CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist

Extended CFP deadline to 15 June 2026: Please do share widely!! "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care" - 1 day conference 4 September 2026, keynote @janehamlett.bsky.social to be held at Wilton's Music Hall [1/9]

The palaeontologist Mary Anning was born on this day 227 years ago! In our Fossil Marine Reptiles Gallery, you’ll find some of Mary Anning's spectacular finds, including her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Much like they did two centuries ago, her discoveries continue to intrigue us today.🦴

⏰️ Still time to apply for our £500 research bursary! It is open to masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians who research women’s and gender history, particularly for those working on Scottish themes. 🗓 Deadline 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

📢 Call for Papers: Women’s History Scotland Conference We’re excited to invite proposals for our conference, taking place online on Friday, 18 September 2026. 🗓 Submission deadline: 1 July 2026 Please share this post widely! Find full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c...

⏳ Still time to apply! Our Research Bursary (£500) is open to master’s students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians working on women’s and gender history (especially Scottish themes). 🗓 Deadline: 31 May 2026 Details here 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

We are open for applications to the MA Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture for Sept 2026. Tutors include @c19thceleb.bsky.social @christopherpittard.bsky.social @bradbeaven.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social For info on our distance learning course see 👇 www.port.ac.uk/study/course...

CFP: Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care - 4 September 2026 - Keynote Address @janehamlett.bsky.social 🌟This conference examines how the 19th century shaped ideas of belonging through its landscapes, laws and collections, and how its legacies still shape heritage today 1/7

March's Treasure of The Month takes us inside the minute book of the Women’s Linnean Club, offering a rare glimpse into a little-known chapter of the Society’s history. The volume came to the Society from Kew, where it had lain tucked away in a cabinet of fungal specimens. buff.ly/nuEB9BG

NEW BLOG POST! For #Portsmouth100, the centenary of #Portsmouth's city status, and #WomensHistoryMonth, we've been looking at some of Portsmouth's railwaywomen. Read more here, including about the Allaway sisters, Ethel & Alice: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouths-...

If interested in applying for our collaborative PhD, 'Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950', we will be holding a live webinar on Tuesday 24th March (1-2 pm). For further details about the project and webinar, see www.rmg.co.uk/ahrc-collabo...

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Thank you to all who joined us for our annual conference up in Inverness and to @uhihistory.bsky.social for hosting us!

📣 BSHS Small Grants – deadline 31 March Looking for a little support for archival visits, research trips, or research assistance? BSHS offers small grants (£50–£500) to help move research projects forward. Especially aimed at early-career researchers. Find out more: bshs.org.uk/grants/#rese...

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference Friday 26th June 2026 Edge Hill University For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians

📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more. 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen! 🎂 Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775. 📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature.

📢 Calling WHS members! For our last social of 2025, we are delighted to host @womenof1000.bsky.social who will be sharing research on music and dance among itinerant herring gutters in British and Irish fisheries 🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians

⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history. Share widely 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻 We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...

The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members. Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Thoroughly enjoyed attending @curioustravellers.bsky.social ECR Day yesterday. Enjoyed listening to some amazing and thought provoking papers and presenting on Maria Graham’s South American travel writing

📢 Happy September and welcome to the start of a new academic year! What better way to start off 2025/26 as a history PGR than to apply for our bi-weekly seminar series? 💻👩‍🏫 (1/3)

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland. Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow. Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

📢 Our annual conference is less than a week away! 💻Did you know you can sign up to attend online? Use the link below to virtually attend our conference, and carry on reading for the event's programme! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 Call for Papers! Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive. 📝 Deadline 1 July 2025 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Share widely!

Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly. Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

Amazing cyanotypes produced by Anna Atkins

📣 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!

The Society welcomes applications for two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history. Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

It's #BiodiversityDay today! Bask in this bloom of beautiful botanicals illustrated by Dorothy Fernando in 'Wildflowers of Ceylon' 1954.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

For National Garden Day, take a read of our Women’s History Magazine special issue on gardening. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

📢 WHS Research Bursary! Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes. 🗓️ Deadline: 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding