In order to write four influential books on the history of chemistry, St Andrews’ Professor John Read (1884-1963) assembled a remarkable collection of primary sources.… Read More »Prelude to Chemistry: Images from the Alchemy Collection
This is the fourth post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Golf Photographic Collection
A few weeks ago, Fiona Menzies, our project cataloguer, gave a talk to colleagues, providing an outline of her work on the David Hay Fleming… Read More »Cataloguing the papers of David Hay Fleming: St Andrean, local historian and antiquarian
Well, butcher, baker and blacksmith at least! Three local craftsmen, masters of their trades, will be taking part in a free event on Saturday 7th… Read More »The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker …
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’
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
In the 1980s there was precious little golf on the TV in the UK. There was no internet and the newspapers were, with the exception… Read More »Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
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
This past week, Special Collections helped host the bi-annual meeting of The Calotype Society, a modern day take on the original photographic exchange circles that… Read More »Contemporary Calotypists visit Special Collections to View Early Calotypes and Photographic Prints
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
Of all the collections to be catalogued by the Phase 1 team, the Shewan Collection will probably be the only one where every item has… Read More »Lighting the Past completes the Shewan Collection
At 9:30 this morning, several of the special collections team took an early morning break, found a sunny patch of grass and experienced the solar… Read More »How many ways can you view the solar eclipse?
