"'The Scully Effect' was the name given to the impact of The X-Files protagonist’s Dana Scully on a generation of young women choosing to pursue careers in STEM." - @tchotchke.bsky.social
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We were very saddened to learn of the passing of Noriko Ishii, a brilliant scholar who was also integral to the organisation of our 2024 Tokyo conference. A tribute to Noriko is available on our website www.ifrwh.com #WomensHist #GenderHist
We have received some super submissions to the book prize 🤩The committee have extended the book prize to *27 March*, so there is now more time to send us your books! Please share #WomensHist #GenderHist
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A reminder that the call for submissions to the Ida Blom -Karen Offen book prize closes on February 28th! #WomensHist #GenderHist
Image of a burnt building in park land. Black and white, annotated.
#OTD 1913, suffragettes Lilian Lenton & Olive Wharry were arrested & charged with setting fire to the tea pavilion in Kew Gardens.
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Image: Bain Collection, Library of Congress
Next year will mark 40 years since the founding of IFRWH! If you attended one of our conferences or events and have photos, we'd love to receive them! Please share them with us: ifrwh1987@gmail.com
We aim to use the photos at future events & build our archive #HistWomen #WomensHist #GenderHist
Have you published a book on transnational women's or gender history between 2020 and 2025? Do submit to the IFRWH book prize. Closing date for submissions is end Feb. Full details on eligibility & how to apply below. Please share! 👇#GenderHist #WomensHist
Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25?
🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com
Closing date is 28 February 2026!
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Lovely to see so many abstracts winging in today for the @whaireland.bsky.social conference in Limerick in May 😍 cfp closes 30 January so keep em coming! #WomensHist #GenderHist sites.google.com/view/whai202...
This was a really fun conversation, and we’re so proud of this reader! Please listen, share, & of course pick up a copy of TNCR! #womenshist #histmed @nursingclio.bsky.social
Prof Victoria Wolcott was recently interviewed by the Infinite Women podcast to talk about the Civil Rights and peace activist, Eroseanna Robinson! You can hear the conversation here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #womenshist #ubuffalo
Our Newsletter editor & web officer is Prof Heidi Hannele Kurvinen (Uni of Bergen, Norway). She is a gender and media historian who has mostly focused on the post-war period in Finnish and Nordic history #WomensHist #GenderHist
Our Treasurer is Dr Shannon Devlin who is new to IFRWH this term @shannondevlin.bsky.social Shannon is a social & gender historian with a focus on sibling relationships, cousinhood & the family in C19th-20th Ireland #GenderHist #WomensHist
On Saturday night we voted in our next Executive Board (2025-30). Big welcome to our new members & welcome back to those continuing with us 😀 We also thank our outgoing board members for all their service #WomensHist #GenderHist
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Thrilled to be part of this special issue and to see my article, "I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers' now online #openaccess @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social #mentalhealth #womenshist
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I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
On my way to Dublin to take part in a book panel discussion on "Women, Struggle & Resilience". We're covering women's lives from c18th Ulster to c20th Dublin. It's almost sold out, last tickets here dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #WomensHist
Looking forward to participating in this brilliant discussion panel next month in Dublin about women, resilience and struggle in Ireland. See below for ticket info 👇 #WomensHist #GenderHist #Women #IrishHist
1937 trade union congress advice to nurses - be fair to yourself ! #histnursing #womenshist
![Poster with details of my upcoming talk for the Limerick History Festival. Talk is titled '“She never knew any man on earth except [him]: Paternity disputes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster.” My talk explores issues of paternity, pregnancy & sexual scandal. Thursday 25 September at People's Museum, No. 2 Pery Square, 7pm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vwyx4yl3xscyeedekfm4mrky/bafkreigvardemls3bidhbsc3q2a4nyy3ugnosa5uoi346t6j7fb3tzc4w4)
Poster with details of my upcoming talk for the Limerick History Festival. Talk is titled '“She never knew any man on earth except [him]: Paternity disputes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster.” My talk explores issues of paternity, pregnancy & sexual scandal. Thursday 25 September at People's Museum, No. 2 Pery Square, 7pm.
