📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

THANK YOU to everyone who has bought raffle tickets for our upcoming fundraiser. We really appreciate your support. The prizes are amazing! It will be drawn at our Festive Fayre - this Saturday, 29th November. Please buy a ticket if you can: womenslibrary.org.uk/shop/gwl-fes...

Please note that our Archive and Museum Collections are closed to researchers throughout December, until 19th January.

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open! Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social 🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

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/

Emotions & Society have created a student reading list. Available open access until October: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso...

Glasgow Women's Library is cool. That's obvious. But it is literally a cool building to escape the scorching heat today, and we have this brilliant event on too - 'Women's Records' - showcasing various archive materials relating to women and music @womenslibrary.bsky.social

If you enjoy historical, archive based research on witches... this is the talk for you! Looking specifically at male witches tried in Poland and interrogating some of the common historical narratives around witch trials and men tried as witches youtu.be/PYuvLmP5bRQ

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

📢 Women’s History Scotland Research Bursary! Please spread the word and share with researchers, postgrads, & colleagues working on women’s histories in Scotland. 📝 Info & apply: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... ⏰ Closing end of May! #WomensHistory #ScottishHistory #ResearchSupport

A reminder that I'm available for a range of freelance (historical) research and writing-related tasks. In the past couple of months I've transcribed handwritten texts, photographed documents in archives, copyedited, and undertaken a commissioned organisational/institutional history.

Last couple of days to submit an expression of interest to our Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History in Edinburgh on 22 July ⬇️ 🗃️

In case you missed it ... Here's the Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo destroying the claim that foreign workers reduce domestic wages. In fact, they actually help UK workers by adding to the talent base and allowing the economy to grow. Getting rid of them just leads to more automation. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Well done @scotnational.bsky.social on today's cover. Labour better wake up soon and realise that fascist nostalgia is not going to solve any problems

To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War. I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

I'm honored to at the University of Glasgow next Wednesday for the Center for Gender History's annual Global Gender History public lecture to talk about the 18th-century migration stories of "Charlotte from the nation of Senegal" and other enslaved and free black women from West Africa to Nantes.

This is from the MP from Folkestone - it’s really clear and it’s really accurate. People should download it and refer to it should they run into any hassle from service providers or employers who are using the EHRC ‘guidance’ as if was ‘law’.

Our response to the recent Supreme Court ruling ‘For Women Scotland Ltd. v. The Scottish Ministers’: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At least 200 trans people and allies came out to the EHRC’s Glasgow office at lunchtime today to tell them what we think of their bad-faith, discriminatory, transphobic and misogynistic ‘guidance’. Trans power!

Holy shit, there are hundreds of people at this trans rights demo outside the EHRC in Glasgow. On a Friday lunchtime!

Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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

Feels obviously insane to post this today Amidst Everything, but today is Teaching Gender's official print publication day. You can read more about the book here global.oup.com/academic/pro..., and there is a discount code you can use to purchase it if e.g. you have an academic research allowance.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

My latest journal article is out now with @historywo.bsky.social This is the story of an Irish circle of activists, artists and intellectuals who set out to re-imagine what society and sexuality could look like, in Ireland and elsewhere. It is free to read here: academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

We are delighted to announce another fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, this time in conjunction with @theul.bsky.social. "The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage". Deadline 30 April. See here for full details: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #histsci

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Reminder ⏰ - deadline for submitting a paper to the national Women’s History Network conference in Sep is soon! The conference is online (which I know can have downsides) but also enables people around the world to connect and promote women’s and gender history, needed now more than ever 💫

✨NEW PUBLICATION✨ @sshmedicine.bsky.social I am over the moon that my new article “unmarried women’s experiences of accessing the pill in Scotland c. 1968-1980” is finally out OPEN ACCESS in SHM. It draws on 31 #oralhistory interviews eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A call for papers from the West of England and South Wales Women's History Network annual conference! This year's theme is Historical Perspectives on Women and Food on Saturday 11th October 2025 to be held at the University of Exeter. #womenshistory

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Explore the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) online reading list on women's history

navsa.org/2025/03/18/c... Please spread the word about this lovely conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century University of St. Andrews 28-29 August 2025

PLEASE REPOST: I'm looking for someone to do one to two days (possibly more) of (paid) research assistance in Los Angeles for my current book project. I need someone who is experienced with archives, careful, and discreet. Ideal work for a grad student in history. ben [at] ben writes things dot com

'Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism. Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it. In particular, it has a fatal weakness that Democrats and Trump’s other opponents should make their primary and relentless line of attack.' (Corruption)

COVER REVEAL 🎊 We are delighted to share the cover for our edition of Before Gender by @elierlick.bsky.social, publishing this June. Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history. Pre-order your copy today!

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

My colleague John Sutton is recruiting 6 PhD studentships (Oct 25 start) for the University of Stirling's interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory-- this is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving new research community! Details below placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

🚨 Now Accepting Submissions! Women's History Scotland Leah Leneman Essay Prize 🎉 Submit your essay on women's or gender history to win £200. Open to students & independent scholars—focused on any period or place. 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScottishHistory

Happy Women's History Month 2025! 💁‍♀️🌎 We're giving you 40% off our essential titles in Women's History with code WHM40 💜 From our latest non-fiction releases, to ground-breaking academic research. Browse now: buff.ly/4igZxFk

Absolutely buzzing for this collection to be in the world soon! It's both all the things Jon & I needed to say about doing decolonial work on gender nonconformity right now, & a snapshot of some of the people who are doing that work most brilliantly. I'm so excited & so honoured to have all of them.

Coming soon: 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/3M9uKwx Rachel's is the 21st book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' for early career historians. This and all 20 titles in the series are Open Access and free to read.

We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference! ⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025 🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa... 🗃️

The new(ish) 'umbrella' site for archive collections across Scotland is worth checking out/bookmarking despite the sad fact that not all archives have added their catalogues: it can only get better! Pleased to see it includes university collections. yourscottisharchives.com

Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase