Painted Things Marion Lochhead I love painted things – Bright wooden toys and boxes, coloured beads, Shawls like a peacock's plumage, scarves like wings Of birds that flaunt and flutter: all that breeds Delight and thoughts fantastic. I love glass, Deep-tinted, amethystine, fire-red, gold, That throws dim, changing luminance as I pass, And shifts, deploys like tapestries unrolled – I love all these Gay fantasies; but more I love the grey Austere walls of cathedrals, the bare trees That stand unmoved, with light and wing away.

Marion Cleland Lochhead (1902–1985) was born #OTD, 19 April, in Wishaw. A founding member of @scottishpen.bsky.social, Lochhead was a versatile figure of the 20th-century Scottish literary scene.

👇“Painted Things”, by Marion Lochhead, from Painted Things & Other Poems (Gowans & Grey, 1929)
#poetry

WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Li…

WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Final CFP deadline is now 30 April.

Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse.  The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present

Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026.

Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026.

caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

Agnes Owens in the archives Explore the collections left behind by Agnes Owens, the "most unfairly neglected of all living Scottish authors."

Agnes Owens in the archives
23 April @natlibscot.bsky.social Edinburgh. Free

2026 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Agnes Owens. Discover how her archives are being used to reappraise her legacy & secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agnes-owen...

Just a quick reminder that a UHI Institute for Northern Studies and Perth Museum Public Series Seminar is approaching fast on 22nd April 2026.

tinyurl.com/5abzbc98

Grants – BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science

Deadline approaching! ⏰

10 days left to submit your essay for the BSHS Singer Prize 2026!

The prize recognises an outstanding submission based on original research in the history of science, technology, or medicine.

Open to postgraduate researchers and recent PhDs (within 5 years).

Learn more:

some very interesting articles in this issue - including on Gaelic women poets

As part of Out of the Margins, we’re hosting events at Alexandria Library celebrating Owens’ life and legacy. Workshops (7,14,21 May), 100th birthday (23 May) & exhibition (23 May–30 Sept). Join us! #agnesowens

There is still time to register!

Feminism, Fascism & the Future: Tracing the Global Anti-Gender Movement, with GPRG and Women in PIR

27 April, 11am, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Register: edin.ac/4tQwMFk

Black and white photo showing 5 women, 4 of whom are wearing nurses uniforms, sat at a table. The table has a teapot and cups laid out on it

Happy #NationalTeaDay! 🫖
Here's a wonderful photo of a tea party held on board the French hospital Ship, the Sphinx, as a thank you for nurses from the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WW1 #HistNursing

Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment.
In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online

📆28 Apr 2026
🕰️16:30 – 18:30
To register 👇

Artwork featuring a standing central female figure in long dress created in a stylised way with intersecting lines and colours

The work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1866-1933) of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt

A painting of Barbara Fairweather by Phoebe Barrow. An elderly Barbara sits on a chair looking towards the window in a bright, cosy room with a ginger cat on her lap.

On #WorldHeritageDay we’re celebrating women who help preserve Scotland’s heritage.

Barbara Fairweather understood heritage is all around us and in our communities. With friends, she founded the Glencoe Folk Museum to collect and share their stories

womenshistoryscotland.org/2024/06/13/r...

#throwbacktuesdays Today we’re casting our mind to the series of Wikipedia Workshops 🗣️ we ran in back 2023! In collaboration w/ multiple community partners 🤝

Really enjoyed reading (and contributing to review of) @amygraywrites.bsky.social Red Duchess - a biography of Katherine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, - Scotland's 1st female MP. So why haven't you heard her?

Why Scotland’s first female MP, the ‘Red Duchess’, must never be forgotten Conservative politician Kitty Atholl initially opposed women’s suffrage, but changed her mind based on her experiences of the First World War; supported the Spanish Republican government against the f...

Me in @scotsman.com today on what the Duchess of Atholl can teach us today (and some depressing constants for women in public life)

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Love this modern stained glass window in Woodside Library in Glasgow. Installed in 2024, it was created by Keira McLean working with members of Simy Community Development to highlight the lives of the Scottish suffragettes Helen Crawfurd and Jessie Soga.

#glasgow #stainedglass #woodsidelibrary

Image of a monument of two curved shape stacks of stones, pulled apart to reveal a view of the sea beyond. To the right of the image, on an orange background, white text reads Community, Resistance and Resilience: Celebrating 50 years of The Making of the Crofting Community, Thursday 11 and Friday 12 June 2026, The Social Club Dornoch, £20/£40. Logo for UHI Centre for History in the bottom right hand corner.

Orange background with white text reads: Speakers include Thursday 11 June Andrew Mackillop, Gemma Smith, Iain MacKinnon, Mairi McFadyen and Raghnaid Sandilands, Interview with Jim Hunter. Friday 12 June Ewen Cameron, Ailsa Raeburn, Domhall Uilleam Stiubhart, David Taylor, Col Gordon. Logo for UHI Centre for History in the bottom right corner.

We are excited to share details on some of the speakers who will be delivering papers at our June conference, Community, Resistance and Resilience: Celebrating 50 years of 'The Making of the Crofting Community'! Tickets are available to purchase on Eventbrite, uhihistory.short.gy/HKxw0T

Agnes Owens: Out of the Margins YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive

Delighted to share our new short film on Agnes Owens, marking her 2026 centenary, now live on AGA’s YouTube. Discover her life, work, and legacy—or watch it on a retro TV at the Lillie Art Gallery exhibition from today!

This clip from 'Island of the Big Cloth' (1971) shows traditional dyeing in the Highlands 🎨

At the beginning of the clip, you can see someone scraping crottle, a type of lichen, directly from rocks.

Get ready for another term of amazing seminars! As always, free! Just remember to sign up here: bit.ly/londonmedieval

#medievalsky #skystorians

#IAPH is running an Oral History workshop on 25 April 2026 from 10am - 1pm ** ONLINE ** Excellent training for #Qualitative researchers too. Subsidised for Members. Places limited - email info@irishhistorians.ie subject heading ‘Oral History Training’. #Speirgorm #Skystorians #OralHistory #Ireland

Archives & Special Collections Assistant (Graduate Trainee) @glasgow.ac.uk 🗃️🎓
3 posts full time, expected start date 3rd August 2026.
#JobFairy
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

Reminder to get those abstracts in this weekend for GMS, folks!!

🗣 Shoutout to the amazing @perthwomenonwikipedia ,who were highlighted in an article by the National on Tuesday, in which we also got a wee mention!

The work they’re doing to write women back into Perth’s mighty history – is incredible, essential and glorious. Congrats to Gill Ryan & all involved

Do you have a Ten Minute Talk idea to share with us? We're always looking for new stories of local history research!

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/news-promote...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Moral Panic in the Industrial Town: Teenage ‘Deviancy’ and Religious Crisis in Central Scotland c. 1968–9 Abstract. This article argues that Falkirk—a medium-sized industrial town in Central Scotland—became the scene of a localized, yet typical moral panic abou

My first journal article, Moral Panic in the Industrial Town, explores a very Scottish 1960s crisis. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

We were delighted to chat to @charlielynch.bsky.social about the Perth Women on Wikipedia project, collaborative history and the challenges of addressing the Wikipedia gender gap. Read all about it in today's @scotnational.bsky.social

Femicide: What historical sources reveal about the killing of women LMU professor Julia Burkhardt and an interdisciplinary team are studying femicide in the Middle Ages and early modern period.

www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...