Alison Baverstock graduated with an MA in Mediaeval History & Fine Arts in 1980. A leading figure in publishing, she has built a career that also spans higher education, authorship, and literacy advocacy. She is now…
Ann Qureshi graduated with a MA Honours degree in Medieval History in 2000. She has worked in the financial sector, and is currently an IT Quality & Compliance Consultant at Novonesis, a Danish biotechnology company.
Rosemary Goring graduated with an MA in Economic and Social History in 1984. Rosemary spent three decades as a journalist, first at Scotland on Sunday and then at The Herald. She has also published six books, including…
Margaret Macdonald vividly remembers the excitement of studying in the young department of Mediaeval History in the 1960s… and explains why, after a career in school teaching, she decided to come back to do a PhD.…
Lynne Peabody graduated with a MA in Modern History in 2006. Working in the sustainability and social change sector for more than two decades, she currently leads the EY Foundation.
Amanda DeGiorgis graduated with a PhD in Medieval History in 2008. She is currently a classified reference librarian at the Los Alamos National Lab, where she works with records cataloguing the history of the Manhattan…
Seona Robertson graduated with a MA Honours degree in Mediaeval History in 1972. After post-graduate research in Florence and creating a film archive, Robertson has devoted her career to television in the UK and…
Elaine Fulton graduated with a MA in Modern History in 1997, an MLitt in 1998, and a PhD in History in 2003. She has spent more than two decades as an educator at the University of Birmingham. Elaine Fulton spent “an…
Elspeth King (1949-2025) graduated with a MA in Mediaeval History in 1971. Working at museums in Glasgow, Dunfermline, and Stirling, King was central to redefining the preservation of public heritage and social history…
Alex Walmsley graduated with a MA Honours degree in Modern History with International Relations in 1993, and then stayed to complete a PhD in Modern History in 1998. She has enjoyed a long career in the defence sector…