Bonarjee Postgraduate Essay Prize

All postgraduate students in the School of History at the University of St Andrews are encouraged and invited to compete for the

Bonarjee Postgraduate Essay Prize

This competition is designed to encourage students to produce an essay of the form and quality appropriate for publication in a learned journal. Entrants are encouraged to draw upon their current research.

Prize £500

In keeping with the terms of the bequest for this prize, candidates must address a subject for any period post 1450. Further details available here.

School Book Prizes

Congratulations to all students who have been awarded book prizes by the School of History for distinction level performance at subhonours in 2009-10.

Students who have received an award email can now select their prize by clicking here.

Honours Pre-advising 2010-11

Pre-advising information is now available online for all students entering Junior Honours courses or returning students entering Senior Honours in the School of History during the 2010-11 academic year. The website contains information on the application process and the degree programmes, including  requirements for entrance to Honours and up-to-date details of all available course modules in Junior and Senior Honours.

Visit the Pre-advising website.

Thinking about Postgraduate Study?

With over 50 members of staff, a large graduate community and extensive specialist library resources the School of History provides an ideal environment for postgraduate study.

For information on taught postgraduate programmes (graduate diploma, MLitt, MPhil) click here.

For information on funding for taught programmes and PhDs click here

Scholarships for intensive language tuition

Additional key benefits of studying as a postgraduate student at St Andrews:

• Research funds – individual allowances and discretionary awards
• Office space
• Opportunities for teaching

Researchers’ Night 2010: Scotland and the Wider World, 24 September 2010

On 24 September the School of History of the University of St Andrews will host Scotland’s first ever Researchers’ Night (3pm-11pm). A Researchers’ Night is a European Commission-funded event held simultaneously in different academic institutions throughout the EU. It aims to celebrate research activities, stimulate interest in research among a wide non-academic audience and encourage the consideration of research as a profession. In St Andrews Researchers’ Night 2010 will showcase the numerous and diverse research topics examined by historians. There will be a wide range of exciting and informative events from 3pm onwards which will include public lectures by leading scholars, children’s activities and guided tours at the Museum of the University of St. Andrews (MUSA), dramatised readings, exhibitions, a wine reception and live music in the historic Parliament Hall of St. Andrews. A special emphasis will be placed on Professor Steve Murdoch’s research project ‘Scotland and the Wider World’ who, with his project team, will offer demonstrations and trial sessions of the ‘Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, 1580-1707’ – Database, a compendium of biographical information of more than 7000 Scottish men and women which can also be used as a genealogical tool.

All activities and events are free of charge, but some require booking.  For those who cannot make it to St Andrews on the day there will be podcasts and live-streamed lectures available online. For further information see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/researchersnight or contact Dr Kathrin Zickermann (0131 4661122, kz7@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Dr Sumi David (01334 4623302, sjd10@st-andrews.ac.uk). 

Postdoc Success for Scottish History Students at the IHR

Two students from the Scotland and the Wider World Project at the University of St Andrews have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships at the IHR for AY2010/11.

From October 2010, *Dr Kathrin Zickermann* will be the *Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research*. The title of her project is: 'Across the German Sea': The Commercial Activities and Transnational Networks of Scottish Merchant Families in the Early Modern Period.

From October 2010, *Siobhan Talbott* will be the *Economic HistorySociety Tawney Fellow 2010-11, at the Institute of Historical Research*. The title of the project is: "'Every Man Lives by Exchanging': The British Commercial Dynamic on the French Atlantic Coast, c.1603-1707".

For more on the Scotland and the Wider World Project visit:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/research/scotlandworld/about.html

Forthcoming Conferences

The School of History will be hosting a number of conferences and workshops in 2010 including the biennial meeting of the Reformation Studies Colloquiumn, the Shahnameh and Persianate Identity conference hosted by the Institute for Iranian Studies and a Transnational Media workshop hosted by the Centre for Transnational History. Further details of all the conferences hosted by the School can be found by visiting the Forthcoming Conferences page.

Forthcoming Conferences

School of History ranked amongst the top in the UK for research and teaching

AHRC Block Grant Awards

For more information on applying for one of these awards, please follow the link to the AHRC postgraduate funding page.