J. D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2017
Do you love books? Photographs? Spend hours in bookstores and charity shops looking for the perfect addition to your collection? Or perhaps you’ve suddenly realised when moving that you’ve got […]
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Our student book collecting winner awarded national prize
The University Library is thrilled that a St Andrews undergraduate, Jenny Elwin (4th Year, English and Modern History), winner of our James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize 2016 has been awarded the first Antiquarian Booksellers’ […]
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Visiting Forbes’ coloured atmospheres
James David Forbes (1809–1868) was part of an early generation of natural philosophers interested in quantifying climate and weather in order to determine how the Earth’s atmosphere behaves. Before the […]
Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015
To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships are intended to underwrite the […]
James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize, 2015, Open!
Are you a hoarder? A collector? Are your shelves filled with your favourite titles? Or maybe you have box filled with letters or photographs which you’ve gathered over time? Tell […]
