Roots and Branches explores the interface between theory and practice in the History of Ideas. Combining insights into the latest publications, ongoing research and the newest developments in the field with case studies of how practicioners resort to history to create societal change, the podcast explores the many ways in which the History of Ideas affects our world today.

The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today―and the courageous counter-voices.

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 István Hont Book Prize has been awarded to Eva Piirimäe for Herder and Enlightenment Politics (CUP).

Robin Mills speaks with Elad Carmel about his new book Anticlerical Legacies - The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

In this episode, Seungeun Lee speaks with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his new book The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princeton, 2024).

The first M. A. Stewart Workshop in Scottish Intellectual History.
In honour of Knud Haakonssen.
24-25 October 2024.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Mark Garnett discusses how so often what the Conservative Party’s ideology is taken being the same thing as conservative political thought. But for most of its history, the Conservative Party has been anything other than conservative.

In this episode of Zeitgeist und Geschichte, we interview Professor Peter Gordon about his new book A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (CUP, 2023).

Join us on this St. Andrews podcast as we interview academics and researchers of German Intellectual History with an eye to reflecting on the integral influence German thinkers have had on our intellectual landscape.

The workshop will take place 25th - 27th June 2025 at St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK.

Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words): 1st November 2024.

Richard Whatmore speaks with Aurelian Craiutu about his new book Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (CUP, 2023).

Martin Daunton speaks with Richard Whatmore about Adam Smith, David Hume and the End of Enlightenment

The Institute of Intellectual History is pleased to announce a call for papers dedicated to the 20th publication anniversary of Professor Eric Nelson’s book The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (CUP, 2004), which will take place at the University of St Andrews in mid-February 2025.

“‘Normal for Norfolk’: Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest”

13, 14 & 16 May 2024.

Old Class Library, St Andrews.

Intellectual History in a Thousand Manuscripts

Item no. 24: A letter to Isaiah Berlin from 1955.

The History of Scottish Philosophy wi’ Muckle Gaps is back! Listen to new episodes here.

On 9 March, colleagues and friends of J. G. A. Pocock gathered in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential historians of the 20th century.

Deadline: 28 March 2024.

Saturday 9 March.
Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

Read the programme here.

This project seeks to advance philosophy in business ethics by drawing upon the history of moral, political, or legal thought.

Deadline: March 15th 2024.