Lyndsey Jenkins

Might finish Lily King, Heart the Lover today which also seems in contention

Books of the year: Colm Toibin: Long Island; Niamh Mulvey: The Amendments; Megan Hunter: Days of Light; Alba de Cespedes: Forbidden Notebook; Yael van der Woudon: The Safekeep; Virginia Evans: The Correspondent; Katherine Rundell: The Impossible King; Sarah Perry: Death of an Ordinary Man

Sincerely hope you ate all the sweets instead

I had meant to give a shout out to @genderwork50.bsky.social so let me do that now www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Romance fraud, the Sex Discrimination Act, Slady tribute band at Christmas How can you spot a romance fraudster?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

17 minutes if you want to hear about the fiftieth anniversary of the sex discrimination act (there are lots of interesting items today including excellent women in tribute bands)

You can visit the exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum and Archive until next summer

www.brucecastle.org/whats-on/cur...

@beccagold.bsky.social

Just spotted the headline calls her ‘young’ which might be comforting for those of us over 40, but does speak to a preconception about suffragettes…

History's Heroes - History's Toughest Heroes - Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel - BBC Sounds A young suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.

It’s the partnership you didn’t know you needed - me and Ray Winstone, 3pm radio 4

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@mansfieldoxford.bsky.social

Started reading new Elly Griffiths book and one of the main characters is a nineteenth century historian at QMUL and yet it is terrrrrrrrrrrible this is no Ruth Galloway @cadebellaigue.bsky.social

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

Writing feverish fan fiction about Lena Jeger is 100% how I spend my time

What do people do with open access article licensing in the era of AI? I usually pick CC BY NC ND but this now allows for ‘text and data mining or your works’ which I don’t want. Is this… too bad for me? Or are there alternatives I should choose?

Closing this week - but if you are worried about books not arriving on time, just email me!

Chris Woakes sees Lucy Bronze and raises her….

Not wholly sure this is healthy.

Unexpected consequence of euros is that Lucy Bronze is now my internal comparator. If I think ‘I can’t be bothered to go for a run’ she pops up in my brain to say ‘I played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia’. ‘I can’t be bothered to do that bit of work’.’WHOLE TOURNAMENT. FRACTURED TIBIA.’

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?

The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).

Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.

Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History

2 year teaching role in c20 British history

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/teachi...

WHN Annual Book Prize We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

There is just under a month to enter for the women’s history network’s best first book prize, for a first academic monograph, in women’s or gender history

@womenshistnet.bsky.social

womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Meanwhile I’m paying like £30 a month for my pain

Every time I go to the gym I think … why did no one spot this issue

Closing date today my friends

Thank you Jenny - I’m pretty pleased :)

This free exhibition is on at Bruce Castle in Haringey for the next year - if you plan to come I would love to say hello and see what you think

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

another job going on my Joyce Butler project - year long 0.6 role for an archivist.

jobs.haringey.gov.uk/jobs/project...

Have two pretty good seated #stereophonics tickets for Friday night in Cardiff I can’t use - would take offers - any interest? @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

Anyone here never cried at work?