Vigil for the people of Iran

Students, staff and members of the wider St Andrews community are invited to stand together to remember the thousands of men, women and children killed in...

Date

Wednesday 11 February 2026

Time

04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

Location

Buchanan Lecture Theatre

LGBTQ+ History Month 'Flash' Talks

School of Art History and the School of History

Hosted by the School of Art History and the School of History, this event presents a series of short and informal 'Flash' talks by students and...

Date

Thursday 12 February 2026

Time

05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Location

Students Union

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Cian Cooney

Intifada Avoided? Violence, Scandals & Moroccan Independence: 1953-1958

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Cian Cooney -- Intifada Avoided? Violence, Scandals & Moroccan Independence: 1953-1958

Date

Thursday 12 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

Date

Thursday 14 May 2026

Time

06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Location

School I, St Salvator's Quad

Institute of Intellectual History Carl Wennerlind (Barnard/Columbia)

Capitalism: For and Against

all welcome

Date

Wednesday 18 February 2026

Time

05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Sarah Rindlisbacher (Bern)

Godly Agents. Swiss Reformed Clergymen and their Influence on Foreign Relations with England in the 1650s

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Sarah Rindlisbacher (Bern) -- Godly Agents. Swiss Reformed Clergymen and their Influence on Foreign...

Date

Thursday 19 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 05:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute of Intellectual History Sarah Naramore (Edinburgh)

Can Medicine have a National Context?: Benjamin Rush's Biological Revolution and its Legacy

all welcome

Date

Wednesday 4 March 2026

Time

05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Ebba Strutzenbladh (University of Aberdeen)

Ward and marriage, ward or marriage: motherhood and custody in late medieval Aberdeen

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Ebba Strutzenbladh (University of Aberdeen) -- Ward and marriage, ward or marriage: motherhood...

Date

Thursday 12 February 2026

Time

05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute of Intellectual History Poppy Kershaw (St Andrews)

Seeing Like a State in F. W. Maitland

all welcome

Date

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Time

05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Professor Timothy Greenwood

Water Rights (and Wrongs) in Medieval Armenia

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Professor Timothy Greenwood -- Water Rights (and Wrongs) in Medieval Armenia

Date

Thursday 16 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Sukwoo Choi (St Andrews)

Calvin's long print afterlife in Protestant England

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Sukwoo Choi (St Andrews) -- Calvin's long print afterlife in Protestant England

Date

Thursday 12 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute of Intellectual History Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary)

Five Myths About 'the West' and Why Intellectual History Matters

all welcome

Date

Wednesday 11 March 2026

Time

05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (St Andrews)

Crescent Moon, Hammer, and Sickle: Muslim Socialists, Marxist Muslims, and Islamic Populists in Modern Iran

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi -- Crescent Moon, Hammer, and Sickle: Muslim Socialists, Marxist Muslims, and...

Date

Thursday 26 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 05:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon (UHI)

Christianity in Late Norse Orkney: parishes, pilgrimage and patronage

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon (UHI) -- Christianity in Late Norse Orkney: parishes, pilgrimage and...

Date

Thursday 26 February 2026

Time

05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume Voyage Round Great Britain. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

Date

Thursday 9 April 2026

Time

06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Location

School I, St Salvator's Quad

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Orçun Okan (Oxford University)

Grappling with Bureaucracies and Nationality: Binding Needs and State Succession in the post-Ottoman Middle East

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr Orçun Okan (Oxford University) -- Grappling with Bureaucracies and Nationality: Binding Needs and State...

Date

Thursday 2 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Jack Abernethy

An Antagonistic Alliance: James VI, Colonel William Stewart, and the Scots-Dutch 'Cold War,' c.1585-1594

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Jack Abernethy (St. Andrews) -- An Antagonistic Alliance: James VI, Colonel William Stewart,...

Date

Thursday 19 March 2026

Time

05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Felicity Hill

Royal proclamations in high medieval England

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Felicity Hill (St Andrews) -- Royal proclamations in high medieval England

Date

Monday 23 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...

