To celebrate St Valentine’s Day this year we are featuring the Map of Matrimony, with its Kingdom of Courtship, River of Love, Dangerous Straits of… Read More »Compass of the heart: following the map of matrimony on St Valentine’s Day
This is the final part of our mini blog series featuring sensational headlines from The St Andrews Citizen newspaper. Spoiler alert: contains graphic descriptions of murder – not for the… Read More »Ten Minutes in Murderland. Horror and Sensationalism in The St Andrews Citizen, Week 3: Jack the Ripper.
One of the most enjoyable parts of working in Special Collections is, for me, answering the myriad of enquiries we receive from all over the… Read More »‘Ten Minutes in Murderland’. Horror and Sensationalism in The St Andrews Citizen, Week 1: Lizzie Borden
Over the last six weeks we’ve had a glimpse into the world of Victorian cloth bindings, from its humble beginnings in coloured cloths and paper… Read More »Victorian cloth bindings, week 7: conclusion
Last week we considered grains as a form of decoration, whereby the natural grain of the cloth was disguised with a design. Almost simultaneously with… Read More »Victorian cloth bindings, week 3: blocking in gold, blind, black, and silver
The idea of using cotton cloth as a covering for books probably originated with the London publisher William Pickering, whilst the binder Archibald Leighton solved… Read More »Victorian cloth bindings, week 2: grains
We’ve sadly come to the end of our year long exploration of our collections. We’ve had tremendous fun getting to know obscure corners of our… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 52: A Special Scrapbook and Commonplace Book
