Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
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People in Scotland, and all around the world, will be cutting into a haggis today or lifting a wee dram to the memory of Robert Burns, our…
Date 25 January 2023
Category Anniversaries
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2022 is Lakshmi Thiagarajan, who graduated last year…
Date 18 January 2023
Category Book Collecting
The king sent his lady on the thirteenth Yule day, Three stalks o’ merry corn, three maids a-merry dancing, Three hinds a-merry hunting,…
Date 24 December 2022
Category Photographic Collection
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The Yule Days – Day 12 – ‘Three maids a-merry dancing’
The king sent his lady on the twelfth Yule day, Three maids a-merry dancing, Three hinds a-merry hunting, an Arabian baboon, Three swans a-merry swimming, Three ducks a-merry laying, a bull that was brown, Three…
The Yule Days – Day 11 – ‘Three hinds a-merry hunting’
The king sent his lady on the eleventh Yule day, Three hinds a-merry hunting, an Arabian baboon, Three swans a-merry swimming, Three ducks a-merry laying, a bull that was brown, Three goldspinks, three starlings, A…
The Yule Days – Day 10 – ‘An Arabian baboon’
The king sent his lady on the tenth Yule day, An Arabian baboon, Three swans a-merry swimming, Three ducks a-merry laying, a bull that was brown, Three goldspinks, three starlings, A goose that was gray, Three plovers,…