Lynne Peabody, charity CEO
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.
Category: Beyond the University
Amanda DeGiorgis, librarian of the nuclear age
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, TV producer
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, professor & director of education
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, curator
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, charity trustee and defence consultant
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…
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…
The Challenges of Job-Hunting: Edith MacQueen in the 1930s
The career trajectory of Edith MacQueen – the first woman to obtain a PhD in History at the University of St. Andrews – poses a certain paradox: a woman of high academic standing, she possessed the right credentials…
Authors and Broadcasters in the early 20th century: Annie M’Killiam and Rhoda Power
For those of the first women History graduates who hoped to use their historical learning in a career of some sort, there were relatively few options in the early twentieth century. There were very few jobs for women…
Women Students’ Alumni Associations
One of the most fascinating findings from analysing the University Calendars of the 20th century was discovering the prevalence of women’s associations that existed for alumni of the University of St Andrews. In the…