Today, the humanities – including subjects like Classics – are sometimes criticised for their apparently low employability prospects. Yet the career pathways of Classics graduates at the start of the twentieth century…
It is 1901, and you are going to university. What do you imagine you will study? Greek and Latin were the traditional basis of much education, or you might choose something like medicine, so you can work in a…
The life of Robert Craig (1882-1956), a Scottish geologist and academic, reflects both fundamental developments in the professional world of geology and the profound personal impacts of an undergraduate education from…
For Johan Gerard Ubbink, his year at University of St Andrews was more than a study abroad—it was a turning point that connected Dutch Reformed theology with wider international debates and set the stage for his later…
Minister Alexander Anderson, was celebrated as a hero by his community in Scotland when he was detained in Germany during the Great War… until he returned home and was labeled a traitor.
Helen Ross spent her adult life moving across the world as a minister’s wife, mother, teacher, and role model within her community. Like many women of her time, the work that defined her life was unpaid and largely…
Catherine Brown (1902-UC1-010) was born in 1883 on Market Street in St Andrews, to William Grant Methven Brown and Mary Brown. She was the eldest of ten children; her siblings were: Francis, Hannah, Charlotte, Agnes,…