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The University of St Andrews Library dates back to the early 17th century but its books have been collected over some 600 years since the university was founded in 1413. It holds one of the most extensive collections of the research libraries in the United Kingdom with more than one million volumes.
Throughout St Andrews' history a number of notable people have been elected to the post, including the actor John Cleese, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, author and poet Rudyard Kipling and the British Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. [62] Madras College's former campus is the proposed location for New ...
The history of the University of St Andrews began with its foundation in 1410 when a charter of incorporation was bestowed upon the Augustinian priory of St Andrews Cathedral. The University grew in size quite rapidly; St Salvator's College was established in 1450, St Leonard's College in 1511 and St Mary's College in 1537.
In 1808, she donated two shells brought by her father from India to the University of St Andrews, [5] as a result of which she received borrowing rights to the University Library, and evidence of her reading life in St Andrews began. Between 1815 and 1826, she borrowed 412 books, an average of forty-five books a year.
Clare Downham is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Ireland and Britain and the Vikings, specialising in the era 400 to 1350. [1]She studied for degrees in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, completing a PhD at the latter in 2003.
In 2015, the Charleston County Public Library renamed its St. Andrews Library branch, which she managed, the Cynthia Graham Hurd St. Andrews Regional Library, [16] with local news reporting in 2020, "Those who visited the branches she worked at, and the staff who worked alongside her, say they’ll never forget her kindness."
Walker still lives in St Andrews. Walker is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the University of St Andrews Department of Mediaeval History. In 2013 she was awarded the St Andrews University Medal in recognition of “her exceptional and dedicated contribution to the University over most of her lifetime”. [3]
The four galleries aim to tell the story of the University of St Andrews from its foundation in 1410 until the present day. Each gallery takes a different theme. 'Scotland's First University' covers the foundation and early period of the university's history.