Join us next week for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women! Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Its day wan o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: richts

'Our public libraries are free in three critical senses. Firstly, they cost nothing to join and to use. Secondly, they are open to all in our communities. We must also add a third concept of freedom: the freedom to read – to engage, without restraint, a diversity of knowledge and opinion'.

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

New P&S mural celebrates the #SuffrageOak planted in 1918 to mark the passing of the Representation of the People Act which gave some women the right to Vote. It's less than a block from the new #treeoftheyear! 🌳#ArgyleStAsh #yardworksglasgow

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members. Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]

1 of the few statues in Scotland dedicated to a named woman is of Dolores Ibarruri, the Passionara who said 'Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees.' It is dedicated to the memory of Scots who fought the fascists in Spain & is on the riverfront in Glasgow. /7

Today is #Michaelmas, and legend has it that the devil will spit and urinate on any #blackberries still on bushes. So think twice before you tuck in after today!😈 It might just be a coincidence that the berries tend to be past their best by this time of year anyway.😜

In Perth last week, I went to the museum @perthmuseum.bsky.social to say hello to my favourite smiley Pictish stone. It features four faces and was found near Abernethy. #ReliefWednesday

Then and Now: Re-membering Scottish BME Works and Lives // An exhibition celebrating the culture, heritage, and contributions of BME communities in Scotland - reclaiming narratives and shining a light on stories that shape our society. Part of @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

Buy your tickets now for 'Herland' @womenslibrary.bsky.social - all welcome womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...

Perth is being targeted for the next 4 Saturdays by racist protests outside hotels. Join Perth Against Racism to say no to racism in our community - meet today 10-10.30 at Station Hotel #PerthScotland #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

Essential reading for genealogists, whether you have Scottish ancestry or not… scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...

​Help us turn £10,000 into £2,000,000! ​We're raising funds for a 2-year project to showcase the 1,500-year-old Govan Old graveyard. ​Hitting our £10k goal unlocks over £2M in pledged funding for our building's future. Your donation has a massive impact. ​ tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

More about the timber hutments in Scotland after WW1 - a temporary housing solution used in a number of towns and cities. #housing #LocalHistory #Scotland 📚🗃️ 2/2 thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...

Teachers in Perth and Kinross - get on this!

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

#OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1913, women in South Africa 's Orange Free State protest the pass laws that forced women of colour to carry papers in order to travel for work. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...

Editing #Wikipedia is not just all about creating new articles. There's lots other other ways you can contribute and @hildabast.bsky.social shows you how.

🚨GOOD NeWs(letter) ALeRT!!🚨 YAS that’s right—We’ve SO MUCH good news we can’t fit it all into socials posts! Next one coming sOON! 🗞💌 Have YOU signed up yet? 👉🏾Sign up for events, online talks, cheeky discounts & treasures from our archive. 👇👇👇 protestsandsuffragettes.com#contact 🙏pls Share :)

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has published new tutorial videos focusing on searching BBIH and using BBIH to research the histories of race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, emotions, social class, and health.

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

The recent protests outside asylum hotels claim to ‘protect women and girls’. But they are not about women's safety at all.

To address the under-representation of female polymaths on Wikipedia today, Wikimedia UK is proud to partner with the The DaVinci Network on an edit-a-thon where participants will learn how to edit on #Wikipedia & expand information on female polymaths. Register here: tinyurl.com/h8y48v86

🔴 Could this be the face of an ordinary Pict? Aberdeen University student makes 'special' Fife discovery www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...

On leaving you playfully punched my left shoulder. The sensation remains But your voice fades The sensation remains But your image fades I short of breath tremble I think you’ve cracked a rib. —“Gone but Not Forgotten”, by Maud Sulter (1960–2008) born #OTD, 19 Sep – a 🎂 🧵 #poem #poetry 1/9

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

5 new stories uploaded today www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/five-mo... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory

“The Equality Act is meant to be a shield rather than a sword. It’s not meant to attack people and get rid of their rights.” The EHRC’s draft guidance needs to be made public. #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/19/e...

‘Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".’ FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Learn about the 'History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh' with this walking tour. The tour can be accessed through the Witches website and the Curious Edinburgh app. #OER #History #Scotland #VisitEdinburgh #Witchcraft open.ed.ac.uk/history-of-w...

Not all art hangs in museums. Across 1 trillion web pages it lives in sketches, fan sites, & web design. The Wayback Machine keeps this digital gallery open for all to enjoy. 🎨🧑‍🎨 📝 Tell us what irreplaceable works the Wayback Machine saved for you! ⤵️ forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T

I've just interviewed amazing historians for a podcast for History Workshop Journal's 100th issue, on doing history in turbulent times. It's made me more sure than ever that history is one of the most powerful tools for understanding & changing the world. Coming Jan 2026 on @historyworkshop.org.uk .

George Pendergast, known as "G3," turned 100 and still edits Wikipedia daily. Since starting in his 80s, he has created and improved articles on WWII and overlooked women’s histories. His work shows that contribution has no age limit. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FJi5

Suffragette window, Woodside Library, Glasgow #StainedGlassSunday

Stephanie "Steve" Shirley German-born UK info tech pioneer. 1939 Kindertransport refugee. 1950s built/coded computers@ Dollis Hill Research Sta'n. 1959 founded software co Freelance Programmers reaction against workplace sexism. Empl'd mostly women b #OTD 16 Sep 1933 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_S...

If you haven’t voted for #BetwixtTheSheets for the Listener’s Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards, for God sake do it now!! It’s the last day you can vote & we’re in the top 6. Me nerves are hanging out. I’ll be swigging gin & Valium until all this is over www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

Hello Bluesky! We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities. Find out more about our history and our work here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Scottish international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland has announced this year’s winners of the McIlvanney Prize and the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 👇 #BookSky

🌈✨ Call for Speakers! ✨🌈 Queering Wikipedia 2025 is happening online October 24–25 — and the program is open! Allies and LGBTQ+ community members are invited to share tools, insights, experiences, or new ideas that connect to the queer Wikimedia community. 👉 w.wiki/FKBQ #QW2025 #LGBTQ #Wikipedia

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

Wanted a husband who doesn’t suppose, That all earthly employments one feminine knows— That she’ll scrub, do the cleaning, and cooking, and baking, And plain needlework, hats and caps, and dressmaking… —Marion Bernstein, “Wanted A Husband” #C19th #poetry 2/2

“Marion Bernstein has a good claim to being the greatest Scottish feminist we’ve never heard of” 🎂 Happy birthday Marion Bernstein (1846–1906), born #OTD, 16 Sept. Discover her life & work in A SONG OF GLASGOW TOWN (ASL, 2013) #C19th #WomenWriters #poetry 1/2 asls.org.uk/publications...

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.

Today in Dundee, not 100 yards from where she last stood… On this day in 1911, my great-grandmother Mary Petrie Smith left the Wellgate for Canada. 113 years later, her story returned as Left at The Wellgate at Dundee Central Library. Read more: www.jank.ca/press-leftat...