Two students from the Mathematics Department, Heather Dickinson and Barbora Cernakova, recently undertook an internship, funded by the Strathmartine Trust, which involved consultation of the papers of Professor D’Arcy…
The St Andrews Book Project in the School of History, along with the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, hosted its annual conference this year from 29 June to 1 July. The conference theme was…
What sounds like the beginning of a bad joke in fact describes just some of our favourite finds from the first few days working on the Discovering Lost Manuscripts Project at Special Collections. The Discovering Lost…
In this week’s blog Mary McClure, a final year Art History and Medieval History student, discusses the Book of Hours that formed the basis of her Art History dissertation, entitled ‘MS38988: a Life History’. This late…
History PhD student Rory MacLellan, has been working for the last year on compiling a genealogical index from some of the St Andrews Burgh records, a project supported by the Burnwynd Trust. Here are some of the…
As we move into May, the regular pattern of visiting classes using Special Collections materials comes to an end. We have enjoyed bringing original material to a wide variety of sessions this semester for both…
Recently, the Lighting the Past Team came across this inscription in a Greek language textbook: The discovery of this annotation provides a perfect opportunity to highlight the connections between William Tullis and…
John Stuart Mill, arguably the most important British philosopher of the 19th century, and principal architect of philosophical utilitarianism, was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews by its students,…
Full of old memories she yet shall be Nurse of heroic men for whom the debt To that dim past is unacknowledged yet, Till Time shall set their names in history. From St Andrews by W L Courtney Just as 2016 has been a…
This week we have a one-off post by Dr Keelan Overton, reporting on her work as a Visiting Scholar during 2016. You can apply to the 2017 Visiting Scholarship Scheme here:…