Today was the last trip of the Global Office Scottish history summer school! On the penultimate day of 'Scotland's History: Kingdom, Nation, People', the group travelled to Perth. Here's the Black Watch Castle and Museum! The Black Watch Castle and Museum University of St Andrews ISHR_StAndrews St Andrews History

📚Explore the storied lives of Suffolk's parochial library collections in a new blog post: 'Non mihi sed omnibus: Suffolk’s Last Parochial Libraries' by current MLitt student St Andrews History Emily Wildish.📚 #bookhistory #libraryhistory #collectionhistory ustc.ac.uk/news/non-mihi-…

Turn to page 11 of The Times today (or visit thetimes.com/uk/history/art…) and you’ll find James T Palmer discussing lizard shampoo, bloodletting and other forms of medieval medicine!

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians

In the latest life story from the Women Historians of St Andrews project, Patricia Allan reflects on her time as a lecturer in American history at St Andrews during the 1970s: women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/06/04/pat…

Do check out this new intellectual history podcast hosted by Selma Sondern Institute of Intellectual History - the first episode features Richard Whatmore (St Andrews History) on why the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century republicanism, & the history of free states matter for global politics today

It’s graduation day for the School of History! Many congratulations to all of our students who are celebrating this week, as you follow in the footsteps of thousands of others who have crossed the Younger Hall stage. Courtesy of University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-18-47-1

#Wimbledon is in full swing at the moment, but did you know that St Andrews once hosted a ‘notable’ tennis tournament of its own? The Scottish Hard Court Championships first took place at Kinburn Park in 1923, and it continued there (except during World War II) until 1981.

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The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-libr…

Was such a pleasure to present at this international conference on Understanding King James VI & I at the University of Glasgow!

What a three days! Thank you so much to all our speakers and attendees! 👑

St Leonard's Postgraduate College can apply for the Europaeum History Seminar "The Future of the European Past". 📌Oxford, 27-28 November ⏰Apply by 25 July 🚆Travel and accommodation included St Andrews History Modern Languages at St Andrews School of International Relations europaeum.org/cfa-the-europa…

This would certainly be one way to begin your summer holiday. Biplanes on West Sands, St Andrews, c. 1932. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-47-33-1

Congratulations to Professor Caroline Humfress and Professor Richard Whatmore from St Andrews History on their election to The British Academy Fellowship. 👏 Read more ⬇️ ow.ly/vgUK50WrITF #EverToExcel

Some great news to start the week: congratulations to Professors Caroline Humfress and Richard Whatmore, who have both been elected Fellows of the British Academy!

Great day at the Scottish history and emotions workshop at the University of Edinburgh!

📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews History) & Kerstin von Lingen (Universität Wien) 👉Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🗃️ 20thc

📘From our latest Special Issue, Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews History) & Kerstin von Lingen (Universität Wien) on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s' #Empire #Politics #Self 🗃️20thc 👉Read open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The #CfP for the second COMLAWEU conference, on the dissemination of the law in Early Modern Europe, is now open! The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025. Any inquiries can be directed to Arthur der Weduwen