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STALOS Graduation 2025

On Thursday 4th December staff and students of University of St Andrews School of Classics welcomed Latinists from Bertha Park High School to celebrate their STALOS graduation. The group of young learners from Perth...

Congratulations to Florence Rogers

Congratulations to Florence Rogers who successfully defended her PhD thesis “The Mists of Ancient History: Representations of Fog in Latin Literature”. Florence's research, supported by Handsel...

Congratulations to Alison Hadfield

Congratulations to Alison Hadfield who has successfully defended her PhD thesis “In Touch with the Past: A Sensory Approach to Objects, Memory and Wellbeing”. Her research, which was supported by SGSAH,...