Reading the Collections, Week 4: Siegfried Sassoon, Poems
Autograph version of ‘Brevities’ by Sassoon, from msPR6037.A9A17 I am that man who with a luminous look Sits up at night to write a ruminant book. I am that man who with a furrowed frown Thinks harshly...
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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...
View ArticleMinor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
Minor book repair workshop Life can be dangerous for a book. Someone might thoughtlessly pull it off a shelf by the top of its spine, bash its corners, ignore its aging leather, not to mention the...
View Article52 Weeks of Reading the Collections: Visual Index and Reflections
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past year! We’re ending the series with our traditional visual index:...
View ArticleUniversity of St Andrews Library Visiting Scholarship Scheme 2016
This is a guest post by Maxine Branagh- one of our Visting Scholars for 2016. She is a second year PhD candidate at the University of Stirling. Her thesis is titled ‘The Young Scottish Reader in the...
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