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Inspired by…the carved stone – a MUSA lunchtime talk
The next talk in the “Inspired by…” series at MUSA is this Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 1 pm. Join Richard Welander, Head of Collections at Historic Scotland, to find out more about the ancient carved...
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Special Collections stepping out into a new Virtual World
A wire frame model of St Andrews Cathedral, c. 12th century, developed by the Open Virtual Worlds project and designed by Sarah Kennedy. No, this headline isn’t the plot of some low-budget 90′s science...
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52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 23: Images of St Andrew
Woodcut of the martyrdom of St Andrew from a Sarum Missal printed in Paris in 1534. We couldn’t resist celebrating St Andrews day with some ‘inspiring illustrations’ of our eponym himself. The cult of...
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52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 34: ‘10,000 paintings of St...
From the sketchbook of John N. Bonthron, possibly depicting his bedroom and a sketch of the coat of arms of St Andrews found in the City Council Chambers (ms38539) The front cover of Bonthron’s...
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David Hay Fleming and the Bronze Bowl
Dr David Hay Fleming, 1905, in a photograph taken by John Fairweather (GMC-F-107). Whilst undertaking research for my MSc dissertation on David Hay Fleming (1849-1931) as a book collector, I came...
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52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 1: Special Collections Ghost tour
T’was a dark and stormy night….. T’was a dark and stormy night….no, honestly, it really was….when a gallant band of Special Collections and friends set out in full costume, accompanied by an even more...
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Step Count Challenge – Special Collections Division of the University of St...
University Library Special Collections staff walking for the Step Count Challenge Do you remember last week? The week before spring sprung? I do. It was cold, windy and wet. Naturally such a dismal...
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Step Count Challenge – Special Collections Division of the University of St...
University Library Special Collections staff walking for the Step Count Challenge Do you remember last week? The week before spring sprung? I do. It was cold, windy and wet. Naturally such a dismal...
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Step Count Challenge – Special Collections Division of the University of St...
University Library Special Collections staff walking for the Step Count Challenge Do you remember last week? The week before spring sprung? I do. It was cold, windy and wet. Naturally such a dismal...
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Rescued from the Ruins: The Surviving Manuscripts of St Andrews Cathedral
Today, the east end of St Andrews is dominated by the ruins of its former Cathedral. Once the largest building in Scotland, St Andrews Cathedral held the shrine of the nation’s patron saint, was the...
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St Andrews then and now: A rephotography project: Part II
This is the second instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring close juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews selected from Special Collections, with the same views today. Published...
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