Join us next Tuesday at 4pm GMT for the final session of our Spring Seminar Series. Dr Kellie Bradshaw will be presenting a paper on 'Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...
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I’ve just submitted my thesis! It took me until 23:33 to pluck up the courage to press the ‘submit’ button but it’s done! What a nuts feeling?!
Wow, it feels sad and surreal to hear them announce the death of Moya Brennan on the radio this morning, on the day I am submitting my thesis, given how much of this PhD was completed with Clannad playing in the background. Thank you for the music and the inspiration, Moya!
In case you missed it, we had an eventful Easter! 16 million of our records, including our massive collection of wills, are now available to search and view on Ancestry.com (and can be accessed for free onsite at the Borthwick).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word
Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon wrote on Twitter: Ceasefires are always good news. Especially if they lead to a just and lasting peace. But this momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What's needed now: diplomacy, international legality, and PEACE. Last edited 9:37 AM Apr 8, 2026
The Spain's Prime Minister and his official reaction to the #ceasefire this morning (translated from Spanish).
"The Government of #Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket."
6 days away from thesis submission and feeling surprisingly (and unnervingly) calm, which I attribute mostly to having great supervisors... but also to the fact I've found a cafe in town that primarily plays Dido and Travis which is the exact chill 90s/00s vibe this millennial baby needs to survive.
Join us on Tuesday, 7 April at 7pm for the penultimate session of the Spring Seminar Series. Our speaker, Dr Samuel Beckton, will be delivering a paper entitled 'A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016'. Sign-up below!
Join us on Tuesday, 24 March at 4pm UK time for our next online seminar. We will be hosting Dr Ellen Hope Durban who is going to discuss her research on 'Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s'. Read more and sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...
Join us next Tuesday, 10 March at 4pm GMT for our fascinating panel on 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' featuring papers from Dr Julita Oetojo, Dr Irina Malinina, and Dr Simona Valeriani and chaired by Dr Kate Smith. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/
Join us on Tuesday, 24 February to hear Dr Valerie Schutte kick off our Spring Seminar Series with a fascinating paper on 'Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves'. Please find the sign-up link via this page: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
We are thrilled to share the programme for our Spring Seminar Series. We do hope you will join us to hear from the fantastic speakers we have lined up. The sign-up links for each seminar will be shared on our website and here on BlueSky in the weeks leading up to each event.
Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
Thanks, Tom!
Super grateful to wonderful colleagues and constructive peer reviewers for their insightful comments on earlier versions of the article.
I'm really excited to share that my first article 'Becoming Imperial Agents: British Experiences of "Stop-Off" Locations Encountered en route to the Indian Subcontinent, 1757-1835" has been published just in time for Christmas. It is open access so have a read! #history muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Someone compared Elphaba’s sex cardigan to Grizabella’s outfit in CATS and now I can’t stop laughing.
Is progressing through academia just a process of accepting that endless emails will ruin and interrupt ever greater portions of your day?
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November at 4pm GMT to hear Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks discuss her fantastic monograph, 'Women and the Reformations', and how she came to write it. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Made it to Montréal with my family for NACBS. My toddler was wide awake and raring to go at 3am as his body clock is so out of whack, poor baby - thank God for the mountain of snacks I packed as breakfast doesn’t start until 7! This is definitely going to be an adventure 😂🫣
Woman with a toddler on her lap. The toddler is holding a laptop as if to start working.
Thrilled to introduce my manager. You would be forgiven for thinking I answer to my supervisors, but in actual fact my tiny manager calls all the shots and - as my supervisors will confirm - he is one tough task master! (Ft. my current wfh situation - a spare bed full of crap and a suitcase desk 🫣)
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
Unfortunately, due to speaker illness we have had to postpone our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event which was due to take place today. All who registered for the event have been contacted via email. Once a new date has been confirmed we will share the details here & on our website.
Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Oh sorry I’ve just seen you wanted non-fiction recommendations 🤦🏻♀️
You could try ‘The Bear and the Nightingale’ by Katherine Arden or ‘The Binding’ by Bridget Collins. I really enjoyed both!
