‘History In Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time’ is a brilliant new exhibition, created in collaboration with Alison Beach and her team here at the School of History. You can go and see it now at The McManus in Dundee. Find out more here: www.mcmanus.co.uk/exhibitions/...

In February I gave a talk at the @standrewshist.bsky.social Monday Medieval Seminar asking whether we can repurpose B. Rosenwein's emotional communities method in the context of late antique architecture. Does anyone have any further thoughts or feedback on this? youtu.be/vm2c8_ak_g4?...

Emotional Architectures: Basilicas and Churches as a New “Emotional Community” in Late Antique Gaul

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Another great @standrewshist.bsky.social conference! Balancing the heatwave with some chilling talks on death.

Our new Book History seminar launches this September, with a fantastic programme of internal and external speakers! All are more than welcome.

It is graduation day for the School of History! Many congratulations to all of our students who are celebrating this week. Graduation Ceremony, 1934. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-18-46-8 #EverToExcel #ForeverSaints

A brilliant article, by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, on Louis XV's medical body has just been published. You can read it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/993279

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It's been long in the making, so I'm thrilled to see this article on Louis XV's medical body out in print in the latest issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Later this month, we are hosting a conference on grief, organised by two members of the School of History. You can register for the conference here: griefconference2026.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Savage House, starring Richard E. Grant, Claire Foy and Bel Powley, is out in cinemas today, and Professor Guy Rowlands was a historical consultant for the film!

The Women Historians of St Andrews project has recently published a post on the career of one of our Modern History alumnae, Alex Walmsley. You can read it here: women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/12/a...

Alex Walmsley, charity trustee and defence consultant

Alex Walmsley graduated with a MA Honours degree in Modern History with International Relations in 1993, and then stayed to complete a PhD in Modern History in 1998. She has enjoyed a long career i…

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At this year’s 1413 Teaching Awards, our very own Dr Ana Del Campo won the Outstanding Teacher in Arts and Divinity Award, and Dr Valerie Wallace the Inclusive Education Excellence Award for her module ‘Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707–1914’. Many congratulations!

Many congratulations to our very own Professor Emily Michelson, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for 2026-27, to support her research on ‘Muslims, Jews and Orthodox in Europe’s rupture’.

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...

Programme and Registriation for the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference - Past and Present

received from Abraham Sullivan (University of St. Andrews) Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689 A two-day conference on the theme ‘Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 15...

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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.