Urania Propitia by Maria Cunitz
In this blog Tori Wallauer outlines a 2023 summer project which was made possible through funding from the Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) public engagement funding, as…
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Notaries and their networks in St Andrews, 1466-1560
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and their networks in late medieval St Andrews, supported by generous…
“Detritus: to keep”: Shedding light on the work of Nicholas Tindal Phillipson
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of Nicholas Tindal Phillipson (1937-2018). The archival papers of…
‘The Words You Need to Be Politically Correct’: behind conservative lines in the papers of Kenneth Minogue
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses on the work of Kenneth Minogue. When commemorating the life of Bill Letwin,…
The Kedourie Papers: the world and work Sylvia G. Haim
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses on the work of Sylvia Kedourie. Having married Elie Kedourie in 1950, Sylvia, who…
The Kedourie Papers: Nationalism, minorities and the Middle East
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the Kedourie papers, and particularly those of Elie Kedourie. The Papers of…
A mind of her own: the papers of Lola Mayer
In the second of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the archival record of Lola Mayer within the papers of Jacob Peter Mayer. As is so…
The Journeys of Jacob Peter Mayer and his Papers
In the first of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of Jacob Peter Mayer. Jacob Peter Mayer is now best remembered for his work…
The Very Rev John Lee (1779-1859)
In this blog post, Megan Briers, Mathematics and Computer Science student, shares her experience as a summer intern with the Special Collections team. The Very Reverend Professor John Lee (1779-1859) was appointed…
The Archive of European Intellectual Life
Special Collections has been involved in a very exciting cataloguing project this year, in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History in St Andrews and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in…