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

Dr Guy Rowlands awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the British Academy

Dr David Allan Receives 2010 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award

A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (London: British Library, 2008) has been awarded the 2010 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award by the Gleason Book Award Committee of the American Library Association Library History Round Table. Presented every third year, the Gleason Award recognizes the best book written in English in the field of library history. An in-depth analysis of the mechanics of reading in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, A Nation of Readers draws upon a wide array of evidentiary sources to explore the book clubs, subscription and circulating libraries, and other book-lending entities that preceded the public library.

Dr Chandrika Kaul interviewed by Melvin Bragg on BBC Radio 4

Dr Chandrika Kaul, lecturer in British imperialism and print culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was recently a guest on Melvin Bragg's In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. As in her past contributions to the same programme, Dr Kaul provided her expert perspective on Indian and British imperial history. In this instance, she discussed the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion that  followed. Details can be found found on BBC Radio 4's designated page for Dr Kaul, which also provides a facility to hear this and her past contributions (please note that you may not be able to listen to the programme if you are accessing it from outside the UK): 

St Andrews library accessions major new digital resources

St Andrews library has subscribed to two major new digital collections to support advanced work in Reformation and Early Modern History.

The TEMPO database is a large collection of 16th and 17th century pamphlets published by Brill.  It offers complete accessed to some of the greatest surviving collections of early German and Dutch pamphlets: the Knuttel collection in the Royal Library in The Hague, the Van Alphen collection of Groningen library, and the Tübingen pamphlet project.  These new accessions complement major collections of French, Swiss and German materials already available in St Andrews. 

St Andrews Early Modernists have also welcomed the decision to subscribe to the digital version of the English 16th- and 17th-century State Papers.  An ongoing venture of Gale / Centage, this will make available to scholars working in the field a vast amount of primary source material in a convenient digital format. It includes images of most of the manuscript records produced by central government in the Tudor period, and now preserved in The National Archives at Kew and the British Library.

Dr Struck to deliver a keynote speech

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.