Women's Studies Group 1558-1837

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!

WSG Bursary Scheme Applications for 2025-2026 open on 1 November 2025 WSG is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is in…

📢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 pstearns@gmu.edu and join us next year in Arizona!

Stay: The Black Women of 19th-Century Newark — The Newark Museum of Art November 17, 2023 ‑ January 2, 2028

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:

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1 Of all published articles, the following were the most read.

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

Historic Women Artists | 2025 Museum Exhibitions This post lists current and upcoming museum shows that focus on women artists of past centuries, which will be on view during 2025

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...

Seminars 2025 – 2026 programme The group has two kinds of meeting for seminars. In-person seminar meetings. These take place at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ, UK, on Saturday afternoon…

Subjects covered in our seminar this weekend
at The Foundling Museum include Anna of Denmark, Margaret Cavendish and Elizabeth Inchbald. Full details including abstracts are on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/seminars/ Please share with anyone who may be interested! 2/

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
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Upcoming in-person seminar at Foundling Museum, Saturday 4th October, 2025. We have an upcoming seminar taking place on Saturday 4th October, 2025.  In-Person: Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ, Saturday 13.00 for 13:30 – 16:30, British Summer Time (G…

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...

George Villiers Study Day

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...

Image of badges 'Trust Me I'm a Historian' with the caption: Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognizes the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

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: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

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

Two rows of book covers, five on each row - all of books about women artist.

#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.

Cover image for 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler (August 2025)

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!
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Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

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

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😍 Calling all Cavendish scholars! CFP below

Call For Papers: International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference 2026 17-19 June, Fredericton, Canada Cavendish Conference PosterDownload Join us at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada!

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.