Date

Thursday 12 February 2026

Time

06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Location

School I, St Salvator's Quad

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies JOINT SEMINAR with ISHR -- Dr Russell Ó Ríagřin

Northern Britain and the Ívarlingar (descendents of Ívarr the Dubgall), c. 830--1100

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies JOINT SEMINAR with The Institute for Scottish Historical Research -- Dr Russell Ó Ríagřin -- Northern...

Date

Monday 16 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

Middle East and Iranian JOINT SEMINAR with ILCR --- Dr Nadine Viermann (Durham University)

Al-Andarin/Androna in the Syrian Steppe: Observations on a Late Antique Frontier Zone

Middle East and Iranian JOINT SEMINAR with ILCR --- Dr Nadine Viermann (Durham University) -- Al-Andarin/Androna in the Syrian Steppe: Observations on...

Date

Thursday 19 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor Andrew Peacock

Translating the Bible in Mongol Tabriz

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor Andrew Peacock -- Translating the Bible in Mongol Tabriz

Date

Monday 9 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Postgraduate Session

Details to follow

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Postgraduate Session -- Details to follow

Date

Thursday 23 April 2026

Time

05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies: ANNUAL LECTURE -- Professor Catherine Holmes (Oxford)

Byzantium and Neighbouring Worlds: A Kinetic Commonwealth?

St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies: ANNUAL LECTURE -- Professor Catherine Holmes (Oxford) -- Byzantium and Neighbouring Worlds: A Kinetic...

Date

Monday 23 February 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

Middle East and Iranian Seminar -- Dr Murat Şiviloğlu (Trinity College Dublin)

Legality in Transition: Criminal Justice in the Tanzimat Era

Middle East and Iranian Seminar -- Dr Murat Şiviloğlu (Trinity College Dublin) -- Legality in Transition: Criminal Justice in the Tanzimat Era

Date

Thursday 26 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Helen Williams (Northumbria University)

Towards a Global Women's Book History, 1600-1900

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Helen Williams (Northumbria University) -- Towards a Global Women's Book History, 1600-1900

Date

Thursday 26 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr L F Pecorini Goodall (Leiden University)

Umm Walī ʿAhd al-Muslimīn: Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar in Armenia and the Arabian Peninsula

Middle East and Iranian Seminar --- Dr L F  Pecorini Goodall (Leiden University) -- Umm Walī ʿAhd al-Muslimīn: Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar in Armenia and...

Date

Thursday 12 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Stacie Vos (San Diego)

Page, Stage, Spine: Modern Bookwomen and their Medieval Sources

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Stacie Vos (San Diego) -- Page, Stage, Spine: Modern Bookwomen and their Medieval Sources

Date

Monday 30 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor David Carpenter (KCL)

The Harvard law School Magna Carta: its discovery and authentication

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor David Carpenter (KCL) -- The Harvard law School Magna Carta: its discovery and...

Date

Monday 16 March 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Alisa van de Haar (Leiden University)

Netherlandish Migrants in the Language Sector of Early Modern England

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Alisa van de Haar (Leiden University) -- Netherlandish Migrants in the Language Sector of Early Modern...

Date

Thursday 30 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...

Date

Thursday 12 March 2026

Time

06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Location

School I, St Salvator's Quad

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Professor Joel Harrington (Vanderbilt, Visiting Fellow)

The Marketing of Hans Staden's True History: Cannibals, Cannibals, Cannibals

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Professor Joel Harrington (Vanderbilt, Visiting Fellow) -- The Marketing of Hans Staden's True History:...

Date

Thursday 16 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Clare Loughlin (University of Aberdeen)

Church, State, and anti-popery in early eighteenth-century Scotland

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Clare Loughlin (University of Aberdeen) -- Church, State, and anti-popery in early...

Date

Thursday 2 April 2026

Time

05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Medieval History, 71 South Street

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor Carlo Tedeschi (Chieti-Pescara)

Civic Memory through Graffiti. The case of the Cathedral of Parma

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Professor Carlo Tedeschi (Chieti-Pescara) -- Civic Memory through Graffiti. The case of the...

Date

Monday 20 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar : The Furgol Lecture -- Dr David Caldwell

Finlaggan and the Kingdom of the Isles

The Furgol Lecture -- Dr David Caldwell -- Finlaggan and the Kingdom of the Isles

Date

Monday 13 April 2026

Time

05:15 pm to 06:45 pm

Location

Parliament Hall