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History at St Andrews: Still No. 1 in the UK!
The School of History at the University of St Andrews has been ranked as the UK’s top destination for studying History by the The Guardian University Guide 2027 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027 #EverToExcel
Our Black History Month talk is tomorrow (14 October) and will be delivered by Vitali Byl, our Global Fellow. The talk is titled ‘A Forgotten Hinterland of the Black Atlantic: Africans in Early Modern East-Central Europe.’ (1/2)
This Thursday, Professor Alison Beach will be delivering a lecture to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, entitled ‘History in Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time’. This is a hybrid event and you can book your free places here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-i…
This evening’s Early Modern Workshop looks at society in the eighteenth century. It will take place at 5.15pm in the New Seminar Room, St John’s House. For the Teams link, you can contact the organisers.
Tomorrow (7 October) in our Book History Seminar series, we have Shanti Graheli from the University of Glasgow presenting on ‘Reading early modern botanical annotations as biodiversity data’. The seminar is at 4.15pm in the Old Class Library, St John’s House. All are welcome!
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The History in our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time exhibition is taking place at The McManus in Dundee.
It's free and well worth a visit.
This Thursday, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Iranian studies, the former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, The Rt Hon Jack Straw, will deliver the Nick Browne Memorial lecture on the topic of Britain’s relationship with Iran.
Many congratulations to the team behind ‘History in our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time’, which has been awarded the 2026 Pieta Greaves Award for Engagement and Collaboration! This is a UK-wide prize given by the Society of Museum Archaeologists! (1/2)
Our postgraduate early modern workshop is back this evening, with papers from Andrew Simpson and Zina Gharakhani!
Call for Papers: Lutheranism and the British Isles!
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are welcomed from postgraduate students, early career researchers, and established scholars across history, theology, literature, musicology, and material studies.
Deadline: 31 December 2026
It’s orientation week! We have had a great time welcoming our new students and seeing some familiar faces. We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer! Pictures are from the garden party which we hosted for our new students on Tuesday.
Do you know who this student might be? We are trying to trace the identity of this part-Māori student, who attended the University of St Andrews in the 1860s.
You can read more about this here: rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao-maori/1…
Image courtesy of University of St Andrews, ALB-1-65.
‘Esperanto Wor(l)ds: Dundee, Scotland, and the Creation of an International Language’, an exhibition curated by Bernhard Struck and Claire Taylor, opened today at Dundee Central Library. Do go and have a look!
We have a great programme this coming semester for the Reformation and Early Modern Studies Seminar, including our Annual Reformation Day Lecture!
Today sees the best solar eclipse in St Andrews since 1999. Here’s a photograph of a much earlier eclipse, taken around 1875 near Blair Atholl
Image courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID: ms37103/6/6v
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@DrRoryCox , whose book ‘Solar: A History of Humanity and the Sun’ is out next year, was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday. You can listen to the programme here (he appears around the 1 hour 24 minute mark): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00300….
#solareclipse2026 (2/2)
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A #solareclipse on 12 August? Sounds familiar!
There are some fascinating books dedicated to solar eclipses in the USTC, and thanks to Chloe Akers-Brewer and Sarah Parker, we have put together some of the best.
Pictured are USTC 2635543, 993980, 2561601 and 4041685.
#eclipse2026
