Thanks to BBC Gloucester and Epigram for covering the ‘Women Strike Back!’ exhibition, which has been extended at St Paul’s Learning Centre. You can view it until the end of June 2026

Exhibition to tell story of Punjabi princess and pioneering suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Wooooo! I can’t believe we did this, it’s huge! It’s been such a wonderful experience, I’ve learned so much from all authors and co-editors @historyrocio.bsky.social & Amber. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. (But yes, pls ask libraries to buy this or subscribe online to handbooks, it’s £££)

Our forthcoming JHUP collection to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press in 2027 now has a webpage! You can see the provisional ToC with all our fantastic contributors. Cover design will hopefully be getting confirmed soon, book out December '26 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion? Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton 24/3/26, QMUL, London E1 Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594 @qmul.bsky.social

So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

The wonderful Glory Oluwaseun is hosting a Black Feminist Reading Group at the Centre for Black Humanities, Bristol. Come along for conversation, community, Collins and Lauren Hill! More details on how to join and rsvp here:

Women Strike Back! New exhibition in Bristol explores histories of Black and South Asian feminist activists in Britain www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon… www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.

🔔 Next Thursday 19 March: Dr Rochelle Rowe (Edinburgh) will be speaking @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar on ‘The ‘West African Village’: Romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911.’ In person and online. Book now and join us if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction? @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

The best way to spend a grey Monday lunchtime! Art, history, feminism, poetry, jerk chicken, and more. Thanks to @saimanasar.bsky.social, the 'Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism' exhibition team, and poet Vanessa Kisuule for this launch event at St Paul's Learning Centre.

Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Women Strike Back! exhibition launch. And to the team that made this possible: Abi Freeman, Sarah Howard, Sreenanti Banerjee & Siza Dube. It will be up for a few weeks at St Paul’s Learning Centre and Bristol Central Library. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Our exhibition is today! We look forward to seeing you at noon!

Happy International Women’s Day! Let's create a thread of women from history we think more people should know about. We will start: Una Marson (1905 – 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer. Image: WikiCommons #WHM26 #InternationalWomensDay

My excellent @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Leslie James finds a glimmer of hope in the ashes of the AI revolution... www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢. 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom) We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

We’re delighted to feature our story discs project at the #MovedToCare exhibition! Join us at the launch this Thursday evening to say hi and fill in a disc. Prompts range from "I migrated here" to "My grandparents migrated here" and more. Hope to see familiar faces and make new friends! ✨

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around! Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Stir To Action has invited me to join their book festival on 22 May. I’ll be talking with Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) about charity, the economy, and what a genuinely solidaristic economy might require today. Get your ticket here! www.tickettailor.com/events/stirt...

Next month, I'll be speaking at the Graduate Institute about the research I've been working on recently. I'll be looking at sexual and reproductive health experiences in three English cities and asking what they tell us about Britain's decolonising decades. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Struggles, Strikes, Solidarity 5 Mar: Join @cathyhunt.bsky.social for a fascinating talk that examines the challenges faced by women workers and the extraordinary efforts to organise them into an all-women trade union, led by the charismatic Mary Macarthur @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Our AHRC group is celebrating research on histories of internationalism with 3 events. 1. Our conference on ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ will take place 19-20 March at Birkbeck. We’re thrilled to be joined by an amazing line-up of speakers. Reserve your space via www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

A reminder that I help co-ordinate a writing group for early career scholars/PhD students working on global feminism (broadly conceived!). We meet every second month over zoom and read someone's chapter or article and offer feedback. You can join, drop me a line here! Reposts welcome.

For anyone who is UK-based and interested, SOAS has a PhD scholarship for ‘Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives’. Scholarship application deadline: 27 March 2026. www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen... @saltatchicago.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

"We have a challenge here in the face of appalling things happening around the world not to give in to a politics of despair because that's exactly what the people in power want us to do." Laura C. Forster, Julia Laite, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey on doing history in turbulent times.

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Join us on 19 Feb as we explore the archives and examine the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain. Hear Leila Hassan Howe (Race Today), Nigel De Noronha (CoDE) and Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations) with GPI's Sarah Garrod. Chair Arielle Lawson. Free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

On 16 April, we co-host 'History and Archives in Practice, 2026' with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library. For #HAP26 our theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’ bit.ly/4tvKUnX. Booking now #Skystorians

Please join us for the launch of our 'Women Strike Back!' exhibition on Monday 9th March. The wonderful Vanessa Kasuule will be joining us for a poetry reading. You can book your tickets via: ticketpass.org/event/ELVTJM...

Two more PhD scholarships at @kingshistory.bsky.social: focussing on different aspects of Nigerian history, and working with my excellent colleague @bixhiribarren.bsky.social : www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

This is appalling on multiple levels. The World Service is an underrated gem for us and lots of the world.

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

If you’re planning to be in Sheffield in April, @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are hosting the annual History & Archives in Practice conference, registration now open! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

The SOMS research project is delighted to share another clip from 'The Secret of Her Success' documentary film. The full trailer can be viewed on BlackBark films website: www.blackbarkfilms.com #humsbristol #artsmatter #bristolresearch #womeninselfemployment #blackbarkfilms

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The Home Secretary has several times said she thinks levels of net migration remain quite high + are comparatively high This is mainly a vibe. There are a few factual mistakes/over-spins in her explanation of why she thinks this but many journalists + MPs may not quite notice those.

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

With support from @uobrishistory.bsky.social & @uobartsmatter.bsky.social, these Cantonese workshops form part of my new project to develop Chinese-language resources to support the global HK diaspora to research & preserve their family history. Feel really privileged to be able to do this work!

I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.