✨ Today’s the day! ✨
We’re so excited for the Women’s History Scotland 2025 Conference 🎉 A day dedicated to sharing research, stories, and conversations that highlight women’s voices across history
@ymcfadden.bsky.social @cheadletanya.bsky.social
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
#WomensHistoryScotland
13.09.2025 06:24 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-202…
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
30.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 26 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
24.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 2229 🔁 1039 💬 34 📌 19
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
📣 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!
10.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Volunteer with Amma
Volunteering with Amma Birth Companions is an incredible way to support women and birthing people in Glasgow who would otherwise give birth alone. We provide care, information, and advocacy to ensure ...
If you’re Glasgow-based and care about access to safe and supported experiences of pregnancy/birth/early parenthood then please consider volunteering with Amma!
I completed my birth companion training with them earlier this year and it’s been incredible.
ammabirthcompanions.org/volunteering...
04.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...
‘Before October 2023, two women per year died in childbirth in Gaza; now the number is at least five per month. There is no water, no sanitation. Rats are everywhere.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
04.06.2025 08:55 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.
My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
30.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 40 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 0
Today MPs will debate e-petition 700014 on decriminalising abortion
This petition, which has over 103,000 signatures, states: “I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.”
Starts at 4:30pm
02.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 94 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 1
🚨 CfP alert 🚨
This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with other historians of gender in Scotland! Share with colleagues, students, friends (or anyone who might listen).
30.05.2025 12:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland
📢 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
10.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 22 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 3
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Dr. Bad Ferengi. Star Trek, fiction writing, and also Cultural Anthropology PhD.
Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
• first-year PhD student researching prison expansion at the University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Writer • Designer • Producer
Creator of Left at The Wellgate: The Untold Story of Mary Petrie Smith — exhibition on archival silence, maternal departure & emotional inheritance, now in development as a book & play.
www.linktr.ee/jamieleesauthor
Early Modern Scottish historian with a focus on women’s sexuality - all the juicy stuff
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC Sophie Thompson | Dep Ed @katiemacleann
Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
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/
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Research student at the University of Glasgow - Interested in women's involvement in conflict, war and political organisations in the (mostly early) twentieth century (she/her)
📚MA History graduate and independent researcher.
Interested in gender, social and cultural history, told through fashion, textiles and oral histories of women.
Usually chatting about banners and all that jazz.
Christian. Archaeologist. PhD @ University of Glasgow.
Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
PhD student, crafter, Sgitheanach (not always in that order)
Research: 19thC women, Highlands and Islands, crofting & land agitation
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
