Did you publish a book about or adjacent to #Shakespeare since the 2024 meeting of @saaupdates.bsky.social? Please fill out this Google form to provide information about your book and join us for a celebration at #Shax2026 in Denver on Friday, 4/3, from 10:30-11am. forms.gle/aTKJdQZniypr...

Our deadline is approaching! A reminder that you have until Monday 15 December to apply for our £750 bursary. Good luck everyone!

Only a few more days to go until our next in-person seminar at the Foundling Museum, London! It's free for all to attend, you'll receive a warm welcome, and find out about some fascinating women in history. Please share with anyone who might be interested in coming along! We have 3 speakers: /1

There's still time to apply for our £750 bursary! Deadline is 15 December. Please share!

Research funding opportunity! This is an excellent bursary for those working on any aspect of women's studies - it's designed for those who need it most (ECRs, indie scholars, PhDs). Do check out the details at @wsguk.bsky.social and apply!

📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/ #funding #ECR #PhD

Today is the final day to submit proposals for our next conference in May 2026 - email submissions to [email protected] and join us next year in Arizona!

Now on at the Newark Museum of Art - Stay: The Black Women of 19th‑Century Newark newarkmuseumart.org/exhibition/s...

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

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Great list - we are pleased to see entries for shows about Edmonia Lewis, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Michaelina Wautier & more! For a longer list of upcoming shows on these and other historic #womenartists - see Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2025 artherstory.net/museum-exhib...

It's this weekend! Our seminar series begins this Saturday afternoon, 4 October, in London. Come and join us - you'll receive a warm welcome and enjoy 3 great papers from Julia Hamilton, @pilarbotias.bsky.social and @georgianfun.bsky.social 1/

We have so much news to share, but first and foremost - our new seminar series kicks off on the 4 October! We'll be at our usual venue at The Foundling Museum with some amazing speakers. Please share: womensstudiesgroup.org/2025/09/17/u...

WSG member Karen Hearn is taking part in the George Villiers Study Day at Melton Carnegie Museum this Thursday 18 September. She will be one of five leading authors & academics discussing the eventful life & portraiture of the 1st Duke of Buckingham. leicestershirecollections.org.uk/villiers-rev...

The Royal Historical Society welcomes Fellowship applications from historians working in higher education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding via research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians 1/2

Another fascinating essay collection edited by WSG member @juliepeakman.bsky.social - available at a discounted rate for a short period. If you're interested in travel and gender in the eighteenth century, please check it out!

Need a holiday read? This edited collection showcases the research of our members, and is perfect for anyone with a passion for women's history. #womenshist #womensstudies

👋 Greetings from the NeMLA WGS Caucus! Follow us if you'd like to see CFPs for women's and gender studies, info about our conference events, and updates on our member opportunities (like our mentorship program and essay prize). Learn more about us at www.nemla.org/areas/caucus...

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

Delighted to receive these beauties in the mail today: the newly paperbacked volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic that I co-edited with @dalegothic96.bsky.social and @catherinespooner.bsky.social for @universitypress.cambridge.org

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q2, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs and exhibition catalogs, as well as books for young readers: artherstory.net/new-books-ab... #NewBooksAboutWomenArtists

This looks great! Fantastic to see funding for travel bursaries for PGR & ECRs. Please share the CFP with your network.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

The next volume in the Camden Series of scholarly editions of primary sources for historians is 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This volume will be published in print and online @universitypress.cambridge.org in August 2/2

📣 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!

This is an incredible offer to join the BSECS conference online - please share with your colleagues (you do not need to be a PGR/ECR to attend)

Did you know that the Recovery Hub offers free consultations on digital recovery projects? We're here to help you work through questions at any stage of your project, from early imaginings to the final product. #academicsky Book a chat with a digital humanist! calendly.com/recoveryhub-... (1/3)

Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

😍 Calling all Cavendish scholars! CFP below

We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!

Call for Papers for 100th issue of HWJ! Please share with your networks.

Thank you @seventydys.bsky.social for being a wonderful editor!

Join us on the 26 June to celebrate the online publication of Interviews with Historians and a new podcast: A Historian’s Life. The event will be followed by the opening of the Interviews exhibition in the IHR Common Room. www.history.ac.uk/events/speak...

Did you know that the WSG has its own reading group? Members will be meeting next week (5 June) to discuss Eliza Haywood's 'The History of Betsy Thoughtless'. We meet four times a year and books are selected by the attendees. Interested in joining us for informal and fun book chat? DM for details.

In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

📖Book review: Elisabetta Sirani by Adelina Modesti. "a highly accessible narrative which is gripping, informative, and truly illuminating....reminding us that many historical women artists are still awaiting equal representation outside of the boundaries of academia." /1 of 2

It's happening this weekend! Our workshop is taking place on Sunday in London, and there's just about time to still sign up...if you're quick! Details in the link below. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

In case you missed it: our workshop is now open for registrations. Join us in London for a wonderful day of discussion. Featuring Penelope Corfield as our keynote speaker. Details below!

Our CFP has been extended - there are just a handful of places left, so please get in touch if you'd like to be part of our seminar programme. We provide an especially good space for PhD students and early career researchers!

Today is the day! @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Dr Richard Johns and Dr Marjorie Coughlan are off to Harewood House today to meet with fellow co-curator, Rebecca Burton, to show some visitors around a preview of Austen and Turner, which opens on Friday 2 May: harewood.org/events/auste... 1/

The deadline for our CFP is tomorrow! Please consider submitting a proposal and joining our programme of lively, friendly seminars!

Tune into the Puebla de Nuestros Amores podcast tomorrow to hear WSG member Claudia Marín Berttolini discussing ‘Los Conventos Femeninos en la Puebla de los Ángeles’. Available at: www.youtube.com/@PUEBLADENUE...

Fascinating and eye-opening article on Anne Hathaway Shakespeare with as an added bonus a bit about the provenance of the book, which was in a school library created by the will of Lady Margaret Hawkins #EarlyModern #SortofHerBook

'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England sheds new light on early modern women readers... This fascinating book is a treasure trove of familiar and new evidence, complicating our sense of how and why seventeenth-century women used their books.' uolpress.co.uk/book/reading... #OA

📢 Our call for papers is now live! Would you like to be part of our 2025-2026 seminar programme? We provide a friendly and supportive platform for academics and independent researchers, with Zoom sessions and in-person meetings at the Foundling Museum, London. All welcome. /1 of 2

Congratulations to WSG members @rachelbynoth.bsky.social and @briannarobertson.bsky.social, who both have chapters in this fascinating new collection out today. Of interest to anyone interested in Georgian society, music, and culture. #skystorians

Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was first published on this day 1755. LEXICO'GRAPHER. n.s. [λεξιϰὸν and γϱάφω; lexicographe, French.] A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge. www.drjohnsonshouse.org/johnsons-dic...

Congratulations to WSG member Emma Clery for her new book on Mary Wollstonecraft. This appears in the "A Very Short Introduction" series by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congratulations to WSG Member, Peter Radford, for this wonderful review of his book "They Run with Surprising Swiftness". Reviewed by @devoney.bsky.social for @emwjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...