Caitríona Beaumont

Such a valuable, inspiring new resource. So much work! 🙏

"For more than a century, women’s grassroots organisations across Ireland and the UK have driven meaningful change, from equal pay and rural electrification, to environmental protection and tackling gender-based violence."

Thank you Claire ❤️. It was indeed a lot of work, with c 28 events over 18 months (!) but it was a team effort with fab colleagues @annefhlogan.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @racheljcollett.bsky.social & Anna Muggeridge & esp our amazing colleagues in our women’s organisations 👏.

Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years As we mark International Women’s Day, a new book looks at how women overcame the barriers and restrictions imposed on them

Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of the History of Medicine The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in…

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.

Honouring International Women’s Day with a look back at how far we’ve come.

In 1922, Irish women finally won full voting rights—thanks to the tireless efforts of those who fought for equality and democratic participation.

Their voices shaped our future and continue to inspire us today.

#IWD26

Died #Onthisday 1986 Prof. Carmel Humphries, the first female professor of zoology in Ireland nui.ie/news/2022/In...

Mná na Léinte Gorma | Player | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile Over 12,000 Irish women joined the Blueshirts in 1930s Ireland. Mná na Léinte Gorma uncovers their hidden story-of power, protest, and politics-in a time of turmoil. Their choices shaped a nation-and ...

Over 12,000 Irish women joined the Blueshirts in 1930s Ireland. Mná na Léinte Gorma uncovers their hidden story-of power, protest, and politics-in a time of turmoil.

I was pleased to contribute to this important documentary which you can now watch back on the TG4 Player:

shorturl.at/DSNPU

Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.

Cannot recommend it enough.

indeed any history where women's lives and experiences are muted at every point in the process of history production?
In the few cases where women's stories are recorded, they often don't make it into archives and when they do, they have been overlooked by historians...

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

One of the things I loved about Hamnet was that a 17th-century woman's life was at the centre of it.
Now, thanks to the Voicesproject.ie we can walk beside the Irishwomen alive at the same time.
Meet the Dung Queen of Ireland, and so many others...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Pleased to see my article published today!

New calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: opening in March 2026 - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following two schemes — open to postgraduate researchers and early career historians — with closing dates of 5 June 2026. For further information on ...

Money for UK-based historians engaged in research and/or public history. #Skystorians

Great to see this journal article published today and available on open access. Link below or barcode.

Feminist Librarianship, which features a chapter on the Perth Women on Wikipedia library partnership, is available for pre-order - with 30% discount when you use the code WOMEN30
#WHM26

Select ticket – Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library, Sat 28 Mar 2026 - For Women's History Month, we are running a FREE Wikipedia editing workshop. The workshop is run by editors and trainers f...

28 March - our Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop in AK Bell Library, 10am-1pm. Learn editing basics from PWOW and local history team will introduce library resources to research #Perthshire women. Event is FREE but booking is essential (bring your laptop!)
www.tickettailor.com/events/perth...

Looking forward to this ‘Women in War’ conference and participating on the panel with my colleagues @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

All set for France and Boulogne-sur-Mer tomorrow for the 'Women in War' conference. Looking forward to hearing all the great papers & to our panel on Irish #Afterlives with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @lloislanel.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social
femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢.
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom)
We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

This sounds really interesting congratulations to all involved. And there is 30% off!

📢 New book alert 📢 via @manchesterup.bsky.social. New insights into #womenshistory #Irishhistory via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social 🥳

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

Love #FamilyHistory? Love family history societies? Societies always need help. Consider volunteering with your favourite society for a fun and rewarding experience! #GenHour www.familyhistoryfederation.com/find-a-society

Lovely to spend time with my team in Edinburgh
Bonus point for having a sneak peak of the excellent Prison Nursing exhibition which launches tonight www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest ‘Urgent’ reform aims to meet changing needs of students as they seek ‘direct routes to employment’

Worrying headline today in Irish Times. Experiencing maelstrom of cuts to humanities & social sciences in UKHE at first hand means that this is a clear warning sign that the crisis could spread to Ireland. Ignore at peril to these subject areas & the right to study them. @royalhistsoc.org @ria.ie

biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d...

please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!

Fab as always meeting up with colleagues on #Afterlives project & meeting at @ucddublin.bsky.social means I get to see the chimneys from hotel windows ❤️. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @corinnepainter.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social