Margaret Lambert (1906-1995)
Dr Margaret Lambert (1906-1995) was appointed as Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews in 1956. She was the first woman historian at St Andrews to have been hired directly as a lecturer,…
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Ruth Macrides (1949-2019)
The esteemed Byzantine historian Dr Ruth Macrides spent around twenty years in a series of temporary teaching roles in the Department of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, teaching a wide range of…
Elizabeth Hewat, missionary and scholar
Elizabeth Glendinning Kirkwood Hewat (1895-1968) was employed as Assistant Lecturer in History in 1919-20. She went on to be a noted missionary and scholar, and a campaigner for women’s ordination in the Church of…
Elizabeth Peddie Steele Hutton MA (1866-1917)
While wandering along the West Sands or over the Links at the turn of the twentieth century, a walker may have come across a student of history and, latterly, divinity gazing out towards the St Andrews skyline. This…