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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Open Championship in St Andrews 2022
The 150th Open Golf Championship will be held in St Andrews from 14-17 July 2022. To coincide with this event, the University, in conjunction with the local community council, will be holding a special ceremony on the…
Folger Symposium – ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’
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,…
USTC Conference: Gender and the Book Trades Part IV
In this fourth, and final, instalment showcasing material used in the recent USTC Conference ‘Gender and the Book Trades’, we look at items in our collections which relate to the LGBTQ+ community. Although St Andrews…
Virtual Alumni Weekend, 16-18 April 2021
We are delighted to support the Virtual Alumni Weekend with a quick glance behind the scenes at the records we hold in the University archive about former students and some of the information that they reveal. All…
2019 St Andrews Photography Festival: Science & Photography
In October this year St Andrews holds its 4th annual Photography Festival. Drawing heavily on the University’s teaching and research collections to support the theme of ‘Science & Photography’, the festival highlights…
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: Ancestry Workshop
As part of the Archives Revealed project “Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife”, we are holding a workshop on researching ancestry in Cupar. It is taking place in the meeting room at Cupar…
Science and Photography Symposium
We are happy to announce the programme for a one day symposium on the topic of ‘Science and Photography’ on the 23 October 2019. To book your place visit our online shop. We will look at how photographs are used in…
Print History Conference Enlightened by Rare Book Exhibition
This year’s annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) conference brought scholars from all over the world to St Andrews. Over the course of the June conference, more than fifty print historians analysed the book…