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...

Information about these new internship opportunities, and a wealth of additional internship opportunities, as well as the application process can be found on CareerConnect: careerconnect.st-andrews.ac.uk/unauth

Applications close 12/04/2026. (3/3)

This year, the prize will also include a new initiative to directly support our students who wish to engage with the 2026 finalists. Our three finalists will each host a University of St Andrews student on a two-week internship. (2/3)

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)

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...

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!

You can find out more here: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-... (2/2)

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!

Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.

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!

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.

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...