#UnivofStAndrews

Elizabeth Peddie Steele Hutton MA (1866-1917) While wandering along the West Sands or over the Links at the turn of the twentieth century, a walker may have come across a student of history and, latterly, divinity gazing out towards the St And…

Another new contribution to 'Women Historians of St Andrews':
Elizabeth Steele Hutton, one of first #women to graduate MA Honours in #History at #UnivofStAndrews, 1903, and first female editor of the student magazine.
women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/04/11/e...

Elizabeth G.K. Hewat (1895-1968) In 1933, Elizabeth Glendinning Kirkwood Hewat quoted from the Book of Proverbs: ‘Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom’.[1] She was, perhaps, referring to a definition of wisdom other…

New contributions to 'Women Historians of St Andrews' include:
Elizabeth Hewat: graduate #EdinburghUni, lecturer #History #UnivofStAndrews 1919-20. Hoped to be ordained ChScotland minister. Later, missionary, scholar, educator in China and India.
women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/02/e...

Edith Johnston was the first St Andrews woman PhD historian to successfully pursue an academic career: from school in #Belfast to MA PhD #UnivofStAndrews to jobs at #UniSheffield and #MacquarieUniversity, then back to Ireland. women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/07/24/e...
#WomensHistoryMonth

Lorna Walker (d.2023) Lorna Walker in 1983. Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID: Group-1981-53 Lorna Walker studied History at St Andrews in the late 1940s, and returned in the 1960s as a …

Sad to hear the news of the passing of one of our former colleagues: Lorna Walker was Warden of University Hall
#univofstandrews from 1961-91, and lecturer (later SL) in Mediaeval History #StAndrewsHist from 1961-94. We interviewed her in 2021 women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/04/11/l...