The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

FWIW I've also just added to my new website a short reflection on why us human editors are superior to AI.

If you or anyone you know is in need of editorial assistance, please get in touch.

Briony Neilson Briony Neilson Editorial and Manuscript Services – assisting writers and academic researchers through all stages of the writing and publishing process

I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

My first article, a close reading of newly enfranchised Aotearoa New Zealand women's apparent 'defection' from the Contagious Diseases Act repeal campaign 🗃️

doi.org/10.1080/0961...

My first article, a close reading of newly enfranchised Aotearoa New Zealand women's apparent 'defection' from the Contagious Diseases Act repeal campaign 🗃️

doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Creating the National/Border Security Nexus: Counter-Terrorist Operations and Monitoring Middle Eastern and North African Visitors to the UK in the 1970s–1980s This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terro...

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar?

Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece!

Here's mine...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It has arrived! The 200th volume in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series. A landmark study of the afterlives of Caribbean slavery in Australia. Come and help us celebrate while discussing imperialism, past, present & future?

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great idea Evan!

My pick is in honour of the writer Streten Božić/ Wongar who died in March, aged 94.

Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer: Australian Historical Studies: Vol 53, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022 Summary. The popular history of divorce in England and Wales centers on famous couples—predominantly royalty—whose marital discord played out through inter

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

front cover of townswoman journal from 1936 shows content and logo

Great news Townswoman 30s-50s digitised by @lselibrary.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/reel/DXEE4_3...
examples interwar womens activities and campaigning
@lsegender.bsky.social
@scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

‘Do-it-yourself biological control’: the unauthorised introduction of blackberry rust to Australia In 1983, an unknown person smuggled blackberry rust (Phragmidium violaceum) into Australia – one of the nation’s most significant biosecurity breaches of the last half-century. Yet unlike most othe...

My latest article: 'We don’t know who did it. We don’t know their gender, their ethnicity or their political beliefs... What we do know is that in the summer of 1983–84, a fungus called Phragmidium violaceum was introduced to Australia – deliberately, secretly and illegally.' Call it 'plant noir'!

a drawing of a large bird with colourful plumage – a king vulture – sitting on a perch

The extravagant plumage of a king vulture as drawn by Eleazar Albin, c.1734

they want you to use siri and ai so badly but i'm not really interested in that kind of thing

Working from home set up with rubber suffragette duck on desk, New Dawn colourful print on wall behind and a suffrage teatowel hanging over a monitor

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Remapping Black Women’s Health Activism Within and Beyond Australia’s International Women’s Year Considering the work of Black women activists compels us to remap our understandings of International Women’s Year and the subsequent United Nations (UN) Decade for Women. Drawing on a series of wo...

Happy to share that ‘Remapping Black Women’s Health Activism Within and Beyond Australia’s International Women’s Year’ has been published open-access. It contributes to the Special Issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year.

doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Hoy se ha publicado un artículo que escribí sobre asociaciones artísticas en el sufragismo británico. Espero que disfrutéis leyéndolo tanto como yo escribiéndolo. 🥰 www.upo.es/revistas/ind...

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

#ScholarSunday Thread 270 (4/5/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add ...

Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ +

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

b&w photo with a boy standing at left, holding a cat. They're looking at their image reflected in a mirror at right.

Andrei Tarkovsky, born on this day – 4 April – in the village of Zavrazhye in 1932 🗃️

Interesting-sounding PhD position in Bern: architectural history of the Swiss women's movement 1870-1930.

Congratulations Thomas!

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is supervising final-year undergraduate 'capstone' theses.

Here, @paigedonaghy.bsky.social and I present a selection of these from emerging historians of gender and sexuality @unimelb.edu.au 🗃️

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is supervising final-year undergraduate 'capstone' theses.

Here, @paigedonaghy.bsky.social and I present a selection of these from emerging historians of gender and sexuality @unimelb.edu.au 🗃️

Making Gender History: Research from Melbourne Undergraduates | Australian Women's History Network James Keating and Paige Donaghy present a selection of undergraduate research on the history of gender and sexuality from final-year history students at The University of Melbourne.

New from VIDA:

🎉 James Keating (@jameskeating.bsky.social) & Paige Donaghy (@paigedonaghy.bsky.social) introduce a blog showcasing seven UniMelb undergraduate history projects 🎉

Read it here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/making-...

#hist #histaus #gendhist #histsex #IWD2026 #undergrad
@unimelb.edu.au

Very excited to present this wonderful collection of student research with my colleague @jameskeating.bsky.social 💫

I used to work at a bookstore with an author and whenever anyone came in asking for a recommendation he’d just sell them his book which he said was pretty good but would never mention he wrote. You gotta respect the grift even if, in the moment, you sometimes wanted them to be hit by a bus.

Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

“The services under threat include access to legal assistance for people who have fled family and domestic violence, mediation services for separating couples, counselling, and contact services, used when a parent is only allowed supervised access to a child.”