Books of the year: Colm Toibin: Long Island; Niamh Mulvey: The Amendments; Megan Hunter: Days of Light; Alba de Cespedes: Forbidden Notebook; Yael van der Woudon: The Safekeep; Virginia Evans: The Correspondent; Katherine Rundell: The Impossible King; Sarah Perry: Death of an Ordinary Man

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 17 minutes if you want to hear about the fiftieth anniversary of the sex discrimination act (there are lots of interesting items today including excellent women in tribute bands)

You can visit the exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum and Archive until next summer www.brucecastle.org/whats-on/cur...

It’s the partnership you didn’t know you needed - me and Ray Winstone, 3pm radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social

Started reading new Elly Griffiths book and one of the main characters is a nineteenth century historian at QMUL and yet it is terrrrrrrrrrrible this is no Ruth Galloway @cadebellaigue.bsky.social

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

What do people do with open access article licensing in the era of AI? I usually pick CC BY NC ND but this now allows for ‘text and data mining or your works’ which I don’t want. Is this… too bad for me? Or are there alternatives I should choose?

Closing this week - but if you are worried about books not arriving on time, just email me!

Chris Woakes sees Lucy Bronze and raises her….

Unexpected consequence of euros is that Lucy Bronze is now my internal comparator. If I think ‘I can’t be bothered to go for a run’ she pops up in my brain to say ‘I played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia’. ‘I can’t be bothered to do that bit of work’.’WHOLE TOURNAMENT. FRACTURED TIBIA.’

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

2 year teaching role in c20 British history www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/teachi...

There is just under a month to enter for the women’s history network’s best first book prize, for a first academic monograph, in women’s or gender history @womenshistnet.bsky.social womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Every time I go to the gym I think … why did no one spot this issue

Closing date today my friends

This free exhibition is on at Bruce Castle in Haringey for the next year - if you plan to come I would love to say hello and see what you think

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

another job going on my Joyce Butler project - year long 0.6 role for an archivist. jobs.haringey.gov.uk/jobs/project...

Have two pretty good seated #stereophonics tickets for Friday night in Cardiff I can’t use - would take offers - any interest? @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

Anyone here never cried at work?

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... first book prize for books in women’s or gender history published in 2023 or 2024 now open

Is it any wonder you can’t trust AI when basic spell check does things like this

Liverpool whatever and did you think Manchester United’s come back the other week, well, Lisbon here we come www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I have a job open for an outreach and engement officer on my Joyce Butler project. Looking for someone with creativity and organisation to plan and run events. Part time for 18 months so might also suit a part time student. Delighted to discuss it informally. history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/outrea...

I have a job open for an outreach and engement officer on my Joyce Butler project. Looking for someone with creativity and organisation to plan and run events. Part time for 18 months so might also suit a part time student. Delighted to discuss it informally. history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/outrea...

Doing a new kind of history where I talk to people. Aiming to learn more about women’s experiences of work in North London since the 1960s. If you are, or know, a woman over 65 from this part of the world, then please get in touch!

Admittedly this is extremely niche but I really want to write a paper about the disproportionate number of Labour women MPs who have red hair. It’s like it’s a prerequisite or something. Or maybe selection committees saw red hair and thought it would compensate for otherwise inconvenient womanhood.

the consequences of closing a major centre for nursing education alone are 😱😱😱😱😱

So many thoughts about Frankie’s failed attempt to weaponise ‘as a mother’ ….

✨Pat Thane: Reflections on history, policy and action 📖Read our latest blog about the recent workshop celebrating Pat Thane's ground-breaking historical work 👉https://socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange/pat-thane-reflections-on-history-policy-and-action/

Dr Lyndsey Jenkins (@teadevotee.bsky.social) (pictured left), Mansfield's History Fellow (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) has won a £215k AHRC grant for her project on Joyce Butler (pictured right) and women’s rights in the 1950s-70s. 🎉 Find out more here: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many thanks to colleagues @qmcbs.bsky.social who were so helpful and supportive in helping write this bid (Sarah Saines is a wizard)

This is my Joyce Butler 5 point plan: 1) did you know Joyce Butler or her husband Vic Butler? 2) were you involved in Labour politics (Haringey, London, National) before 1980? 3) do you know any community groups who would have an interest in the project or would like a talk?

Very excited to be working with excellent colleagues at Bruce Castle - we are going to do lots of brilliant stuff with the local community and schools

I’m actually the one on the left 🤣 but this is otherwise true good news!

Just two days until the deadline for submissions. Lots coming through. We hope to accommodate as many papers and panels as possible: projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/

Thanks to @qmcbs.bsky.social @mileendinstitute.bsky.social for hosting us - esp Tom Chidwick and @colmpm.bsky.social

And even though this list of contributors is already very long - loads of other people doing great work came to or spoke at the workshop - excellent women every one

This really was brilliant to work on with @lottelydia.bsky.social and so many other excellent women taking a different approach to the history of the Labour Party and the left

The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and commentaries to Transactions. Articles by historians at all career stages within & beyond Higher Education are invited. Further details bit.ly/46VjOM4 All accepted articles published Open Access to ensure the widest readership 2/2

'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' #Skystorians 1/2

10/10 for a real pain, it’s hilarious and beautiful, strong recommend

Going to see midsummer nights dream tonight, my family have offered me £10 if I stand up and shout ‘my name is, my name is, my name is’; £20 if anyone around me responds ‘Charles the Second’ and £100 if Matthew Baynton then completes the song.

I’m naive enough to be surprised that Lisa Nandy is against the boycott of the match against Afghanistan. Isn’t this like the least, the absolute least, that could be done? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

My daughter was using chatGPT to ‘write a diss track about my maths teacher’ last night, so I also have my doubts

Best fiction I read this year: Alison Espace, The Wedding People; Sally Rooney, intermezzo; Holly Gramazio, The Husbands; Kiley Reid, Come and Get It; Lauren Elkin, Scaffolding; Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters; Annie Ernaux, The Years

Beyond the Fragments: @racheljcollett.bsky.social and @alfiesteer.bsky.social report on their conference looking back at the socialist-feminist text and its influence. sslh.org.uk/2024/12/28/b...