Women’s Liberation: Gender Inequality from Suffrage to Austerity Pat Thane There is serious gender inequality in contemporary Britain and much protest against it: inequality between female and male pay and employment opportunities; sexual harassment of women and…

📣New book alert!

Read more about Pat Thane's new book, 'Women’s Liberation: Gender Inequality from Suffrage to Austerity'

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Radical Object: Potato Planter at Frating Hall Farm How did Russian anarchism, Teesside socialism and Jewish phenomenology find a home in rural Essex? Ken Worpole delves into the fragile archive of an influential pacifist settlement at Frating Hall farm.

OTD in 1943, a pacifist settlement was founded on Frating Hill Farm.

In this piece from the archives, Ken Worpole examines the lives of those who contributed to the project - including the future cabinet minister Shirley Williams.

Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’ with Dr Ellen Hope Durban We are thrilled to welcome Dr Ellen Hope Durban on Tuesday, 24 March 2026 at 4pm UK time to talk about ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’. Married …

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-...

Taking Photos of the First Women's Liberation Conference What was it like to take photos at Britain's first Women's Liberation conference? Chandan Fraser shares her memories and pictures with us.

OTD in 1970, the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in Oxford. A watershed in the British feminist movement, attendees discussed equal pay, 24-hour childcare and free contraception.

In this piece from the archive, Chandan Fraser shares her memories of the event.

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.

Thank you @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social for an amazing two days exploring the politics of motherhood! So many interesting papers and connections between them, left me with lots to think about.

Thank you so much to the wonderful organisers of @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk a bit about activism and mothering in modern Britain during my keynote today! Such a superb range of papers coming up too!

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One week left to sign up for our conference!

We will be emailing everyone who has registered early next week with all the details and the Zoom link 📩

Not long to go now until our conference, which kicks off at 9am on Thurs 5 February. We'll send out the links to all registered a few days before - please make sure you've signed up by 12pm on Mon 2 Feb to be included in our mailing list! The form is in the link below⬇️

Cover image of Douglas A Boyd’s new book, Oral History: A Very Short Introduction

Very excited this wonderful new #oralhistory book has arrived. Congratulations @dougboyd.bsky.social . This is both a great read if you’re new to oral history but also filled with thought-provoking & innovative material if you’re an advanced practitioner. Highly recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

John Berger, one of Europe’s most influential post-war writers and intellectuals, was born 100 years ago on 5 November 1926 in Stoke Newington, and happily the subject of many planned commemorative events in the UK and across Europe this year.

Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.

I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.

I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.

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Very much looking forward to attending and presenting at this exciting conference - have a look and register if you’d like to come!

thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...

Do join us in person or online this Tuesday! There’s still time to register for this free event 👇

The History of Food as an Act of Resistance A guest post by London Historians Member Esther Freeman Over the past year, with a grant from the National Heritage Lottery Fund, I’ve been researching how women have used food for social justice. …

My piece for London Historians on our latest project - Kitchen Resistance - is out now. Exploring how different waves of migrants to the capital have used food to provide a sense of safety and community during even the most challenging times.

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SHS Annual Conference 2026 Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨

📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!

We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.

📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
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Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! The Institute of Historical Research’s History Lab is excited to announce the call for papers for the Olivette Otele Prize for the 2025/26 academic year. The prize offers the chance for fast-tracked publication of an article and a cash prize of £250 and is open to Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines, exploring any place or period.

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words for a 40 minute paper by Friday 28th November 2025 to ihrhistorylab@gmail.com. Timeline: Abstract deadline of no more than 400 words due by 28th November 2025 Shortlisted scholars will be notified by Friday 19th December 2025 and asked to submit a full paper of no more than 8000 words by Friday 27th February The winner will be announced by the end of March 2026

Prize and Recognition The winner will receive a £250 cash prize, will be invited to speak at History Lab’s annual conference in summer 2026, and to submit their paper to Historical Research, the leading generalist historical journal and flagship publication of the Institute of Historical Research. Shortlisted scholars will receive a £30 book voucher and the opportunity to present their research at a History Lab seminar.

About the Prize The Olivette Otele Prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report’ which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history. The prize was named after the UK’s first Black woman history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research. We look forward to reading your applications!

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26!

Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions!

📆Key dates:

- Abstracts due on 28th November
- Notifications on 19th December
- 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb

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Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

October is #BlackHistoryMonth.

In its honour, here are a few pieces that explore the histories of Black people and the practice of Black history, selected from HW’s archive:

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"Original features have been reinstated, including floorboards, an ornate ceiling rose, cornicing, and a Victorian fireplace This exceptional four-bedroom house can be found on Talma Road, a residential street lined with Victorian townhouses near Brixton Station. The house, which has a large private garden, has been extensively remodelled and extended; the volume-enhancing design places a strong emphasis on light and the footprint of the house now extends to just over 1,500 sq ft internally The Building During the 1970s, the house was home - for a time - to activist Olive Morris, a prominent community leader in feminist, Black nationalist, and squatter's rights campaigns. Talma Road was one of several Brixton residences she occupied during her activism, and her legacy is now formally recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on the façade, a quiet but powerful marker of the building's place in local and political history. The Tour The honse nrecente a emart farade to the ctreet with ite delirate icing and nitched hav windou The

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Olive Morris's former squat and centre for the Brixton Ad-Hoc Committee against Police Repression.
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Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Very excited to have my first sound installation open at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social as part of @sensoriafestival.bsky.social 🚆💥

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Students 👋

Save the date.

Our annual student discount night returns, 21st October, 7-9pm. 🤝

Really enjoyed recording this with the @historyworkshop.org.uk podcast about the podcast we made about the Islington Nursery Strike, released on the Childcare Voices podcast

Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time.

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