After the spring holiday, we are back with another stellar set of seminars for you this week! We look forward to seeing you there.
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After the spring holiday, we are back with another stellar set of seminars for you this week! We look forward to seeing you there.
I spent a fun morning at a local primary school as an exchange teacher from 1897: how have education, child labour and transport changed since Victorian times?! Does anyone here remember the earlier outings of this costume? @bshsnews.bsky.social @irmorus.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social
Our events this week!
The origins of #curling, one of many highlights of the #winterolympics, stretch back to sixteenth-century Scotland. Here are some curlers taking to the ice in Scotscraig, near Tayport, Fife in the 1890s.
Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID CMD-2.
Our seminars this week look capitalism, the protests in Iran, and much much more.
We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
‘Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative History of International Communication’ by Guilherme Fians, Bernhard Struck and Claire Taylor is out now in #OpenAccess!
You can read it here (@uolpress.bsky.social) : doi.org/10.63674/wuj....
A packed programme of seminars for you this week!
Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Professor @alisonibeach.bsky.social was interviewed in the latest episode of the podcast ’Tis but a Scratch. You can give it a listen here: tis-but-a-scratch-fact-and-fiction-about-the-middle-ages.buzzsprout.com/1925107/epis...
#MedievalSky
PhD Candidate @basilbowdler.bsky.social has recently had an article published in History Today! You can read it here: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Our events this week!
Wolfgang Mueller ((Fordham University) will be joining the Department of Medieval History, School of History at the University of St Andrews, as the Bullough Fellow in the academic year 2026-2027.
You can find out more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/news...
Our Postgraduate Modern History Seminar has another stellar programme this term, and it gets back underway on 10 February!
Tune into Digging for Britain on BBC Two tomorrow at 8pm to find out more about our dig at Lindores Abbey! You can also catch it right now on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tune into Digging for Britain on BBC Two tomorrow at 8pm to find out more about our dig at Lindores Abbey! You can also catch it right now on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
We are back with a great set of seminars and talks this week!
It is the first day of teaching of the Candlemas semester! A big welcome back to all of our students. We hope you had a restful break!
Pier Walk, St Andrews, 1944
Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID ms38585/1/C/1/13
Our Early Modern Postgraduate Workshop is back this Monday!
#earlymodern
On 9 February our very own Dr Andrew Edwards will be discussing his new book, Money and the Making of the American Revolution, at Toppings! Event details can be found here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an....
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for the start of 2026!
Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID JV-2157X-B
#Christmas #Snow #StAndrews
The call for papers for next term’s Modern History Postgraduate Seminar is now open! The deadline is 15 January 2026.
#CfP #ModernHistory
Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'.
All are welcome to attend.
Please complete your registration by 5 January.
We look forward to seeing you there!
More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
On 24-25 June 2026, Dr Ana Del Campo and Dr Lili Scott Lintott will be organising a conference here in St Andrews, entitled: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Grief from Antiquity to the Present. Check out the Call for Papers for further details!
Good luck to all of our students who are taking exams over the next two weeks!
Here is a Modern History exam from 1911, courtesy of our friends at the University Library. How do you think you would have got on?
#revision #examseason #exams
It’s winter graduation day today! Many congratulations to our students and to our new professors, who are also being inducted today!
Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID Group-1911-1
#EverToExcel #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025
We have got seminars on conservative political thought and the Anglo-Scottish Union, combat history in the Second World War, and Philipp Melanchthon to round off the calendar year.
Wishing you all a Happy St Andrew's Day!
#StAndrewsDay #EverToExcel #Scotland
The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...
We have got both our Hont and Smout Lectures, amidst another packed programme this week!