‘Money and the Making of the American Revolution’ by our very own Andrew Edwards is available for order now, ahead of its publication in December! This book is both an ambitious new interpretation of the Revolution and a fascinating story about the power of economic ideas. (1/2)

📣Out now on #firstview! Nathaniel Andrews, Kate Ferris & Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (all @standrewshist.bsky.social) on 'Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South' #Everyday #History #Geography #Politics 👉Read OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

JOB for historian in Scotland. NB Closing date = 31 October @standrewshist.bsky.social

We hope our students have been enjoying Raisin Monday! How much has it changed since 1975? Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID Group-1975-51

👑 Join us this Thursday as we welcome Alex Woolf from @standrewshist.bsky.social, who’ll be discussing with us the development of Scotland’s early history.

Please complete the School of History EDI survey by following this link before Friday 31 October: Https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cOXpIa1y9q3Tfo2 The survey will take 10-15 minutes, is completely confidential, and redirects History students to a prize draw for a £50 Topping voucher.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe [2nd COMLAWEU conference] (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 5-6 MAY 2026) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2025] 📣 @standrewshist.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/10/call...

Brigid Ehrmantraut, who recently joined the School of History, has a brilliant new book out! ‘Classical Myth in Medieval Ireland’ explores why Irish authors were interested in the history and mythology of the ancient Mediterranean. You can find out more here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/classic...

We have got seminars this week on English Roman Catholic Writers, Frederick the Great, and, well, absolutely nothing!

It’s another action-packed programme this week, with a whole host of lectures, book launches and seminars!

The Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2026-2027. The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

We have got a packed programme of seminars this week!

Laura Incollingo, Postdoctoral Research Assistant with the COMLAWEU project, has an article in the latest issue of @historytoday.com!

The first Modern History Postgraduate Seminar of the semester takes place at 5.15 this evening. It will be presented by co-organiser Emilie Aebischer, and she will be talking about ‘Friedrich Meinecke, Reinhart Koselleck and the “Crisis of Historicism”’.

Some great news to end the week with! We have topped The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 for History! You can find out more here: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/times/

Dr Gamze Yavuzer Eper is organising a workshop on "Legal Pluralism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire", which will be taking place on 27 September 2025 from 10am to 1pm.

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Our latest blog post, by PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Blog Editor, Chloe Akers-Brewer is all about the celebration of September name days: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/felix-n...

No. 1 in the UK for History! The School of History at the University of St Andrews has been ranked No. 1 in the UK in The Guardian University Guide 2026! (1/4)

Are you an undergraduate heading into your third year and want to know more about the step up to honours? Well, Academic Skills for Honours is here to help! These two sessions will tell you all you need to know about the nature of honours modules.

Orientation Week begins on Monday and we are really looking forward to welcoming our new students, and to seeing some familiar faces as well. Pier Walk at St Andrews, c. 1940-5, Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID 1983-1-1 #EvertoExcel

The schedule for our Academic Skills Programme for sub-honours students is out now! These workshops are designed to help first- and second-year undergraduates improve a wide range of skills, from reading primary sources to preparing for exams.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara Beam from the University of Victoria will be joining us this semester as our Cameron Fellow! Professor Beam will also give a paper as part of our Early Modern and Reformation Seminar on 20 November.

📣 #CfP: "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520–1689" Join us for a one-day conference at the University of St Andrews on 26 June 2026. The keynote speaker is Professor Alec Ryrie. The deadline for proposals is 11 December 2025. #EarlyModernHistory #skystorians

We have really been enjoying Roots and Branches, the ideas podcast with Selma Sondern from our Institute of Intellectual History! You can listen to the first two episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0TA8vwp... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Ellen Robertson, a Book History MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social, has written on her fascinating research on a book of metrical psalms with extensive manuscript annotations held in the Special Collections @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/19/s...

The call for papers for ‘Religious Embodiment and Conversion Practices in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800’ is now open! (1/2)

The St Andrews Historian is our annual alumni magazine and we would love to hear from you! If any alumni want to share any professional, personal or academic milestones, please contact us at [email protected]! Image courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID: ms38426/2

Anyone in St Andrews over the last few days will have noticed the Lammas Fair. How much has it changed since 1905? Image Courtesy of St Andrews Library, ALB-27-10-2.

'Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there's time for all things'-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors ☛ New on the blog: ‘By a Lover of Ha, Ha, He’: Jest Books in a Cambridge Auction Catalogue by Anna Grace Gragg (MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social) 🃏📖😆 ustc.ac.uk/news/by-a-lo...

This remarkable site at Sands of Breckon, Yell, is revealing layers of history. Coastal processes have exposed prehistoric houses and burial cairns. @archshet.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social #HESsupported #coastarch #scotarchstrat

The call for papers for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open! The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025. Any inquiries can be directed to Dr Arthur der Weduwen.

📘From our latest Special Issue, Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s' #Empire #Politics #Self 🗃️20thc 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some great news to start the week: congratulations to Professors Caroline Humfress and Richard Whatmore, who have both been elected Fellows of the British Academy! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Updating my China's Revolutions module handbook for the fall and thought I would share these again: Interactive Map to Prepare for a formative map quiz: https://froginawell.net/games/china-map/ Some flashcards to prepare for formative timeline quiz: https://froginawell.net/games/flash/ For […]

This would certainly be one way to begin your summer holiday. Biplanes on West Sands, St Andrews, c. 1932. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-47-33-1

#Wimbledon is in full swing at the moment, but did you know that St Andrews once hosted a ‘notable’ tennis tournament of its own? The Scottish Hard Court Championships first took place at Kinburn Park in 1923, and the tournament continued there (except during World War II) until 1981.

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals! #CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

It’s graduation day for the School of History! Many congratulations to all of our students who are celebrating this week, as you follow in the footsteps of thousands of others who have crossed the Younger Hall stage. Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-18-47-1. #EverToExcel

In the latest life story from the Women Historians of St Andrews project, Patricia Allan reflects on her time as a lecturer in American history at St Andrews during the 1970s: women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/06/04/p...

Turn to page 11 of The Times today (or visit www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...) and you’ll find @jtpmedieval.bsky.social discussing lizard shampoo, bloodletting and other forms of medieval medicine!

Our very own Michael Brown recently appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, discussing John Barbour’s epic poem, The Brus. Give it a listen here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are advertising for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the history of twentieth-century French imperialism and decolonisation. The deadline for applications is 4 July 2025. You can find out more here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Many congratulations to @fea-sta.bsky.social who has been awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education in the King's Birthday Honours List!

We are delighted to announce that John H. Arnold (@CamHistory) 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 2025-2026!

A fantastic programme for the @ssmemotions.bsky.social conference later this month!

🔔🔔🔔 📢 The Second Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Emotions!!!!!

Emma Caster, MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social, explores the career of the German printer, Wolfgang Stöckel (Müller) in a new blog entitled: 'Struggles and Strifes of a Reformation Printer: Printers and Debt in Germany' ustc.ac.uk/news/struggl... #bookhistory #Reformationhistory #earlymodern

It's now just under two weeks until our conference on the 14th of June, hosted by @standrewshist.bsky.social! Free entry online or in-person, don't forget to sign up via the link below, and we look forward to seeing you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-highla...