The Friends of the Library are delighted that Emeritus Professor Douglas Dunn will be delivering their Autumn Lecture on Thursday, November 22 at 5.15pm in the Arts Lecture Theatre. His topic, “The Writer in the…
This week’s illustrations come from an album of watercolours of St Andrews compiled by John Cook in 1797. It contains the usual views which one might expect to see in this sort of scrapbook: St Andrews from all angles,…
Earlier this year, Howard S. Mott, Inc. brought to our attention a book from their stock which would fit our collection very nicely. The book in question was the very rare and fragile printing of Sir R.L. Playfair’s An…
We are delighted to have purchased 15 wonderful artist’s books by Jean Johnstone, a Fife-based artist who creates hand-made books in collaboration with Scottish and international poets including John Burnside, Kathleen…
It has been known that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their quest to open up University medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus at St Andrews in an attempt to gain admittance to…