St Andrews School of History
@standrewshist.bsky.social
School of History @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
A packed programme of seminars for you this week!
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
A packed programme of seminars for you this week!
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More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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
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February 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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
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PhD Candidate @basilbowdler.bsky.social has recently had an article published in History Today! You can read it here: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
February 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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!
February 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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...
You can find out more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/news...
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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...
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!
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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...
BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 13, England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
King Harold’s lost estate, a Bronze Age burial and whisky-making monks.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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...
BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 13, England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
King Harold’s lost estate, a Bronze Age burial and whisky-making monks.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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!
January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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
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Pier Walk, St Andrews, 1944
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January 26, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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
Pier Walk, St Andrews, 1944
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January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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....
Andrew Edwards at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews
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January 21, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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!
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#Christmas #Snow #StAndrews
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December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for the start of 2026!
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The call for papers for next term’s Modern History Postgraduate Seminar is now open! The deadline is 15 January 2026.
#CfP #ModernHistory
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December 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The call for papers for next term’s Modern History Postgraduate Seminar is now open! The deadline is 15 January 2026.
#CfP #ModernHistory
#CfP #ModernHistory
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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...
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...
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
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!
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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
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
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
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
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#EverToExcel #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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
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.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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.
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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!
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We have got both our Hont and Smout Lectures, amidst another packed programme this week!
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💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
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November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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)
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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)