Summer conference season
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…
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The lantern slide tourist, week 3: local animals
Last time, in our exploration of travel photographs from the General Rollo collection, we commented on the portrayal of local people. This post will continue with the same ‘local’ theme but this time referring to…
Horace Walpole to John Pinkerton, 1794
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a look at the letter from Horace Walpole to John Pinkerton, 1794.…
William Wordsworth to Benjamin Dockray, c.1840
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a look at the letter from William Wordsworth to Benjamin Dockray,…
Lord Byron to Canon Hodgson, 1811
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a look at the letter from Lord Byron to Canon Hodgson in 1811.…
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) and the ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’
The Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, contain a fascinating collection of historical documents associated with some key figures in British and French…
Mary Queen of Scots and her antagonists
In this the third of our mini-series of blogs by students who have studied Mary Queen of Scots with Dr Amy Blakeway in 2019/20, we learn from Emily about a work by an eminent former student of the University. George…
Mary Queen of Scots and her ‘Lawis’: a powerful expression of royal authority
In the second of our short series of student posts, one of this year’s graduates reflects on a book she encountered in Special Collections. Mary Queen of Scots was a competent monarch who understood her Scottish…
Encountering Mary Queen of Scots
Students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland module (MO4807) this year have been encountering Mary Queen of Scots through books printed during her lifetime. In the first of a short…
The St Andrews Periodic Table
In honour of UNESCO’s International Year of the Periodic Table 2019, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is showcasing the wonders of the Periodic Table and chemical elements. As part of their programme of events the…