If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam
Need a holiday read? This edited collection showcases the research of our members, and is perfect for anyone with a passion for women's history. #womenshist #womensstudies
Registration is now open @womenshistscot.bsky.social Conference! 📢
Saturday 13 Sep 2025, in person, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
A day of fab #WomensHist
With @histnurse.bsky.social flying the flag with a lightning #HistNursing #WomeninRed #NursesInRed #Wikipedia talk
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More teachers. Postcard of members of the NUWT London Unit demonstrating for equal pay (1918) © UCL Institute of Education, Newsam Library and Archives
London Transport posters - Women who answered the call were initially paid five shillings fewer than their male predecessors received, so they went on strike – or, as one conductor called Florence Cordell put it, “we struck for three or four days on Willesden Green... It was more or less a knees-up”! Photos London Transport Museum © Transport for London
![Isabel Salt, 1876-1968. Isabel was the youngest child and only daughter of Titus Salt Junior (youngest son of Sir Titus Salt, the founder of the model village of Saltaire) and his wife Catherine Crossley from the famous carpet manufacturing family of Halifax.
Isabel and the First World War
Isabel made sure that the work which women were doing was kept in the public eye, and war or no war she continued to advocate equal pay. The Shipley Times and Express for 21 April 1915 carried an account of a speech, Woman’s work in war time, where Isabel ranges over the effect of war on social questions
"private interests must be sunk for the public good”. There must be a change in attitude to employment of women as drivers, interpreters, doctors, who did not get equal pay.
There must be “Equal pay with men for equal work"
This theme of opportunity for women in war is continued in various speeches:
The great lesson of the war was that they [women] must gain more control over their destinies.
(Shipley Times and Express, 9 Nov 1917)
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Isabel Salt, 1876-1968. Isabel was the youngest child and only daughter of Titus Salt Junior (youngest son of Sir Titus Salt, the founder of the model village of Saltaire) and his wife Catherine Crossley from the famous carpet manufacturing family of Halifax. Isabel and the First World War Isabel made sure that the work which women were doing was kept in the public eye, and war or no war she continued to advocate equal pay. The Shipley Times and Express for 21 April 1915 carried an account of a speech, Woman’s work in war time, where Isabel ranges over the effect of war on social questions "private interests must be sunk for the public good”. There must be a change in attitude to employment of women as drivers, interpreters, doctors, who did not get equal pay. There must be “Equal pay with men for equal work" This theme of opportunity for women in war is continued in various speeches: The great lesson of the war was that they [women] must gain more control over their destinies. (Shipley Times and Express, 9 Nov 1917) https://www.saltairecollection.org/portfolio-item/isabel-salt-1876-1968/
This is a brilliant archive https://dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/female-conductors-wages/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKlCFVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqDtiA1o0oOXGUREwzYUF7_6hw7YwWEiivGG3IlZVtYfDayoIOJJ7eD7CTlP_aem_Xu8vdEX2Yl-fAmJc0HMz2g
#OTD in 1970 the Equal Pay Act gained Royal Assent
It would take (and still taking) many years after #WW1 for women to finally achieve parity even though 100s of thousands of women proved how capable they were during the war
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Tomorrow #WHAI2025 kicks off! For those of you enjoying #Ireland's #AncientEast ahead of our program, or commuting from the 4 corners of the country, safe travels. We look forward to hearing your work and meeting you in person. #Research #History #Skystorians #AcademicSky #WomensHist #IrishStudies
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Great programme again this year!
I'm sharing some research from book 2 on migration & divorce. I'm also part of an ECR advice clinic on "Why researching womens experiences matter". Looking forward to visiting Carlow! #WomensHist #GenderHist
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#WHAI2025 REGISTRATION OPEN 👉 BOOK NOW 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnkuw4s 👇 Conf site QR Code 👇 Brilliant program made possible by our brilliant ⭐ #skystorians @whaireland.bsky.social #WomensHist #History #GenderHist #RevolutionaryHist #IrishResearch #Speirgorm #HealthHist #Carlow #Ireland
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One of my absolute FAVE things about #Ireland is how community comes together. Thanks to our local #Carlow #WHAI2025 sponsors #CCSP, Carlow Historical & Arch Soc, Carlow Co Co + Carlow #Tourism 4 their support 💜@whaireland.bsky.social #IrishResearch #Skystorians #WomensHist #RuralIreland #DaBest
