This week's Kickass Women of History, with special guest @historyhobbs.bsky.social , is included in the Scholar Sunday roundup
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It was great to meet you too! I’ll come back to talk about my favorite kickass women anytime!
29.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @kickasswomenof.bsky.social for such a fun conversation! (Not in the sense of “criminal conversation,” as features prominently in this episode.)
29.04.2025 13:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Come celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s birthday with me and @drclaireocall.bsky.social! Tickets still available at www.bronte.org.uk/events/celeb....
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Portrait of young Wilkie Collins
Holding space today for Wilkie Collins’s 201st birthday
🎨 John Everett Millais, Portrait of Wilkie Collins (1850)
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Absolutely! DM me or send me an email (website link in profile) and we can talk more!
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Thank you!
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I’d love to join if there’s still room!
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I’d love to join if you have room!
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Katherine Hobbs stands at “Mina Edison in the Archives” exhibit
Close-up of archival box
Katherine Hobbs in Old Calton Burial Ground
Shelf of archival boxes at Thomas Edison National Historical Park
Hello Bluesky! I’m a public historian and writer specializing in 19th-century women’s history, legal history, and literary history.
I enjoy freelance consulting for museums etc. and am currently working on my first book about marriage law in Victorian Britain.
Looking forward to connecting!
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Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social.
irinadumitrescu.com
Associate Professor of British American History at the University of Central Arkansas. Books on the history of early American taverns (NYU Press); merpeople (Reaktion Books); enviro history of American Revolution (UNC Press). www.vaughnscribner.com
Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Textile historian🪡 curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
PhD candidate @ annenberg penn studying mental health & digital media/technology
Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian
| LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana...
https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
Author of the occasional book about literature and the biological sciences. Out now: ‘We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us’.
Historian of women and politics, feminism, the left in modern Britain.
Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
Historian of women, gender, sexuality, and queer history.
Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 7,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
PhD Researcher & creative writer Loughborough University. Writing a blend of memoir and historical fiction with focus on women in 19th Centuary LDS Church - MA from UEA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction. I have a Bedlington Terrier called Smudge 🌊⚓️🧜♀️
Historian of early CA, gender, sexuality, borderlands. L.A. native. Views my own, not my employer’s. NEH fellow, 2023-24, Huntington Library. ❤️ jigsaw puzzles, cross stitching, burlesque, comedy shows, deejays. Look for me on the dance floor! 🪩 🏳️🌈🖤
Historian of women's history, nationalism, and religion in the 19th century (mostly Italy and Britain).
Adjunct Asst Prof at John Jay College, CUNY
Author of FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA, publisher of the Carnal Knowledge newsletter, and co-host of This Is Probably a Really Weird Question, a podcast about sexual health and history.
