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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What do you get if you mix a famous golfer, an organ-paying medievalist and the Declaration of Independence? The improbable though…
Date 30 November 2024
Category Archives
November marks the start of UK Disability History month and the opportunity to discover and learn new narratives within the University’s…
Date 20 November 2024
It is that time of year again – costumes, raisins receipts and foam fights! The earliest records in the University’s archive relating to…
Date 18 October 2024
Category University of St Andrews traditions
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Unbe-leaf-able! A Thynne-ly disguised secret appears in a library book
In this blog PhD candidate Phoebe Macindoe discusses leaf books and a new acquisition for the Library. All the volumes in the library are made up of leaves, they are the pages that constitute the book. Some books,…
The Brontë books in the Hargreaves Collection
In this blog, Noor Zohdy, Laidlaw Scholar 2024, reports on their summer research project looking at editions of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As part of my Laidlaw research project this summer on Anne…
Conservation of a Japanese Lacquered Photograph Album
In this blog, Furniture & Wooden Artefacts Conservator Sarah Gerrish reports on conservation work carried out on a Japanese photo album from University Collections (ALB-116). As a freelance furniture and wooden…