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Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East. By St Andrews Special Collections. Delving into the background of these leaves with the help of a couple of very useful websites, it would seem that we have a number of different sets of Kammavaca leaves, almost all incomplete, and from various times and places. The Kammavaca is a rel...
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Reading the Collections, Week 20: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 20: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. Those who know of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as Victorian Britain’s preeminent art critic and author of titles such as. The Stones of Venice. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. It tells of the adventures of ...
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GetStuffed2010: Taxidermy - A Dying Art or The Art of Dying
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010. Taxidermy - A Dying Art or The Art of Dying. Http:/ www.angelasinger.com/. If you click on this link it will lead you to the website of English artist and animal rights activist Angela Singer. Look at her work and leave your comments please. I will post a different link to a different artist every few days for you to comment on using the same following questions to help you, and me, to understand your perceptions of taxidermy in contemporary art. 10 August 2010 at 08:56. Also I t...
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Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection. By St Andrews Special Collections. Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy. Collection – Ladislav Holy. Ladislav Holy with the Berti Tribe, Sudan. From the Ladislav Holy Social Anthropology Photographs of Africa Collection. Digital preservation is not ...
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Reading the Collections, Week 22: Agatha Christie’s favourite detective novel | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 22: Agatha Christie’s favourite detective novel. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. My Brother’s Killer. From the Crime Classic Series. When looking for material to read for this blog series, I decided to look at the modern fiction within the St Andrews Collection. Mr Brother’s Killer. Had a...
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Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. Front cover of the 1894 edition of Wilkie Collins’. Har PR4494.M7 1894. Despite being a keen detective fiction fan, until recently I had never read any of the works of Wilkie Collins. Published in the weekly serial. The no...
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Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus. By St Andrews Special Collections. At the end of July, John Jardine, University Bedellus. For this week’s Reading the Collections post, I turned to the. But elements are no longer publicly accessible and searching the website back to 2003 is always challenging.
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: June 2014
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Thursday, 12 June 2014. It’ll be alright on the night! Many people (quite rightly! A play within a play set in the original Byre Theatre. Rather than performing the entire play on the stage, the cast performed the first act in the downstairs area of the Museum. Some of the cast downstairs during the first act. 4 out of the 5 nights sold out and the plays raised over £700. The funds raised have been split between the Museum and the ...
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: August 2015
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 10 August 2015. Curator's choice: War-time wooden shoes. Our current summer exhibition, Furs, feathers, frills and florals: four decades of fashion, 1919-1959, looks at the development of fashion trends during a period shaped by economic instability and war. These wooden shoes, made in around 1943, are an excellent example of how industry got creative to solve a problem: the rationing of shoes due to rubber and leather shortages.