ITSH Mondays – Fall 2018
Welcome to the autumn term 2018. This year we will aim to make Mondays afternoons the time for a series of afternoon activities and occasional brown-bag lunches with our MLitt students. Everyone is very welcome to…
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Statistical nodes and circulations around 1800
Research Seminar Paper Adam Dunn (University of St Andrews) From words to numbers and maps. Transfers, networks and the transformations of statistical thinking in Britain and the German lands, c. 1750s-1840s This talk…
Fife Coastal Walk 2017
Transnational and Spatial History Masters students at St Andrews spend a day along the southern Fife coast.
Dropbox, Dinner, and Debate: Or, How to Produce an Edited Volume
Following on from the successful and highly-engaging exploratory workshop held in September 2016, this August saw the second meeting towards the production of a new ‘Routledge Guide to Using Historical Sources’ aiming…
Seminar: Legal Flows – Crimes against Humanity
On Monday 25 September 2017, we will be welcoming Dr Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg). Kerstin von Lingen will be giving a paper entitled “Legal Flows: Crimes against Humanity in Transnational Legal Thought, 1899-1945”.…
Reflections: Space and Place in the work of Yi-Fu Tuan
This posting is the first of three offering a reading of the work of the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan from a historian’s perspective. I hope to follow it with a series of similar postings on other scholars that may offer us…
A Museum, World War II, and Entangled Politics. A view from Gdańsk
Should state-funded museums focus on the past of one nation, or should they open up their exhibitions to incorporate history of an entire region or even the whole world? Should borders of nation states converge with…
Reflections: Beyond Thriller in Spatial History
The ‘spatial turn’ has come to history in waves, and since the term carries multiple meanings, it has sent historians off in a number of directions with a new, or renewed appreciation for space. With some exceptions,…
Student Reflections: Skills in Transnational History Module
This guest posting is by Katherine Bellamy, who completed the MLitt in Transnational, Global and Spatial History in 2016 with the dissertation “Ninnimissinouk Networks: The Endurance of Identity in a Transnational…
Student Reflections: Antonino Scalia
Antonino Scalia, who joined us from Sicily, completed the MLitt in Transnational, Global and Spatial History in 2016. His coursework included a study of the impact and reception of the Greek Colonels coup in Italian…