University of St Andrews

At first she could not afford the money, or later the time; then she forgot about it. After more than thirty years St Andrews wrote to challenge her claim to have been educated there; they...

Fay Birkinshaw (later FW ), on her eighteenth birthday, left London to enter St Andrews University , St Andrews, on a scholarship, to study economics and psychology.

Fay Birkinshaw (later FW ) left St Andrews University having qualified for her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in economics and psychology; she did not actually collect her degree for some years.

FW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of St Andrews , only one year after she had finally collected the undergraduate degree she had earned years before from the same institution.

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children. They have generated income for many others besides JKR . Firms awarded the contracts for Harry Potter merchandise include Marks and Spencer for...

Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...

Willa Anderson (later WM ) began working in the Classics Department at St Andrews University , where she served as an assistant in Latin.

At twenty years old, Willa Anderson (later WM ) met her first love, Cecil Wilmot Morrison , a medical student at St Andrews University and a star university rugby player. Their engagement, made in the...

While at St Andrews University , WM was frustrated and annoyed by gender stereotyping: The theory of female inferiority did not square with the actual strength and courage of women, and probably never had done...

As a student at St Andrews University , WM spent two years on the editorial committee for the student journal College Echoes.