John Stuart Mill, arguably the most important British philosopher of the 19th century, and principal architect of philosophical utilitarianism, was elected Rector of the University… Read More »150th anniversary of John Stuart Mill’s rectorial address
Special Collections was recently able to ‘bring home’ an exciting copy of the key Scottish legal text. The manuscript of Regiam Majestatem, written in Lowland Scots,… Read More »The Regiam Majestatem
This is the third 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: The Weighing Machine (Franki Raffles, 1989)
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
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
Back in June, we received our first Visiting Scholar for 2015 – Professor Kevin James of the University of Guelph. Since delivering a workshop based… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
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
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
Are you a hoarder? A collector? Are your shelves filled with your favourite titles? Or maybe you have box filled with letters or photographs which… Read More »James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize, 2015, Open!
Humans have been looking to the night sky for millennia in awe and wonder of the heavens above us, or in contemplation of the complex… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 51: How to discover a planet
As we are in the midst of orientation week, I thought it would be appropriate for this week’s historical how-to to focus on one of… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 45: How to Matriculate
