Jane Worrell, civil servant
Jane Worrell graduated with an MA in Modern and Medieval History in 1975. Working as a civil servant for over three decades, she was at the centre of creating inclusive workplaces and helping organisations get the best…
Tag: Medieval
Alison Baverstock, publisher, author, and founder of the charity Reading Force
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, IT Quality & Compliance Consultant
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.
Margaret Macdonald, MA 1966, PhD 2023
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.…
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…
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…
Julia Smith
Julia Smith first came to St Andrews as a temporary lecturer in 1982-83, and returned as Reader in Mediaeval History in 1995 to 2005. She has also held posts at Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow and Oxford, as well as in…
Vanessa Harding
Vanessa Harding knew nothing about St Andrews until she arrived on the sleeper at the start of term in autumn 1970. ‘It looked like a nice place to be, and I knew people who were there. It’s the kind of decision you…
Ann Kettle
Ann Kettle lectured in the Department of Mediaeval History at St Andrews for more than forty years. In addition to her teaching and research, she held various administrative posts in the university. Beyond St Andrews,…
Sue Hill remembers medieval history… with cucumber sandwiches
In the 1970s it was a truth universally acknowledged that most people from Dumfries Academy – my secondary school – went on to Glasgow University to study. I might very well have done the same (writes Sue Hill, MA…