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…
In the second week of our armchair-travels through the lantern slides of the General Rollo Collection we continue our virtual tours among the ordinary people of Europe and North America. The collection consists of the…
In this blog, Pilar Gil, Cataloguing and Documentation Officer, starts a new series looking at the General Rollo collection, a set of prints, lantern slides and glass plate negatives showing international scenes and…
Julie Greenhill may be a familiar name if you have ever sent an enquiry to Special Collections. Here she reflects on a key role the reading room team play in helping remote users. At Special Collections we offer a…
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…
As part of the British Home Front week in St Andrews, the University Library’s Special Collections Division is hosting a drop-in session on the morning of Saturday 23 June, where visitors can see surviving original…
Ro Spankie, Principal Lecturer, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, shares with us her recent search to find out about her ancestor Thomas Spankie and his time as a student at…
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust towards the conservation of material relating to the history of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews.…
This is the second of our mini blog series featuring sensational headlines from The St Andrews Citizen newspaper. Spoiler alert: contains graphic descriptions of death by electrocution – not for the faint-hearted! The…
One of the most enjoyable parts of working in Special Collections is, for me, answering the myriad of enquiries we receive from all over the world. Some of these are straightforward requests for information about staff…