In the second part of the blog series on the Franki Raffles Photography Collection, Weitian Liu picks several highlights of the collection as an introduction to this substantial body of work. Instead of offering an…
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this collection is now available on the Special Collections…
Well, this is my last post as Project Archivist on Hidden Burgh: Restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife. It’s amazing how quickly the year has gone, but so much has been accomplished in that time. The Cupar Burgh…
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 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…
Happy New Year! Well, the time for festive present giving has now well and truly passed, but the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections Division received a wonderful gift the other week. What was it, you…
Hello again from the Archives Revealed project “Hidden Burgh: restoring Cupar’s place at the heart of Fife”. It has been a busy time with the project, with the appointment of two volunteers who started this week…
Thanks to a generous grant from the Honeyman Foundation, Farshad Sonboldel, PhD student in modern Iranian literature, was tasked with reviewing the catalogue records for the Persian and Arabic manuscripts held within…
In this week’s blog, postgraduate student Thomas Murrie shares with us some of the findings from his dissertation, the focus of which was on one of the Library’s manuscripts – the ‘Alchimiae Tractatus’ (ms38176). The…
Last November, the archive team of the University Library’s Special Collections Division began work on the ‘Logjam’ project. The ‘Logjam’ methodology is based on a survey undertaken back in 2003 to discover the extent…