Good luck to all of our students who are taking exams over the next two weeks! Here is a Scottish History exam, which was set almost sixty years ago in 1967, courtesy of our friends at the St Andrews University Library. #scottishhistory #revision #examseason #exams

We are delighted to announce that @ilcrsta.bsky.social will be holding their annual Donald Winch Memorial Lectures from 12-14 May, in which Professor Susan James (Birkbeck) will be exploring Nicolas Poussin as a philosopher. Check out the poster for further details!

We have a whole range of lectures and seminars this week, including our Furgol Lecture, which takes place later today!

Today’s early modern workshop looks at nature, environment, and historical method, with papers from Orla Keating (University College Cork) and Paige Groot (Queen’s University). All are welcome!

Our Second Furgol Lecture is this coming Monday (13 April), at 5.15pm in Parliament Hall. The lecture, entitled ‘Finlaggan and the Kingdom of the Isles’ will be delivered by Dr David Caldwell. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!

I'll be presenting later this week at the Symposia Iranica V organised by Institute of Iranian Studies at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social / @standrewshist.bsky.social. Look forward to meeting friends and colleagues. Full programme here: iranian.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0...

Since 1998, the St Andrews Prize for the Environment has been recognising organisations from across the world who deliver transformative and sustainable responses to major environmental issues. (1/3)

We're pleased to be supporting the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference @standrewshist.bsky.social on 26 - 27 June 2026 For programme and registration details please see below: pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

Tonight’s Early Modern Workshop explores how ritual, ceremony, and commemoration shaped authority, identity, and collective memory in early modern England. It features papers from Grant Schreiber (University of Guelph) and our very own Abraham Sullivan. All are welcome!

It’s another great set of seminars ahead for you next week. We look forward to seeing you there!

We have got a great set of events for you this week, including our Women’s History Lecture with @drwilliams.bsky.social from Northumbria University on Thursday!

Groundbreaking research, led by @aileenfyfe.bsky.social, has created a unique visualisation identifying, charting and exploring the colonial connections of over 900 students who were at the University of St Andrews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (1/2)

In our seminars this week, we have David Carpenter on Magna Carta, Carlo Emilio Biuzzi on the Hagiographical Representation of Bishops, and Jack Abernethy on the Scots-Dutch ‘Cold War’!

Senior Lecturer Amy Blakeway was on Woman’s Hour yesterday on BBC Radio 4, discussing the history of the term 'the rough wooing', and why she thinks it is time we stopped using it. You can listen to the programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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!

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!

A new installation on ‘Medical alumni in history’ has been unveiled at the School of Medicine. It was designed and installed by our recent PhD graduate – and historian of medicine – @manoncwilliams.bsky.social, and features notable alumni from 19th and 20th century St Andrews. (1/3)

We have got seminars this week on the Crusades, Thomas Malthus and Black Experiences in Fascist Italy. Our Cameron Faculty Fellow Sara Beam will also be giving a seminar this Thursday!

It's brilliant to have helped put some history on the walls in Medicine, with these panels showcasing a selection of 19thC and 20thC alumni - including the first women, and the first students of Indian and African heritage. Congratulations to @manoncwilliams.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social

Come to our free talk tomorrow, Monday 17 November, 7.30pm: "James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran & Governor of Scotland: The best King we never had?" by historian Dr Amy Blakeway @standrewshist.bsky.social At: St Mary's RC Church Hall, Linlithgow Rd, Bo'ness EH51 0DP

We have a whole range of events this week, including seminars on Highland Whig loyalism, Henry II, and much more besides!