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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Compass of the heart: following the map of matrimony on St Valentine’s Day
To celebrate St Valentine’s Day this year we are featuring the Map of Matrimony, with its Kingdom of Courtship, River of Love, Dangerous Straits of Flirtation, Isles of Jealousy and Quicksands of Censure. Allegorical…
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…