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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Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950 (GMC-EC-11b). A 5×4 ins. plate glass negative from the George M Cowie Collection. Our last image…
Date 25 December 2020
Category Advent Calendar
Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908 (RMA-S-464B). A quarter plate (4.25×3.25 ins.) film negative from the Robert Moyes Adam…
Date 24 December 2020
Category Advent Calendar
A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900 (JV-102721). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines…
Date 23 December 2020
Category Advent Calendar
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December 22: Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894
Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894 (JHW-C-84). A lantern slide from the John H Wilson Magic Lantern Slide Collection. John Hardie Wilson was a botanist and lecturer in the University of St Andrews from…
Getting muddy with manuscripts
Heather Curtis, a first-year PhD student at the University of St Andrews, has won the Scottish Records Association’s Tunnock Prize – an award for an essay utilising archival research to expand our knowledge of Scottish…
December 21: Curling, 1878
Curling, 1878 (JV-645). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Curling is a winter sport that has a long history in Scotland. The first written evidence of curling appeared in a notary’s protocol…