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

Applications invited for the Society's new Panel Grants programme, 2025-26: bit.ly/4ky23ZP Grants support groups of historians (working in and outside higher education) to create panels to speak at a designated conference. Closing date: 23 May #Skystorians

Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians

It's a good time to be a women's/gender/queer historian in Oxford. Link to Trinity term events! www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w...

Amy Dry Stanley: 'the White House paymaster, who is now using the power of the purse to govern private universities as well as to control history teaching in public institutions, including the Smithsonian' www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The administration is leaning on gender essentialist myths to justify the illegal abduction and removal of US citizens. They say a US-born child is "not at substantial risk of irreparable harm if kept with her lawful custodian mother." Even if her mother is deported. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/u...

Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. (1/3) www.axios.com/local/indian...

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

Smart Teen Vogue piece connecting US generations around care.

Hey, #histmed, #histgender, #histwomen, #histsex folks, as OAH has extended deadline to April 29, anybody want to join me for a session on "Sex/Ed: Sex Education and Sexual Diversity in US History"? Thinking of a traditional paper session although I'm open to another format.

In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer... #TransRights

I'll be talking 'Care in the Fifties: A Story of Women and Psychoanalysis' for the Founders Lecture @stjohnsox.bsky.social next month. Do come - and the backdrop won't be pink! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...

JOB, UK - WOMEN'S HISTORY: "The National Women’s MP" with my excellent colleague Lyndsey Jenkins @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/outrea...

JOB - UK, WOMEN'S HISTORY: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT220/r...

So it strikes me that certain *very narrow* bands of US society - professors, lawyers/judges, journalists, international students, who else? - appreciate the high new lawlessness in what's going on. A weird vanguard to add to those on who the state has leaned nastily (sex workers, minoritized poor)

Senior Americanists! It is a great time to bring your talents to Oxford for 27-8, 28-9 or 29-30. (Yes, just think about that.) The Harmsworth Visiting Professorship is as lovely a gig as it gets, now with a more transparent process of appointment

Okay, so my awesome sister @sharonie621.bsky.social just showed me how to customize Google to search without AI. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER NOW. Maybe I'm the last person to do this. But just in case I'm not, it's easy to set up. I'll share the steps here. (1/8)

Humanists' CLEANSE: The ACLS fellows for 2025-6 are a gorgeous reflection of everything we value about knowledge-making: www.acls.org/recent-fello.... Congrats to all

Ann Catherine Green (1720-75) was a proud printer in Maryland. She printed the Maryland Gazette, visible in this portrait of her by CW Peale that I saw yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery. In a law guide she claimed her title as printer, beautifully engraved on the title page. 1/