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52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 7: ‘Drawings made by a black fellow...
“Drawings made by a black fellow at Corowa New South Wales June 1886. His name I do not know. By the whites he goes by the name of Tommy Macrae…He is quite self-taught at drawing.” Traditional...
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912): a Centenary Celebration
On Thursday, 1 November 2012, a day conference dedicated to Andrew Lang will be held in Upper College Hall, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews. Lang was a student at St Andrews, and resident...
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Happy Hallowe’en! Andrew Lang’s own illustrated copy of “Ballade of a choice...
Here’s a Hallowe’en treat from Special Collections at St Andrews! Featured below is the manuscript poem for Andrew Lang‘s “Ballade of a choice of ghosts” with artwork by Harry Furniss. This item is...
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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...
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52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 39: compile a dictionary
Photograph of William A. Craigie, ms36925 Sometimes you come across someone in the story of the University who just makes you stop and stare, whose erudition and achievements in enabling the work of...
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Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how studying our Andrew Lang collection...
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Introducing This Year’s Blog Theme: 52 Weeks of Reading the Collections
‘You work in a library? It must be lovely to get to read books all day.’ Anyone who works in any kind of library has surely encountered this reaction more than once. And sometimes it’s challenging to...
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Lighting the Past: The Lang Collection
We’re back again, finishing our sixth collection to date: the Lang Collection! After a year-and-a-half of adventuring through the General Reserve Collection (you can read about some of the highlights...
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Reading the Collections, Week 7: The Book of Bosh
“The terrible Story of the Boy who would tear his Books” from The Book of Bosh (Chi PZ8.3B6E89). The Book of Bosh, stories and rhymes for children, published in London in 1889 (Chi PZ8.3B6E89). I...
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Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in...
Thomson Reading Room in Martyrs Kirk Research Library To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These...
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Christmas feasting in St Andrews
With various Christmas dinners looming, I was wondering what students might have been eating for their Christmas dinners in times past, if they were not lucky enough to be going home. Christmas cheer...
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