38: how to take a 16th century bath
There is a scene early in Mansfield Park (1814) where Maria and Julia Bertram, then aged thirteen and twelve, deplore the ignorance of their slightly… Read More »52 WEEKS OF HISTORICAL HOW-TO’S, WEEK 37: How to improve your mind …
This week’s How-to post gave an excuse for our two departmental home-brewers, Marc and Daryl, to stretch their boundaries to adapt a strange recipe for… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 26: Brewing Scurvy Grass Ale!
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Professor Christopher Given-Wilson on Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum
Recipes from Meg Dods’ Cook and Housewife’s Manual have featured in a couple of earlier posts in this series, but Burns Night (25 January) provides… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 13: Burns Night
The Lighting the Past team has completed its fourth collection to date! This collection belonged to the Reverend Frederick Crombie and was donated to the… Read More »Lighting the Past: The Crombie Collection
Many items which appear in our blogs are visually stunning. The focus of this blog, The Complete Servant, by Samuel and Sarah Adams, is certainly… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 4: The Complete Servant
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 Weeks of Fantastic… Read More »Introducing this year’s blog theme: 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s!
Last week the Lighting the Past team finished cataloguing the non-folio items of the St Andrews Collection. With some 2315 bib records and 3926 item… Read More »Lighting the Past: The St Andrews Collection
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been… Read More »Lighting the Past: Next up, the Anderson Collection!
