Dr Elizabeth Gow

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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Boston, MA: Institutional Records Archivist (Central Library – Built Environment) (term), Boston Public Library Visit the post for more.

Archivist job!

The Boston Public Library (BPL) is seeking an archivist for a 3-year grant-funded position to survey, inventory, and manage historic institutional records related to BPL’s Central Library in Copley Square.

Jobs For Medievalists

Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
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Doctoral Open Days | British Library oin one of our Doctoral Open Days for an introduction into the areas of our collection which may be relevant to you, alongside practical tips for using the

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025:

16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online)
31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person)

More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

very pleased to be offering an open ended Archives Cataloguing post working with the University of Edinburgh's wide and deep literary archives. please do share with anyone interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

[Call for papers] FuMaSt – The Future of Manuscript Studies Fifth edition, Firenze, 5-6 February 2026 (no later than 30 October 2025).
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The IHR Black British History Seminar is now on Bluesky, thanks to @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social! Give a follow for updates:

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Guided walk – Women of Oxford Road Join this walking tour to explore the history of women of Oxford Road – from notable achievers to those hidden in history’s footnotes.

Calling Manchester students @officialuom.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social - I'm guiding a history walk on Women of Oxford Road, for Elizabeth Gaskell House as part of The Cultural Welcome @oxrdmcr.bsky.social. Free but booking essential. oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/guide...

Join historian & archivist Dr. Mari Takayanagi for her talk: 'Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women'

🗓 Thursday 9th October 2025
🕓 4–5pm
📍 Gladstone’s Library
🎟️ Tickets £10

Visit buff.ly/oFgJiZq to book your ticket.
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The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them."
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.

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17 September 1986 Ahmed Iqbal Ullah was killed, stabbed at his Manchester school. A report by Ian Macdonald examined racial violence in schools and identified that ‘racism was one of the vital ingredients’ leading to the Bangladeshi schoolboy’s death. @aiucentre.bsky.social takes his name.

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

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This is a great PhD opportunity for someone! I was lucky to do some work on Sarah Sophia’s coin collection in early days www.bl.uk/services/res...

The unknown Manchester lady who funded a Hogswart-style library How Cuban-born Enriqueta Rylands spent more than £100m to set up the John Rylands Library.

Great to see our founder Enriqueta Rylands getting a bit of attention... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎓 PhD at @manchester.ac.uk in AI and the Future of Museum Conservation – at the intersection of critical museology, conservation, digital humanities, & computer science, explore how AI might support, disrupt, or redefine conservation now. Apply by 24 Sept 2025.
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We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred

I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
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We have a medieval PDRA role on the same project recruiting too.

Women's Commitee Workshop - Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise - Economic History Society 12/12/2025 @ All day - Call for Papers (CFP) Annual Workshop of the Economic History Society Women’s Committee University College London Friday, 12 December 2025 Theme: Women & Entrepreneurship: Agenc...

The Call for Papers for this year’s ‪@ehswomcom.bsky.social‬
Workshop: Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise. Send in your proposals before the 5th of September, and don’t forget to share the CfP. More information can be found in the QR or at:
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Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...

The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students.

Book now!

09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm

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Job klaxon!

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...

ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

I Make Exhibits Who are museum exhibits for, and what difference does that make?

In a wonderful training with my coworkers and sometimes I can’t believe one of the first pieces I edited for @contingent-mag.bsky.social is still so relevant and helpful in my work. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/20/i...

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