Aileen FyfeMar 22, 2024

Dr Edith Johnston's international academic career took her from school in #Belfast to MA PhD
#UnivofStAndrews to jobs at Sheffield #UniSheffield and #MacquarieUniversity
(and visiting fellowships in N America), then back to Ireland

Read more at https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/07/24/edith-johnston-phd-1956/

She was the first St Andrews woman PhD historian (that we know of) to successfully pursue an academic career - and so we celebrate her this #WomensHistoryMonth #histodons

Edith Johnston PhD (1930-2008)

Edith Mary Johnston, MA 1951 PhD 1956 (later, Mrs Liik) Edith Johnston-Liik (from Shirley Kelly, “‘Researchers Couldn’t Be Sure of a Job over a Year’—Edith Johnston-Liik on a Half-Century Pro…

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