This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 38: Precognition Statements, Receipts, and the Making of ‘St Andrews – In The Footsteps of Old Tom Morris’
For this post we will take a look at some of the different bindings and covers of Wuthering Heights in our collections. Some of these… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 29: Brontë Book Covers
At the end of July, John Jardine, University Bedellus, retired after 29 years’ service with the University. In that role as mace-bearer, almost the personification… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus
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
It’s summer time, the season of weddings, and so this week the focus is upon Brides Wedding Book by Elizabeth Hillier, a graduate of the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 23: Brides Wedding Book
Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy Collection – Ladislav Holy (1933–1997) was a Czech anthropologist and Africanist, who came to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
I have been reading through two box files of memories of student life at St Andrews collected by Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang in the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 18: Student Reminiscences
“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
“The petals were voluminous enough to be stirred by the summer breeze, and when they moved, the red, blue and yellow lights passed one over… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 16: Kew Gardens
A Holiday in Iceland by N.L van Gruisen, Junr. (London 1879), though an unassuming little volume, caught my attention every time I passed it on the… Read More »Reading the Collections, week 13: A Holiday in Iceland
Working with the Photographic Collection, it may seem self-evident that I prefer to read books with pictures. So when asked to read a book from… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 12: Every Building on the Sunset Strip
I have a few truly vivid memories of being six years old: the time I jumped from the monkey bars because I wanted to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 7: The Book of Bosh
