It’s with great pleasure that we are able to pass on good news about the ‘Opening Up Scotland’s Archives’ scheme, in which Special Collections is a partner. The National Archives and the Scottish Council on Archives…
This is the first post in a new weekly miniseries about advertisements in 19th century books. The nineteenth century was an incredible period for tourism in the Alps. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the…
Well, butcher, baker and blacksmith at least! Three local craftsmen, masters of their trades, will be taking part in a free event on Saturday 7th May in the Supper Room of St Andrews Town Hall. Throughout the day,…
As part of the 3-day conference celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Ben Jonson’s first Folio of Works, delegates from the conference ‘Dare to Tell’: Silence and Saying in Ben Jonson were welcomed to…
Every February our reading room is busy with first year students researching the history of the town and University in preparation for their interviews as new members of the Kate Kennedy Club. This year there were 43…
On Saturday we welcomed to Special Collections a group who had stayed on in Scotland after the joint meeting of the Linnaeus Link and European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, held earlier in the week at the…
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past year! We’re ending the series with our traditional visual index: …
Over the past few weeks there’s been a series of letters to the London Review of Books discussing the phenomenon of ‘cross generational vaulting’ – anecdotes passed down through generations that make the past seem…
This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from the 1800s to 1920. He made use of material held in Special Collections while…
Douglas Dunn published Elegies in 1985 – a collection of 39 poems written after the death of his first wife, Lesley Balfour Dunn, who died in 1981, aged 37, from melanoma of the eye. It was awarded the Whitbread Book…