The Red Gown and St Andrews
Echoes from the Vault has looked at a few of the University of St Andrews traditions in recent years – the May dip, Raisin Monday, orientation, matriculation, examinations, Rector’s Installation and graduation. One of…
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Scottish Natural Philosopher – George Sinclair [?1630]-1696
George Sinclair was one of the earliest British writers on hydrostatics and published The hydrostaticks in 1672. At the time, Sinclair’s work was criticised by James Gregory and William Sanders in The Great and New Art…
‘My year in St Andrews was one of the best of my life…’
Rebecca Lawton (M.Litt Mediaeval History 2015) has been working on a collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as part of a collaborative PhD between the University of Leicester and the British Library. In this blog…
Lighting the Past Goodbyes!
On Tuesday, the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library celebrated the hard work of four Lighting the Past cataloguers who will be leaving the team over the summer. The project was…
Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: Great thinkers and writers
As we congratulate our students across the Divinity, English, Psychology and International Relations subject areas who graduate today at undergraduate and postgraduate level, we present a selection of distinguished…
Graduation week, celebrating Honorands: some history
At the start of this special week in the University we are beginning a mini-series of blog posts to mark graduation. Each day we will feature some of the amazing people who have been honoured by the University in the…
Search for alumni in the new online University of St Andrews Biographical Register 1747-1897
The University of St Andrews Biographical Register, compiled by former Keeper of Muniments Robert N Smart, holds extensive details of the nearly 12,000 students and staff who studied or worked at the University between…
Marvellous Merchiston: 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston
Today is the 400th anniversary of the death of the mathematician John Napier of Merchiston, who died on the 4th April 1617. Widely regarded as the first Scot to have made a major contribution to scientific learning,…
A Prize Discovery: The Story of the Tullis Brothers
Recently, the Lighting the Past Team came across this inscription in a Greek language textbook: The discovery of this annotation provides a perfect opportunity to highlight the connections between William Tullis and…
Trailblazing Women at the University of St Andrews: A Celebration for International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, we salute some of the amazing women who have been associated with the University in the last 125 years. ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836-1917) was the first woman to matriculate at the University…