Research Article: ‘A grotesque excuse for shirking what must be done’: the Medical Women’s Federation survey menstruation, 1925–1949' by Alice Theadora Billington is available #OpenAccess here:

Intro to new special issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social on 'Value' and women's work in broadcasting, co-edited with Kate Terkanian & Kristin Skoog, now published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Bookreview by Aleksandra Julia Malinowska: The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America, by Katherine Turk, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Another reflection on the life of the wonderful historian Gisela Bock, this one by tar Susan Zimmermann, available here:

#Researcharticle: Homemaking as a civic duty: contestations on the role of Filipino women in the debate on suffrage by Mary Dorothy Jose &Gene Segarra Navera is available here:

#Book Review: British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-war Britain by Lynda Nead, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, @yalepress.bsky.social Yale University Press, 2025, by Carol Dyhouse is available to view here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Research Article: Distorting the witness: how digital mediation shapes contemporary understandings of wartime sexual violence in the Anti-Japanese War Jocelyn Xu is available here:

Book Review: Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: the life and writing of a remarkable female intellectual by Sue Brown, (London, Anthem Press, 2023) is reviewed by Alison Stone here:

This #Viewpoint from renowned book seller and scholar Elizabeth Crawford will be of interest to man: 'Woman and Her Sphere: niche bookselling: niche research'

Research Article: Homemaking as a civic duty: contestations on the role of Filipino women in the debate on suffrage Mary Dorothy Jose &Gene Segarra Navera is available now here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Book Review: Reproductive rights in modern France: feminism, contraception and abortion, 1950–1980 by Maud Anne Bracke (@maudannebracke.bsky.social) Oxford, @academic.oup.com 2025, by Caroline Rusterholz is available here doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Delighted my article "Isabella Honan; wills and historical reconstruction" has just been published in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Isabella was an extraordinary woman and almost nothing has been written about her. @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledge.bsky.social.

PUB ALERT I have published a book review with @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social in which I praise @katherineturk.bsky.social's The Women of NOW as an important contribution to recent discussions on feminist historiography and the popular memory of the second wave. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Article: Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine? by Darcie Mawby is out and available at

Another #OpenAccess highlight: 'Hilja Pärssinen and the religious grounds for socialist welfare in early twentieth-century Finland' by Mikko Kemppainen is available here:

Book Review: Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries by Seika Sato, (Routledge, 2023) is reviewed by Nurul Azmi Aprianti & Ela Nurfitriyani here:

Don't miss this opportunity: As 2025 comes to a close, Taylor and Francis are featuring all our past Humanities & Social Sciences collections in one place. Revisit more than 90+ articles spanning across 30 journals, made free until 31 December 2025!

Book review: 'Appearances. Memory, history, clothes' by Carole Dyhouse, (2025), is reviewed by Lynn Abrams is available here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

#OpenAccess spotlight: 'Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene' by Non Vaughan Williams is freely available here, spread the word!

Editorial: 'Addressing the nation' by Kate Murphy &Kate Terkanian is available here:

Spotlight on #OpenAccess article: 'Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting' Kristin Skoog & Alexander Badenoch (@alecbad.bsky.social) available here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

I always relish opportunities to speak about the amazing life-long feminist activist HHH or H3 as her friends called her, so great to do so at #nacbs2025 on #1970sWomen roundtable yesterday & if your interest is piqued you can read all about her in this @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social OA article 😊.

Research article: 'Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity' by Fung Ying Loo & Shu Xia Deng is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school by Elizabeth A. Baker is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

An obituary is now available to read: 'Remembering Laura Lovett (1963–2025), a former Deputy Editor in the USA of Women’s History Review'

Book review: Sufi Women and Mystics: models of sanctity, erudition, and political leadership By Minlib Dallh, New York, Routledge, 2024, ix+169 pp., £42.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781032433080 is reviewed by Irtiza Farooq. Available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

#Bookreview: 'Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: a beard to govern' edited by Grégory Dufaud and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin, (2025, New York and London, Routledge), 294 pp., £145.00 is reviewed by Claire G. Jones here doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

Just under a week to go until our next webinar! We'd love to see you there 💻 🔎 What: behind the scenes of #OpenAccess publishing 📅 When: Weds 8 October 2025, 2pm SGT 🎫 Reserve your spot here: spr.ly/6004AXher#OpenAccess

#Bookreview: Responsible pleasure: the Brook Advisory Centres and youth sexuality in postwar Britain by Caroline Rusterholz, (@carorusterholz.bsky.social) Oxford University Press, 2024 by Barbara Gabeler is now available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

#Bookreview: Sexual and Gender Minority History: a counter-narrative, by James I. Martin, Oxford University Press, 2025, reviewed by Yanyan Zhu is available at doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

I reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This was the smoothest production process of all time and I'm grateful to see a venerable women's history journal making space for trans history!

The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out! Important work from Catherine Kevin. Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new viewpoint is now available: An unrecorded 1785 discourse by Catharine Macaulay by Jacob Donald Chatterjee can be found here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

New article available now! 'A Chinese Portia: Laura M. White’s translation and reconstruction of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice ' by Bingyu Yang & Anbo Zhu is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

#Bookreview: Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries by Seika Sato and reviewed by Nurul Azmi Aprianti & Ela Nurfitriyani is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

Brilliant new article out by @susiedeedigan.bsky.social in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social & fully OA #Afterlives #womensgrassrootsactivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access! @anncurthoys.bsky.social from our forum on DV history in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social Full article: Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Women's History Review' (@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social) is calling for contributions to a special issue on Histories of Academic Women. Further details and instructions on how to submit here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art. 'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art' Read full article here👇🏾 doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

It was brilliant to be in conversation with Dr. Jane Brooks at the Library last week, I've been looking forward to this event since I reviewed Dr. Brooks' compelling book for the @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social last year. Catch up on the Library's Youtube page below.

Having spent past week writing article about intergenerational activism by women in Ireland in 1960s & 1970s (out soon I hope) it was nice coincidence to get news that this article 👇 on similar theme is in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social Vol. 34, 4 & fully OA. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Open access so free for all to read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....