For all the people saying that the forthcoming same-sex relationship between two women in Bridgerton would occlude the infertility/struggling to have children narrative, please go & watch Season 2 of Gentleman Jack (Episode 8) where this topic is navigated sensitively, albeit somewhat inaccurately.
I use this clip every time I teach research methods: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgj...
Your regular reminder that right wing pundits and governments demean "Media Studies" as a worthy area of study because it directly teaches people to spot bullshit like this
📣 Call for Papers!
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
The second way you can get involved is by responding to our directive questions! These are inspired by questions asked by the National Lesbian and Gay survey in the 1990s and 2000s. Again, there's no set way to respond to these and you only have to respond to whatever you're interested in 🧵 (3/4)
If you get the opportunity to go see #LoveLetters at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy take it take it take it! The diversity of relationships represented in this exhibition is phenomenal and there really is something for everyone.
I am terrible at promoting my own stuff, but I was recently on a very cool podcast with absolute delights @krheyam.bsky.social and Ann of @vulgarhistory.bsky.social talking all things Anne Lister! It really does get rather vulgar...
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
For those lucky enough to be near London ⤵️
The irony that every time I taught as a PhD student, I was addressed as Dr and Prof, and now I have the PhD, I keep getting called Miss 🙄
I remember helping run a hp quiz at the bookshop I worked at yrs ago. Group of grown adults arrived late, demanding to be allowed to compete against the room of 9-year olds. They won by 1 point and were the worst winners, checking their quiz sheet bc they thought there should be a wider margin. 💀
#CFP for the Spring 2026 special issue of NCGS! Corresponding with the bicentenary of the Chatterton Massacre, this issue aims to examine connections between gender & martyrdom & how the lives & afterlives of women who engaged in industrial & political mobilisation in the 19thC have been recorded.
The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Are you referring to the one under 50-54 High Street, currently a Waterstones? If so, I believe the plaque on the outside of the building mentions it! The old framed sign referencing the chamber that used to be on display in the shop was, when I stopped working there in 2021, stored in a backroom.
Semi-regular reminder that if you want to understand and combat our current transphobic moment in the UK, then 'TERF Wars' from @notrightruth.bsky.social and many other incredible activists and academics is essential reading - and nearly all available for free: ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w...
I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!
Incredible work!! I am intrigued by the ability to toggle between a modern transcription and the semi-diplomatic version on the project website. This is something still being debated in Lister studies circles with regards to readability and access, and the option to simultaneously view both is fab.
Coachmen and bedbugs!
So grave! This might be one of my favourite comparisons, seeing their different perspectives so clearly and their later resolution. This also isn't the first time I have seen AL describe how frightened AW is by a situation and AW not mention it at all 😆 Is one exaggerating or the other hiding..?
Looking forward to attending! And I recognise that handwriting from somewhere...
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
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Phenomenal work! I was absolutely captivated listening and learning more about Byron's ancestral home and his antics whilst there!
ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT
@annelistersociety.bsky.social
I cannot express how excited I am for this!
Shout out to the unexpected fire alarm test that not only scared the wits out of me mid-interview with a research participant on video call but also made me give off pure Joyce Byers vibes as he couldn't hear the ringing bells on his end or see the flashing lights 😱
Alas, it'll be a wee bit too early for me in the CET zone, but excited for all those who get to hear Imogen Cook's research on Lister's venereal disease! I heard some of her analysis of this period of Lister's life at ALS '25 and its well worth tuning in for.
It's not extensive analysis, but I detail responses to the cancellation of Gentleman Jack in 2022 here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-cancella.... Also, the recent documentary Bulletproof: A Lesbian's Guide to Surviving the Plot (Latimer, 2024) also engages with this topic and might be of interest.
It's so funny Trump says Zohran Mamdani looks TERRIBLE because when I saw Mamdani at my bodega, before I realized who he was, I was like "What a handsome man in an impeccably tailored suit!" And I'm one of those lesbians who usually proceses men like the faceless WAH WAH adults in a Peanuts cartoon.