The University Library is thrilled that a St Andrews undergraduate, Jenny Elwin (4th Year, English and Modern History), winner of our James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize 2016 has been awarded the first Antiquarian…
To begin the New Year in this week’s Reading the Collections blog we take a look at the amusing children’s stories by Edgar Primrose Dickie (1897–1991); a man who had a fascinating career. Edgar Dickie served in both…
Einstein said that “if you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales”. To this I would add, if you really want your children to…
While cataloguing the Reserve Collection, I came across a little gem of a spelling book. It contains four separate publications which have been bound together, each dating from the early 18th century, and they can…
For this week’s blog I thought I’d have a go at paper modelling, as we have in our Copyright Deposit Collection a little work published in 1824 entitled Papyro-plastics, or the art of modelling in paper, translated…