We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

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

Oh! Lots of goodies here, starting with Bill Jenkins on David Brewster #histSTM edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-david-b...

For #StAndrewsDay we are sharing @martinspychal.bsky.social's recent post on Scottish county politics between 1832 and 1868, drawing on @histparl.bsky.social's research on Scotland’s constituencies: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/s...

Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism

Looking forward to Helen Wilson speaking on Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850, to a joint session of @long18thsem.bsky.social and the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

the call is now open for our next round of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Research Fellows! - find out more here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...

👀ICYMI: "if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted." #AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm

Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science. 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome). Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...

It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

With this years Ashes beginning in the early hours of this morning, we thought we'd point you in the direction of @TheVictCommons where they explore the link between cricket and the Victorian House of Commons historyofparliament.com/2025/11/20/c...

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory: Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830 www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

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)

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

Think about the way that the current scientific publishing system is draining resources out of the research ecosystem... That drain is most obvious in terms of money (and this is so despite #openaccess), but there's also an erosion of time, trust and control [1/n]

It is clear what we need. It is to re-communalise academic publishing. Its costs funding are met by learned societies and their funders; profits go back to research, as do the data it generates. Researchers repeatedly call for this. tinyurl.com/bdekus68rofits

"Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle? www.acfas.ca/publications...

'Since the Lloyd’s Register Foundation reported in 2018 that fewer than 3% of statues in the UK were of real, non-royal women, several campaigns aimed at documenting and achieving greater gender representation in public art have gained a foothold.' 2/2

Neat new report from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social on the value of social science to society acss.org.uk/news/new-aca...

New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Fantastic resource for 18thC historians!

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

It's 10 years since the Open Library of Humanities published its first article. Since then, OLH has published 13,000 open access scholarly articles which have been downloaded over 8 million times. This excellent editorial by Rose looks back at that decade. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Any early-modern Scottish #skystorians? re monarchs and popes: BBC says 'first British', Guardian says 'first reigning English' monarch to pray with the Pope ('in the last 500 years', 'since the Reformation' or 'since 1534'). Does the distinction matter? Did James V or MaryQS pray with the Pope?

Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9

Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December. We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

Died #OnThisDay 1877 William Henry Fox Talbot. Best known as the pioneer of photography, he was also briefly MP for Chippenham, 1832-5, but stepped down to concentrate on his scientific interests. There’s more on him in our short article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/w...

Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the Hughes Prize 2025! Check out these four highly intriguing books from different corners of the history of STEM, all of them perfect reads for non-experts. Accessible to broader audiences, they will take you to unexpected places and times! 🧵

This is a great PhD opportunity for someone! I was lucky to do some work on Sarah Sophia’s coin collection in early days www.bl.uk/services/res...

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

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

Lovely event in #StAndrews yesterday - the reopening of the Heritage Museum on North Street. Local history (toy shop!) blended with an awareness of the wider world (medieval European connections; the colonial trade in sugar; Italian, Polish and Ukrainian migrants...)

More detail on the three winners of the @bshsnews.bsky.social Exhibiting Excellence Prize for #histSTM exhibitions 📜 www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-exhibit...

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

It was fantastic to see #histsci friend @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social on stage at @edbookfest.bsky.social last week. I particularly love the images of the author hard at work signing books...

Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor. For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest

#jobfairy - #histmed position at Dalhousie/Uni of Kings College in Halifax (interested to see a 'chair' is a junior position, tenure stream not tenured - does 'chair' just mean 'externally funded' in the Canadian system?) 🗃️

This Special Issue from #NotesandRecords focuses on the complex cultural connections between Japanese and British science in the nineteenth century. Read the issue here: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsnr/202... #HistSci

Proof that #bsky isn't (yet, for me) performing the role that the #birdsite once did... Far more people have visited our University report into legacies of empire (legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk ) from #LinkedIn than from here.

Our next Wikipedia editing club is this Saturday 16 August in Bramblers Cafe, Perth 10-12. Editors at all levels of confidence welcome. Bring your own device! #WeCanEdit #PerthScotland

N8 and Russell Group universities both exploring whether collaboration can help retain modern languages provision. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/3UWf8Aj

The vast majority of UK students attend good to excellent universities that don't have or use the "right" spoons. De-spoon the university.

Important info for parents with children nearing university-age: even with a part-time job, parental financial support will be needed (because government-provided loans/grants just aren't enough to provide a realistic income for students in any part of the UK). Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social

'Updating their work on the amount of money students need to get by, the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Loughborough University researchers have estimated that first-year students in halls of residence need £418 per week to cover their living costs – including £158 on rent.' 1/3