GRADUATE ARCHIVE FELLOWSHIP FOR HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, 4-8 week visit, $5000: kinseyinstitute.org/collections/...

What can happen when there is a women's movement: 'Bogotá is pioneering “care blocks,” neighborhood hubs where women can access free laundry, legal aid, job training, mental health services, and more while their children or elderly relatives receive care on site www.vox.com/policy/46963...

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

JOB, statutory professor: Post-1970s European History, University of Oxford. Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History, a storied post one held by Timothy Garton Ash, details at the link my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

ONE YR SENIOR FELLOWSHIP: 'Scarcity and Abundance', here at Oxford's Koch History Centre: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/k.... Wonderful opportunity to have Oxford be your research sanctuary and your scholarly community, 2026-7. SHORT DEADLINE

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

Meet Professor @sarahknott.bsky.social, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at @stjohnsox.bsky.social and @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. We spoke to Professor Knott after her inaugural lecture this week about what the Chair means to her, and why it's so important.

POSTDOC at Edinburgh on digital slavery project. www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Grateful to share insights from our archives w/ @stjohnsox.bsky.social + @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social this week. As Prof. Sarah Knott shared, historians rely on archives to do what they do, & safe repositories like ours are essential for contextual understanding & research

Full details including how to join remotely via Teams here ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

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

HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November

Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

My wonderful new Oxford colleague, queer US historian Mori Reithmayr, is giving a paper in London on 13th Nov on the invention of gay community: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!

FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

We have two jobs at KCL History! 16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l... And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l... (both to start in January 2026)

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum

Job (US): The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialty in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172309?fbcli...

POSTDOC for early modern lit folks, 4 years, my lovely college in Oxford which is full of other marvellous postdocs. Recommend wholeheartedly. Also see the cute @stjohnsox.bsky.social video (think airline style) at the link www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR859/c...

Good university news in dark times: new interdisciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality beginning at University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...

"Trans history enjoys the luxury of disbelief.... Fortunately, this rigour will inevitably come to be shared, as the entanglement of cisness and transness becomes impossible to ignore." Compelling contribution taking Byzantium as case in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

Out now! In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

NTT Digital Historian post at the wonderful Kinsey Institute. I can testify to how remarkable are the collections, the staff and the visiting researchers, who do their work despite all the ... despites. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30408

Timeline cleanse for anyone who annotates or teaches books. Terry Gross on how she marks up her hardbacks

Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

RIP the salty and magnificent Patrick Handscombe, who among all these other things, read History as an undergraduate and loved to talk books. His queer, talkative, Essex and Spitalfields worlds opened out my life spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/01/s...

Congrats to all those awarded visiting Bodleian Library fellowships for 25-26, especially the Ann Bodley Fellowship in Women's History #bodleian #WGQ www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Modern Americanists! Here's a 12 month post outside the US, here in Oxford. Short deadline with interviews in mid-Aug

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Calling on UK Black Female Academics: one of our Flexible Fund projects is studying the impact of hybrid working on Black Women Academics in post-Covid times. Led by Dr Tinkuma Edafioghor of U of West of England. Please share widely. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.

I'll be returning to Age of Revolutions waters today, discussing Lynn Hunt's new book on the revolutionary self and social change. Join us! 9am EST / 3pm BST / 4pm local. Zoom link below for those (like me) not lucky enough to be in Paris today gis-sociabilites.org/gis-interdis...

It strikes me that, in the UKHE context, we can also do more to minimize red tape/committees/meetings/internal funding applications/makework for which women are disproportionately likely to shoulder the admin load. Women shouldn’t do all the admin; but also, not all the admin needs to be done.

The Jenny Saville exhibit at London's NPG is a delight. I stood in front of the immense 2008 charcoal she allowed to grace my book jacket...

FYI, London folks - my friend Jack Doyle is running this new tour series; can guarantee it will inform & entertain! events.humanitix.com/trans-histor...

ARCHIVIST JOB, history of sex, gender and reproduction, at Indiana's Kinsey Institute. Note location, note remarkable institution: hrms.iu.edu/psc/PH1PRD_P...

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

This piece about the many meanings of male/female used by different branches of the US federal government is very helpful: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Really excited about our upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the 'Legacies of Section 28' in contemporary history, education and activism, which will be held at UCL on 6th and 7th June. For more details and to register for this free event: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Job Opportunity! University of Cambridge, Faculty of History Assistant Professor in 20th Century US History (Temporary Cover) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Historian on sabbatical or funded research leave for some of 25-26? You might like to eye this Oxford visiting fellowship at Mansfield College: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Applications invited for the Society's new Public History Grant programme, 2025-26: bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants support collaborative work between historians in higher education and those working in related fields of public and community history. Closing date: 23 May #Skystorians