Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together. To mark the Platinum Jubilee weekend, we thought we…
On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of preparation by Professor Margaret Connolly and Professor Rhiannon Purdie,…
Staff and research students of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research have put together an online mini-exhibition to highlight some of the collection items available for the study of Scottish Women’s History…
Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, an initiative to promote reading for pleasure and a celebration of books. Here at the University of St Andrews, we’d like to offer some wee presents for the…
In Spring 2020 I submitted an entry to the J.D. Forbes competition. My entry, loosely based on my PhD research, was titled From Salt to Satan: An introduction to a collection of “lesbian pulp” as cultural items. What…
Maia Sheridan, Manuscripts Archivist, reports on leading an international effort to tackle a huge archive on international terrorism. For those of you used to getting all your news online or through RSS feeds to your…
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to submit a blog post as part of their course. Here is the next in a…
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to submit a blog post as part of their course. Here is the next in a…
For the final image, we are back to the St Andrews coastline on a snowy day c.1990. This image is from the University Photography collection, taken by the former official photographer of the University, Peter Adamson.…
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) came from an extended family of natural historians, illustrators and conchologists. The Thesaurus Conchyliorum, a comprehensive work on molluscs, was started by George Sowerby…