Cat Burns in the #CelebrityTraitorsUK is all of us getting through 2025.

🚨🚨CFP klaxon🚨🚨 International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!

Giving this archive iced coffee a 💯

Did you send me a bottle of gin? One arrived for me at work and I don’t know who to thank for it! If it was you THANK YOU!

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

How do images in newspapers shape our understanding of #femicide? Jane Freeland, Alice Baroni & Melissa Jogie compare UK & Italian media to show how visual framing reinforces national narratives of domestic violence and gender inequality. #OnlineFirst

New publication alert🚨 I took some time out of my discipline to reflect on the contemporary relevance of my work. Along with the brilliant Alice Baroni, and Melissa Jogie we wrote about the visualization of femicide in the UK and Italy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Getting ready for the Goethe.Kultur.Lauf in Weimar

Ending Friday with an article acceptance and an iced coffee

I edit book reviews for Gender & History (post-1800). Please get in touch with your monographs/volumes. It does not need to be in English!

So excited about #JobOffer for a #PhD!!! We're looking for a candidate to work on "Power, gender and participation in the global history of the social work profession". MA in #History, Social Work, Educational Sciences or #GenderStudies. Deadline is 1 May: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329432

Juhu! Wir suchen eine*n #PhD für eine Arbeit über „Macht, Geschlecht und Partizipation in der globalen Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit“. MA in #Geschichte, Sozialarbeit, Erziehungswissenschaften oder #GenderStudies. Bewerbungsfrist ist 1. Mai: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329432

Nothing is more frustrating than watching a 1970s tv panel of male doctors discussing the dangers of abortion while they all sit around smoking cigarettes

Can any French speakers explain the difference in use between “avortement” and “termination volontaire de grossesse”? Why does it seem like anti-abortion folks prefer avortement? Maybe @maudannebracke.bsky.social knows?

Love seeing these posters for #IWD2025 on student life at the EUI! Don’t love how similar they are to the experiences of women students in the 60s & 70s

Not a bad place for archival research

Thinking about feminist curatorial and artistic practices before heading into a feminist dance performance researchers @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social

Tomorrow I’ll be having a conversation with some brilliant feminist researchers @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social / @ghilondon.bsky.social. The event also includes films & performances from feminist artists and activists. Sign up here👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminist-b...

Can anyone recommend work on women’s education in the old FRG? I am drawing a blank

Closest we’ve ever come to finishing the Globe & Mail Christmas crossword. Only 5 missing answers!!

If you have entered 2025 keen for some new German history, please join us tomorrow night!

Join us for a virtual new books roundtable on 9 Jan at 12pm EST! Featuring @jecfree.bsky.social, @michellelkahn.bsky.social, and Nadja Klopprogge in conversation with Maria Alexopoulou. Register here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to co-hosting this virtual roundtable, organized with @npapadogian.bsky.social, on three fabulous books by @jecfree.bsky.social, @michellelkahn.bsky.social, and Nadja Klopprogge, and moderated by Maria Alexopoulou. Jan 9 @ 12pm EST. To register: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Brilliant friends presenting their monographs and discussing their research all together? HOW can I miss this? You shouldn't as well! Thank you @npapadogian.bsky.social for organizing this! @michellelkahn.bsky.social / @jecfree.bsky.social and Nadja are going to rock this boat.

Nothing better than assigning a colleague’s excellent work! This week my MA students are reading @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social article on the transnational history of RU-486

The feeling of exhaustion and relief that comes with sending off a 14,000 word piece (This is what happens when you try and summarize 180 years of history)

Tonight! 📢 #GHIL Director Christina von Hodenberg will discuss her new book 'The Other '68 A Social History of West Germany's Revolt' with Jane Freeland (@jecfree.bsky.social QMUL), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) and Sylvia Walby (RHUL). Only a few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Today's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and it's the perfect day to announce the second event in the Gender Forum series with the brilliant @jecfree.bsky.social and Isadora Cruxên. Join us if you can!

Preparing my comments for the SOLD OUT launch of The Other ‘68: A Social History of West Germany’s Revolt www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

This week at a seminar organised by @delfinietois.bsky.social and @jecfree.bsky.social the label of "medieval" also came up, in this case to problematise how we negatively assign it to reproductive healthcare practices of today, that don't seem to fit the script of what women did back then AT ALL.

Inspired by #GBBO I attempted a lemon meringue pie yesterday. Quite pleased with how it turned out

Getting ready for the launch of our Gender Forums tomorrow. An interdisciplinary dialogue on women, gender and sexuality across time periods put together by the excellent @jecfree.bsky.social and myself. Join if you can! @qmul.bsky.social #QMUL_IHSS

Wow. Hello new followers! I’m a historian of feminisms in modern Germany and Europe, and my book on domestic violence activism is available for free! 👇 I’m also a review editor for Gender & History so let me know if you want to review global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Celebrating the publication of this #OpenAccess sourcebook on histories of women’s rights and feminism in socialist Eastern Europe. It is such a valuable resource for teaching! ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

Congratulations to the winners of the Women’s History Network Prize (2020-1) @siobhanhearne.bsky.social ; @jecfree.bsky.social and @kategibson.bsky.social womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

“Walter Ulbricht” has come up in closed captions as both “I felt so published” and “delta operation” and its making this lecture much more entertaining

Still buzzing from today’s record-breaking WSL game! And an Arsenal victory to boot!!!

Out now: Women's History Review, Vol. 33, Issue 1 (2024): Archiving, Exhibiting, and Curating the History of Feminisms in the Global 20th Century Edited by @jecfree.bsky.social and Christina von Hodenberg www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwhr20/c...

Your girl’s first keynote

And genuinely: please do write 300 words to the Guardian before Wednesday evening. This is our chance to get a national newspaper to say something about the state of Higher Education. Let's grab it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very much looking forward to the next IHR Modern German History seminar (15 Nov, 5:30 GMT). Dr Jane Freeland will be talking about "Gender Regimes and Divided German History: Rethinking Asymmetry and Entanglement" It's an in-person seminar, but there is an option to join online. Sign up here:

I’ll be presenting some thoughts on gender in post-1945 divided Germany at the @ihr.bsky.social Modern German History next Wednesday. Join in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/events/gende...

Apparently the only notable British artists are men, according to the official life in the UK handbook

If you have students interested in the Holocaust, the Parkes Institute's new Holocaust studies MA programme is open for 2024 admissions now -

Trying to create a PowerPoint on the Weimar Republic and word have made these very helpful (and cute!) design suggestions

Currently preparing for this discussion event on abortion reform in divided Germany and discovering I have far too much to say 😬