Women's History Scotland

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.

To mark #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction we launch @ukri.org #AHRC funded project #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ toolkit. Join us:
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm-7pm (UK time via Zoom)
& find out more here: learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass... #WomensHistoryMonth Please re-post 🙏 #RightsJusticeAction

Quiet pioneer: the novels of Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) - The Bottle Imp Charlotte Peacock on Nan Shepherd's three remarkable novels: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians

Recently Nan Shepherd’s nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important #modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance
#InternationalWomensDay
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quie...

This episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an award-winning poet in Gaelic. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇿

Petra’s perspective is totally unique, and I’m very glad to share this conversation with you.

pod.link/1865430519

Celebrating #IWD2026 with the formalisation of @aowensarchive.bsky.social — first satellite of The Alasdair Gray Archive. Reordering 700+ items to centre Owens’ radical, darkly comic voice ahead of her 2026 centenary.

Until 31st May applications for the Research Bursary are open!
We’re offering one £500 bursary to support research in women’s and gender history.

Find out more and apply via the link below. Let’s keep discovering and sharing Scotland’s women’s histories!

womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

This #InternationalWomensDay we want to showcase what we do to bring researchers, educators, historians and independent scholars together. We support research, host conferences and online socials, produce resources, and award an essay prize and research bursary📝
womenshistoryscotland.org/membership/

Lovely session with @natlibscot.bsky.social on using their enquiry service to research Perth women - very useful for Wikipedia articles!
#Perth #Scotland #WHM26

So excited to be part of the lineup at the Paisley Book Fest in May. Using a bespoke deck of tarot cards developed as part of my research into medieval Scottish gender history, I’ll tell you what medieval woman you might be 👀 🔮 More info here: paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th...

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...

It's #WorldBookDay 📚 To celebrate, we have a new blog by @ninabake2.bsky.social about her new book which provides a complete list of the women professional seafarers in the UK's Merchant Navy who lost their lives due to enemy action

Read it here
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/03/05/s...

We’re now sold out, but you can still register to watch online! Link for webinar in Eventbrite below.

Really looking forward to talking to Friend of Perth and Kinross Archives about Discovering Perthshire's Notable Women with the Perth Women on Wikipedia project on 19 March at 2pm - please come along!

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...

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 ...

In March, the Society opens the following four calls for research funding - for historians in HE and related professional sectors across all career stages.

Further details on dates and eligibility are available here: bit.ly/46IGRuH #Skystorians

The Clockwork Orange Project We are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new literary project – and it’s happening right here in Glasgow. The Clockwork Orange Project is an experimental literary project taking place…

The Clockwork Orange Project is an experimental literary project taking place on the Glasgow Subway, sponsored by the @rsliterature.bsky.social, & is open to anyone living in or around (or with some meaningful connection to) Glasgow
kelvingrovewriters.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/t...

Women’s History Month is here!
Remember 🔊 Resist 💥 Celebrate 🎉

From Suffragettes to Rent Strikers, from artists to activists, women shape history.
Mark the month by supporting our vision of a world without misogyny.

Talk and Book Launch- Featuring Dr Nina Baker OBE The untold story of female Merchant Navy seafarers who lost their lives to enemy action in the First and Second World Wars

This #IWD2026, the @scotmaritimemuseum.bsky.social hosts a special talk & book launch by @ninabake2.bsky.social

🗓 Sat 7 March, 6pm (doors 5.30pm)
📍 Linthouse, Irvine Harbourside

Discover the untold stories of Scottish Merchant Navy women lost to enemy action

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-and-b...

Women's History Network Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina…

Join us next Tuesday, 10 March at 4pm GMT for our fascinating panel on 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' featuring papers from Dr Julita Oetojo, Dr Irina Malinina, and Dr Simona Valeriani and chaired by Dr Kate Smith. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/

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

Marguarite Stocker in uniform

Marguerite EG Stocker apprentice engineer @ Galloway Engineering Co in #Tongland #Scotland which advertised professional training & was "a fine university for women engineers". Later Governor of HM Prison Askham Grange #Yorkshire 1959-67. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguer...

YouTube video by UHI Institute for Northern Studies Public Seminar Series Placing Women, Tracing Journeys Female Mobility and Social Bonds

'Placing Women, Tracing Journeys: Female Mobility and Social Bonds in the Norse Period' by @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies Tara Athanasiou Public Online Seminar uploaded to our You Tube Channel.

youtu.be/GvuSyaJkoyE?...

Talk and Book Launch- Featuring Dr Nina Baker OBE The untold story of female Merchant Navy seafarers who lost their lives to enemy action in the First and Second World Wars

This #IWD2026, the @scotmaritimemuseum.bsky.social hosts a special talk & book launch by @ninabake2.bsky.social

🗓 Sat 7 March, 6pm (doors 5.30pm)
📍 Linthouse, Irvine Harbourside

Discover the untold stories of Scottish Merchant Navy women lost to enemy action

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-and-b...

📢 March is #Women’sHistoryMonth – a fitting time to support new research in women’s and gender history!

Women’s History Scotland invites applications for one £500 Research Bursary for 2026. For conditions and how to apply visit 🔗

womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Please share widely!

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

📣Bookings now open!

👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social

Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor

📅 24 Apr 2026
💷 from £10 for members

All welcome!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

Nominations for the 2026 GENDER.ED - EUSA UG Feminist Trailblazers Awards are now open!

This award seeks to recognise extraordinary commitments to feminist scholarship and change on campus.

To nominate yourself or others by 13 April, visit: forms.office.com/e/AwJ4Z5wyjg

We're marking Women’s History Month, celebrating women's voices & stories that have shaped our world.

Our reading list highlights trailblazers whose work continues to inspire and challenge us. Shop now with 30% OFF before 31st March here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03... #booksky

✏️ Open to Masters students, doctoral researchers, early career researchers, and independent historians, particularly those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes. The bursary prioritises research costs and will also consider image copyright and publication costs for first-time monographs.

📢 March is #Women’sHistoryMonth – a fitting time to support new research in women’s and gender history!

Women’s History Scotland invites applications for one £500 Research Bursary for 2026. For conditions and how to apply visit 🔗

womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Please share widely!

A collage of photographs from the Early Women Doctors in Orkney display in the Archive

Right now in the Archive you'll find a fascinating display all about early women doctors in #Orkney, with a selection of documents, photographs and other items.

You can visit the display during normal Archive opening hours and you can read more about it on our Blog at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Our Queer and Trans Histories series is seeking proposals! We welcome works spanning premodern to modern eras, global perspectives, and across genders and sexualities, it explores intersections of age, race, class, religion, disability, and more.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...