Wardens as Historians
Women’s colleges and residences provided important job opportunities for early women academics. Unlike Cambridge, Oxford or London, St Andrews did not establish women-only colleges, but it did have women-only…
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Past History Papers: 1980s and 1990s
As we explore past exam papers throughout the twentieth century, it is clear they have been getting more and more similar to the examinations that history students at St Andrews sit today. The papers from 1905 were…
Past History Papers: 1970s
Once we reach the 1970s, we finally start to see more diversity in what was being taught and examined in History at St Andrews. The examinations are still being split into general papers on historical period, but we…
Past History Papers: 1950s
Past exam papers allow us to piece together information about how History at the University of St Andrews was conceptualised and taught to students, and how that differs from different decades throughout the twentieth…
Past History Papers: 1905
Looking at past papers can offer a great deal of insight into the ways that History was taught, studied and examined in the early years of the twentieth century, when history at the University of St Andrews was still a…
The Style and Format of Past History Exams
When I began looking at University of St Andrews History examination papers from the twentieth century, I was surprised by how similar they were to the examinations that history students at the university sit today in…
The History degree vs other degrees: statistics 1900-1935
The University of St Andrews ‘Calendars’, published annually, contained lists of graduating students, with their names and degree subjects. We can use this data to investigate how many people, men and women, graduated…
The joint History-English degree
St Andrews is now well known for offering a variety of joint honour degree courses, but this has not always been the case. In the early twentieth century, students taking an Honours MA (and not all did) took Honours in…
History in the early twentieth century: from one department to two
At the start of the twentieth century, the subject of ‘Modern History’ was taught at St Andrews by just one member of staff, a lecturer (although there was separate provision for ‘ancient history’ in the department of…
Day in the Life of a Woman Historian: 1960s
What was it like to be a woman student of History at St Andrews in the 1960s? Taking inspiration from popular modern day ‘Day in the Life’ blog posts and YouTube videos, a group of current undergraduates explored…