Sarah Knott

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

Meet Professor @sarahknott.bsky.social, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at @stjohnsox.bsky.social and @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social.

We spoke to Professor Knott after her inaugural lecture this week about what the Chair means to her, and why it's so important.

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

POSTDOC at Edinburgh on digital slavery project. www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

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Grateful to share insights from our archives w/ @stjohnsox.bsky.social + @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social this week. As Prof. Sarah Knott shared, historians rely on archives to do what they do, & safe repositories like ours are essential for contextual understanding & research

Full details including how to join remotely via Teams here ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist

Great dissection. Certainly a hard take on Orwell if you read him (as I did) as an adolescent. There's patriarchy and its erasures and presumptions, and there's also cruelty. Following your lead to avoid spoilers

HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November

Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Thanks for the shout out! And - uncanny - two of the others are on my shortest list of favourites, too. Now to read the others

The Invention of Gay Community, 1953-1969 Norther American History Seminar- Session 2

My wonderful new Oxford colleague, queer US historian Mori Reithmayr, is giving a paper in London on 13th Nov on the invention of gay community: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Oh my, a real surprise! And so lucid, too

Wonderful!

There's always the covid vaccine. Lyndal Roper. I can think of a few good things

For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!

Thanks for reporting in safe, Seth

FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

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If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck

Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

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Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum

Yes. I did write an immediate reply, fwiw

Job (US): The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialty in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172309?fbcli...

So pretty!

Not here! But the peaches are still peachy even if there’s no more, well, y’know

Career Development Research Fellowships 2026 at St John's College, Oxford Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

POSTDOC for early modern lit folks, 4 years, my lovely college in Oxford which is full of other marvellous postdocs. Recommend wholeheartedly. Also see the cute @stjohnsox.bsky.social video (think airline style) at the link www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR859/c...

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

Good university news in dark times: new interdisciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality beginning at University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...