In this blog, student Emma Sibbald shares highlights from her research into the reading practices of Elizabeth Foulis, a regular user of the University Library in the 1800s. In early-nineteenth century Scotland, there…
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this collection is now available on the Special Collections…
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 brings us in from the cold, to a cosy Christmas morning and we wish all our blog…
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 Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Robert Adam was the photographer at the…
A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900 (JV-102721). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines of Dundee produced prints and then postcards of topographical views for the…
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…
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…
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…
Douglas firs in the snow, Birnam, December 1925 (RMA-H-1607). A half plate (6.5×4.75 ins.) glass negative from the Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Birnam is the location of Great Birnam…
Kintail – the view from Ben Sgriol, ca. 1985 (HMB-P-224). A print from the Hamish Brown Mountaineering and Scottish Photography Collection. The view from Beinn Sgritheall (or Beinn Sgriol) was described by Sir Hugh…