Postgraduate community
Our postgraduate community is international, making the School the ideal environment for you to share ideas, collaborate on research, gain new perspectives and meet like-minded individuals.
We have a diverse and close-knit postgraduate community – you’ll always find someone to talk to about the topic you’re interested in and be supported to conduct your own conferences. You’ll become part of a research community with opportunities to attend a broad range of seminar series and public lectures beyond your programme of study.
Seminars
Edinburgh’s community of American historians supports a lively research culture with regular lectures, seminars and other special events. In recent years we have hosted conferences of the British Association of American Studies and the Scottish Association for the Study of America.
Regular American history events include the American history workshop for research-in-progress, the Edinburgh/Virginia videoseminar, and the Edinburgh/Glasgow reading group. There are also one-off lectures and seminars.
Societies
The History Society is a large and active group. It hosts internationally renowned lecturers, provides study advice and publishes the student-run award-winning journal Retrospect. Social events include film and quiz nights, themed pub crawls, trips to historical sites across Edinburgh and Scotland, a Winter Ball and even a football team, ‘You’re History FC’.
Outside the University, The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland holds regular lectures. Fellowship of the Society is open to anyone with an interest in history and archaeology; applications are considered in late November.