As a general rule, we do not retain examination scripts or answers in the University archive. There are a few items however that have been kept by archivists due to their uniqueness. During this examination period, we…
Bringing in collections Incoming university collections are routinely checked for dirt, mould and insect activity before being cleaned, rehoused and shelved in the stores. Not all collection items come from suitable…
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and their networks in late medieval St Andrews, supported by generous…
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and their networks in late medieval St Andrews, supported by generous…
The United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed on the 11th of February each year to promote equal access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. This year, we…
We were delighted to be able to host two events in mid-August to support work by colleagues in the School of Divinity. On Friday 19 August the delegates attending the British New Testament Society Conference in St…
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…
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…
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of Nicholas Tindal Phillipson (1937-2018). The archival papers of…
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses on the work of Kenneth Minogue. When commemorating the life of Bill Letwin,…