Orientation Week
It’s Orientation Week! Welcome to all new and returning students. So you’re new to St Andrews? Look at our Orientation pages where you’ll find loads of information about everything from your new hall of residence to…
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‘William French is a damned bragging, lying b****’: Book Use and Marginal Contentions in Eighteenth-Century St Andrews, Part Two
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.…
‘William French is a damned bragging, lying b****’: Book Use and Marginal Contentions in Eighteenth-Century St Andrews, Part One
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…
The Regiam Majestatem
Special Collections was recently able to ‘bring home’ an exciting copy of the key Scottish legal text. The manuscript of Regiam Majestatem, written in Lowland Scots, dated 18 October 1548, and was owned by a St…