This week, 24-30th September, celebrates Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual celebration, launched in 1982 by the American Library Association, aimed at promoting the freedom to read. Books might have…
This week Emily reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘D’ section of the Copyright Collection. You can see the previous post in the series here. Thomas Pennant (1726 – 1798) was a…
In the second part of his investigations into the ways in which the books in St Andrews’ University Library were used in 18th century, Matthew Sangster reveals more scurrilous student scribblings… Read Part One here.…
The historical records of the University Library in St Andrews’ Special Collections represent a uniquely valuable resource for studying book use and reading. It is relatively rare for more than fragments of an…
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri quattuor, a German translation of Visio Tnugdali, and four…