As we congratulate our students across the Divinity, English, Psychology and International Relations subject areas who graduate today at undergraduate and postgraduate level, we present… Read More »Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: Great thinkers and writers
At the start of this special week in the University we are beginning a mini-series of blog posts to mark graduation. Each day we will… Read More »Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: some history
The University of St Andrews Biographical Register, compiled by former Keeper of Muniments Robert N Smart, holds extensive details of the nearly 12,000 students and… Read More »Search for alumni in the new online University of St Andrews Biographical Register 1747-1897
Today is the 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston, who died on the 4th April 1617. Widely regarded as… Read More »Marvellous Merchiston: 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston
Recently, the Lighting the Past Team came across this inscription in a Greek language textbook: The discovery of this annotation provides a perfect opportunity to… Read More »A Prize Discovery: The Story of the Tullis Brothers
On International Women’s Day, we salute some of the amazing women who have been associated with the University in the last 125 years. ELIZABETH GARRETT… Read More »Trailblazing Women at the University of St Andrews: A Celebration for International Women’s Day
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
