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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

The Great Plum Pudding ‘Bake’-Off

21/12/2017by St Andrews Special Collections 2 Comments

Four more sleeps till Christmas. The mental background burble of the culinary checklist is getting louder. Make pastry. Bake biscuits for gingerbread house. Make mince pies. Prove stollen. Decorate Christmas […]

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Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative Annual Lecture 2017

13/11/2017by St Andrews Special Collections Leave a comment

The Annual Lecture of the Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative is to be delivered this year by author Sarah Waters (5:30pm 15th November, Booth Lecture Theatre, Medical Building). Waters […]

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Events, Rare Book Collection

Reading the Collections, Week 42: A Christmas Carol

24/12/2015by St Andrews Special Collections 3 Comments

My earliest exposure to this seminal work of Dickens was a film adaptation notable for being performed by a cast of singing muppets. Since then I’ve seen straight adaptations, parodies, […]

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Rare Book Collection, Reading the Collections

Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

11/06/2015by St Andrews Special Collections Leave a comment

Despite being a keen detective fiction fan, until recently I had never read any of the works of Wilkie Collins: Victorian author and early pioneer of mystery and detective fiction. […]

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Rare Book Collection, Reading the Collections

Cataloguing Completed: the Hargreaves Collection

09/10/2013by St Andrews Special Collections Leave a comment

The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke […]

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