Research Projects

All members of the School of History at St Andrews are actively engaged in research.  Information on individual research interests can be found on the individual web pages and accessed here

The School of History also provides a home for a number of major externally-funded research projects.  These projects often involve several members of staff and employ research assistants; some of our PhD students will also be specifically attached to individual projects.

Recent and current major projects in the School of History:

	The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) is a project aimed at bringing together information on all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century. The project will create a searchable interface, bringing together data from established national bibliographical projects and new projects undertaken by the project team based in St Andrews, with partners in University College, Dublin. This new work builds upon the principles established by the St Andrews French Vernacular Book project, completed and published in 2007.The USTC is funded via a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
	Heirs to the Throne in the Constitutional Monarchies of Nineteenth-Century Europe (1815-1914). This research project will, for the first time, focus systematically and comparatively on the roles played and contributions made by those waiting to come into the glittering inheritance of a European crown. The biological realities of hereditary rule made heirs to the throne a crucial part of monarchical systems. By analysing the heirs to the continent's many thrones, the project will offer a new perspective on the political culture of the states and societies of 19th-century Europe.
	German History St Andrews offers a remarkable concentration of historians working on various aspects of the history of Germany and German-speaking Europe from the late-15th to the 20th century. Our particular strengths lie in the Reformation, the Holy Roman Empire as well as the 19th and 20th century. German History at St Andrews is closely linked to a research initiative focusing on translational history and we keen to locate German history in a wider European context. The group hosts conferences, workshops and offers a range of Honours and Master's level modules
	The History of the Universities Project was initiated in anticipation of the 600th anniversary of the founding of St Andrews University in 2013/4.  It seeks to review not only St Andrews’ role in the history of higher education in Scotland, but also the development of the Scottish Universities more generally and their historic importance in the shaping of Scottish culture ad society since the late middle ages.
	Mapping Medieval Baghdad aims to analyze literary and photographic evidence in order to produce a new series of maps of medieval Baghdad showing the evolution of the city from its foundation (ca.762CE) to the time of the Seljuk conquest in 1055 CE.
	Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, which concluded in 2004, was a seven-year project which led to the publication in hard copy and on CD-Rom of the entire series of Medieval English parliamentary rolls, originally hand-written on strips of parchment.
	The Protestant Latin Bible Project will enhance our understanding of the use of Latin in the sixteenth century through an examination of the movement’s most important text for Protestants produced new translations of the Bible not just into the vernacular, but also into Latin.
	Religion and Public Life in Late Medieval Italy is a project investigating relations between secular and religious communities in late medieval Italy using the phenomenon of secular office-holding by monks and friars nominally dedicated to a life of detachment from the secular world.
	Scotland and the Wider World This innovative project seeks to establish the full extent of Scotland’s links with the ‘Wider World’ particularly in the Early Modern Period
	The Scottish Parliament Project which concluded in 2007 created a new digital edition of the Acts of the Scottish Parliament between its earliest known proceedings in 1235 and the Union of 1707.
	Scotland, Scandinavia & Northern Europe 1580-1707 The SSNE database comprises of information relating to c.5000 individuals from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales who migrated to or worked in Denmark-Norway and Sweden-Finland between 1580 and 1707. They represent the military, naval, diplomatic, intellectual and social elite from the British Isles who operated in northern Europe.