To celebrate International Women's Day, and throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, the School of History at St Andrews will be sharing the stories of some of our historic women historians. First up is Caroline Doris Ketelbey, who was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History in 1935.
At our session yesterday on the careers of women historians in 20thC Britain: lots of mentions of @ihr.bsky.social, also of working with/for the BBC, and for Victoria County Histories. I'm becoming curious about the IHR's role in hosting projects (that hired research assts) long before AHRB...
If you're far from St Andrews, you can read about our first four women PhD historians - Edith MacQueen (1927), Edith Thomson (1928), Elizabeth Menzies (1954) and Edith Johnston (1956) - and our guests - Barbara Crawford (1971) and Vanessa Harding (1983) - at women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
I'm looking forward to our event this afternoon exploring the ways in which the experiences of early-career women historians have (or have not) changed over the last 100 years. We have guests representing the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and talks about pre-1960s women...
PhD funding reminder: deadline 6 March, if you'd like to apply for a fully-funded PhD scholarship to work with me and Milinda Banerjee on the ways in which the University of St Andrews shaped and was shaped, intellectually, by British India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
And we're back! Well, almost. Season 3 launches 7th March 2024. In the meantime, check out Season 1 & 2, as well as a new feature - podcasts we love - at the bottom of each episode on the website. #histsci#philsci#sts 🧪#hps
Today's guest is Sarah Qidwai, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the history of science who focuses on British Imperialism, Science and Colonialism, the relation of Science and Islam, as well as the histor...
My article 'From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century' is now in print: epub August 2022, pub Feb 2024! Will 'official' publication lead to more readers than epublication already has?? #scholarlycomms#histscidoi.org/10.1098/rsnr...
PHD FUNDING: a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews (incl. fees, either home or international rate). Milinda Bannerjee and I are seeking a student to study intellectual/scholarly connections between St Andrews and India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Two fully-funded PhD studentships available at St Andrews on the ERC project 'Communicating the Law in Europe (1500-1750), PI: Dr Arthur der Weduwen www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/news...