Collage in the Collections
Visiting Scholar Dr Freya Gowrley reflects on her recent stay in St Andrews. During my three-week visiting scholarship at the Library’s Special Collections this summer, I conducted work as part of my research project…
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52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 52: A Special Scrapbook and Commonplace Book
We’ve sadly come to the end of our year long exploration of our collections. We’ve had tremendous fun getting to know obscure corners of our photographs, manuscripts, rare books and muniments better. Next week we’ll…
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 25: the Commonplace book of Roberta McIntosh
Worms and bugs of beauty! This week we have chosen to feature a little album from one of our family collections. Compiled by Roberta Mitchell McIntosh (or M’Intosh) in the 1860s, this is a maroon leather-bound album of…
At last! New Archive Catalogue finally online
Regular users of Special Collections will know that over the last 5 years or so we have been promising that our new Archive Catalogue was in preparation and would be online ‘soon’. That ‘soon’ wasn’t quite as soon as…