In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work to impose order, opening the doors to users inevitably means that a measure…
In the 1970s, the Department of Special Collections took in the vast archive of the commercial photographic company known as Valentines of Dundee. This internationally renowned firm was started by James Valentine in…
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad fratres eremo. This manuscript had been catalogued, and thought…
It has been known that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their quest to open up University medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus at St Andrews in an attempt to gain admittance to…
Following on from our previous Highlight posts, in this post Elisabeth Dearden takes a look at three defining photojournalistic works published by Robert Delpire. If you would like to write a Highlights post for us,…
Following on from our previous Highlight posts, Christine Gascoigne details the history of a very important 17th century Scottish book collector, William Guild. If you would like to write a Highlights post for us, get…