Women’s Golf in St Andrews
We are launching our new-look blog with a story about an old favourite here in St Andrews – golf. The blog has been migrated to a new format to bring it into line with other University blogs. Don’t worry though – all…
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‘The Papermakers’ – Tullis Russell in film
The Tullis Russell Paper Mills Collection (ms38973) contains records in a variety of formats – paper, photographic, audio tapes, VHS tapes and film reels. Previous blogs on Echoes have highlighted different parts of…
Roll up! Roll up! For all the fun of the fair!
Maia Sheridan, our Manuscripts Archivist, discovers our very own ‘Greatest Showman’ in one of our archive collections. Sometimes fun things happen in the archives. While looking through slightly dull accounts relating…
Greta Michie: connections between Glenesk and St Andrews reinvigorated
In previous blogs, we have featured reports from the Logjam project highlighting our active management of our archival collections through the appraisal and cataloguing of our archival backlog. Here’s a story about the…
Cupar Burgh Records – From a Volunteer’s Perspective
Paula, who is volunteering to help with the Archives Revealed project on Cupar’s history tells us about her experiences. I have lived in and around Cupar for nearly 35 years (although I am currently based in Perth) and…
Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages
The School of Art History, SAIMS and the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library are pleased to announce an upcoming two-day conference on the archive in medieval art and thought.…
Archives Revealed: Letting the People Know
Christine Wood brings us up to date on the latest outreach activities of the Archives Revealed Hidden Archives of Cupar project. It’s been a while since I last posted, but there has been good reason! My colleagues and…
Defining the boundaries: protection through housing and minimizing handling
Within the Burgh of Cupar charters collection (B13) is a document dated 5 April 1487 recording the marking of the boundaries of land belonging to the Burgh of Cupar and that of George Claphaine of Kerslogy [Carslogie].…
New Catalogue: Papers of Professor Alexander Danchev
The papers of the late Professor Alex Danchev (1955-2016), Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews from 2014 to his death in 2016, have been donated to the University of St Andrews Library…
Putting Pen to Paper: Love Letters in the Tullis Russell Business Archive
In the process of cataloguing archive collections one can come across the most unexpected and delightful documents. One such find is a small collection of letters in the Tullis Russell paper mill archive (ms38973). The…