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
The School has a diverse range of regular seminar series and many standalone events and there are many other Edinburgh-based societies and groups who also run related events such as Scottish history, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Modern conflict, Diaspora, Gender history, Economic and social history and American history.
Current postgraduate-led seminars in History include:
- The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop
- Eighteenth Century Research seminars
- Histories of Gender and Sexuality seminars
- Economic and Social History seminars
- Full list of School research seminar series
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.