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Image of McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh. Text reads: A Decade of Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World. Join us as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World (UGCW), GENDER.ED’s flagship undergraduate course. This event will offer all those with fond memories of, and associations with, the course an opportunity to reflect on its history, its contributions to the University of Edinburgh, and its future.

A Decade of Understanding Gender: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of GENDER.ED’s Flagship Course

02 December 2025, 3.30pm - 5pm
Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Information and booking:
edin.ac/4r9ewWZ

Hosted online via Zoom!

🎄📣 P+S are feeling the festive spirit- come and see us at these upcoming markets! We'll be selling our brand new Christmas cards, Suffragette Trumps cards, posters, zines and more!
#buysocial #womenled #suportwomenbusiness

@womenslibrary.bsky.social
@govanhillbaths.bsky.social

PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📢 Calling our members! You can sign up for our next online social via Ticket Tailor. We are bringing back Film Club 🍿🎥

🗓 26 Nov, 7pm

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Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free

@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...

Elspeth King obituary Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history

A full and fulsome obituary for 'our' Elspeth, from Sorcha Dallas Gray at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Women of Many Talents Calligrapher, limner, embroiderer, writer – those are all arts in which Esther Inglis engaged. She seems to have been unique in Britain at the time, so who were her cohorts? There must have b…

See my new blog post on "Multi-talented Women" featuring the current exhibition at #NMWA on women as artists, engravers, calligraphers, sculptors, embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. I place #EstherInglis within this coteree of talented Netherlandish women. estheringlis.com/2025/11/17/w...

For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?

Black and white photo of a graveyard filled with wooden crosses. A nurse stands besides one of the graves

Nurse Annie Allan stands beside the grave of her colleague, Sister Burt. Scottish Women's Hospitals, Salonika, 1916. #ArmisticeDay #Remembrance

‘The Doctor Made Clear His Utter Contempt of Me, and I Can Remember It Still’1: Unmarried Women’s Experiences of Accessing the Pill in Scotland c. 1968–1980 Summary. In 1968, the barrier of marital status was removed from oral contraception. This meant that for the first time, unmarried women could legally acce

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#lestweforget #histnursing the Mapping Memorials site is so important - thank you for the reminder on this day .

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

A promotional poster for Glasgow Women’s Library titled “Meet the History Detectives.” The top section has the Glasgow Women’s Library logo and bold white text on a purple background. Below, three older women sit at a table smiling and discussing historical documents, books, and photographs. Behind them are monochrome illustrations of women from history. The lower section of the poster reads: “Thursday 27 November, 5.30pm – 7.00pm, Free, All Welcome.”

Meet the History Detectives 🕵️‍♀️

Hear short talks from Anabel Marsh, Anna Forrest & Beverly McFarlane, long-standing members of our History Detectives team. Topics include: Jessie Stephen, Rebecca Strong and Glasgow’s Lock Hospitals.

Book here: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/meet-t...

front page common cause newspaper obituary elsie inglis

Today @lselibrary.bsky.social friends event friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service during WWI . The Common Cause obituary Elsie Inglis
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social
@scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

Any Glasgow academic pals - please let your students know about this free 'Libraries that shaped me' event happening tonight at Kelvin Hall!

An illustration of several people with different skin tones – some with animals and baskets – who are wearing early medieval clothing and travelling through a forest

The 'Carved in Stone' book opened to the ‘Cuisine’ section, with text on the page bordered by an illustration of Pictish food and drink

An illustration of the Pictish promontory fort of Burghead from an aerial perspective, which includes a sandy bay, boats, roads, farmland and a variety of structures, including fortifications

"The Picts emerge from the shadows and step forward in technicolour" 🤩

'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

On #RemembranceDay, we encourage you to use the Mapping Memorials site to find war memorials dedicated to women like Scottish nurse Margaret Brebner (1885–1942), who became a Matron in Singapore and was killed when her evacuation ship was bombed.

womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...

Two World War One posters featuring women munitions workers. The poster on the left is an illustration of a woman donning her work overalls and the text reads 'These women are dong their bit - learn to make munitions'. The poster on the right is a photograph of a woman in work overalls, tucking her hair under a cap. She stands in front of a tank and munitions. The text reads 'On her their lives depend - women munition workers ernrol at one'.

On #RemembranceSunday we invite you to use and share our resources on Women, the Great War, and the Vote. These resources consider how the war affected women’s lives and the longer term campaigns for women’s suffrage.

womenshistoryscotland.org/resources/re...

Next week, Fiona Garwood is speaking on the Scottish Women's Hospitals. There will be a chance to view a rare Scottish Women's Hospitals' medal awarded to Philippa Strachey. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/events/

🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025
🕛 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 LSE Library

Just announced!

Feminist Research Methods Workshops
24 Nov, one hour workshops ranging from 12pm - 4pm

Sign up to any of our four workshop sessions to introduce undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students to feminist research methods.

Visit: edin.ac/47XXYJV

Nan Shepherd & her friends
21 Nov, Aberdeen – free, ticketed

Dr @timothycbaker.bsky.social looks at the importance of female friendship in Nan Shepherd’s writing & life, placing her as part of a much larger network of Aberdonian women writers & thinkers
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#histnursing

Frankenstein's monsters' bride illustration, by Steven Learmonth

Frankenstein's monster illustration, by Steven Learmonth

You can see a piece of the history of 'Frankenstein' in person at our free pop-up display this Friday! The display will feature Shelley's letters, early editions, and materials from our archives.

📌 George IV Bridge
🗓️ 11am-4pm, Friday 7 November
🎟️ Free Entry

Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. The…

New on the blog! Esther Freeman from @share-uk.bsky.social explores the different ways women have used food throughout history, and how we can reframe it as a powerful political tool #womenshistory

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Page 1 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Page 2 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? 🔍

For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library:
➡️ Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott
➡️ Rare early editions & items from our archives
➡️ and more!

Tributes paid following death of Scotland's ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King - Museums Association Social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow

News | Tributes paid following death of Scotland’s ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King – social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow

A courageous and fierce advocate for Scottish social and gender history - she will be missed.

Though born in Edinburgh, Naomi Mitchison CBE had a strong connection to Perthshire, as the Haldane family seat was at Gleneagles. She is one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia - we have made links between her article and that of her aunt Elizabeth Haldane, also a writer
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