St Andrews academic shortlisted for Britain’s foremost history prize
Wolfson History Prize celebrating outstanding history
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Very Superstitious
To mark Friday the thirteenth, historian Dr Peter Maxwell-Stuart provides us with an insight into superstition and the history behind the phrase ‘unlucky for some’. Is it really rational behaviour or just a trick of…
University of St Andrews professors recognised for high achievement
Professors John Hudson and Lorna Hutson have been elected Fellows of the British Academy
Scotland and Flanders trace shared heritage
International conference explores 600 years of migration
Versaille… and St Andrews
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Louis XIV’s death in 1715, the French television channel Canal Plus commissioned ‘Versailles‘, a ten-part drama on the Sun King and the great palace with which he is most…
University of St Andrews mediaeval historian meets the Queen
Expert part of Magna Carta 800 anniversary
Graduation address - Dr Stephen Tyre
Graduation address for Thursday 27 June 2013, 2pm.
Surviving science
Researchers undertake longest read in history.
The stunt that stunted space exploration
Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's famous mission, Professor Gerard DeGroot questions the value of his flight for space strategy.
Bugs under the Victorian microscope
'Bugs and the Victorians' explores the history of an age.