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Katharina Rowold

@kathrowold.bsky.social

Historian of infancy, childhood, motherhood, women and gender. Mostly modern Britain.

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So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

24.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 90    🔁 64    💬 7    📌 23
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Motherhood Without Poverty 2026 Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939) Call for papers A One-Day Hybrid Workshop at the University of Glasgow Frid...

📣📣Call for papers

sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...

Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".

27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.

Please share!

08.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
ART GALLERY — Institutions and Infant Care

I’m delighted that the three wonderful creative responses commissioned for my and @niamhcullen.bsky.social‬ AHRC network ‘Institutions and Infant Care’, can now be viewed online www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/services-2, featuring works by Izaac Elliott, Alison Lowry and Alice Kinsella.

21.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

30.01.2025 12:06 — 👍 18    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 5

Could I be added too, please? Thank you.

24.01.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM

24.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 336    🔁 231    💬 4    📌 18
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Building Modern Scotland Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland's new towns.One of the most significan…

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-...

Great to see this out in the world. A real team effort to bring the story of Scotland's new towns into view. And it's Open Access!

22.01.2025 19:54 — 👍 19    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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Manchester University Press - Unhappy mothers Unhappy mothers - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Unhappy mothers by Sarah Crook

And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

22.01.2025 12:36 — 👍 59    🔁 24    💬 12    📌 5
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Feminist histories: care, loneliness and embodiment Panel Discussion with Dr Anna Jamieson, Professor Sarah Knott, Dr Naomi Pullin and Professor Karen Harvey.

A first post on a cheering topic. Coming up in February, at Birmingham, with thanks to Lucie Ryzova and Karen Harvey: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

14.01.2025 11:33 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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A hybrid workshop on 'Histories of Maternity: Ideas, Practices and Transfers' will take place on 17 January 2025, from 09:00 to 18:00 CET at the Academic Conference Center in Prague and online via Zoom.

Don't miss out on this insightful workshop. More details👇

#histchild

14.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to announce that I’m co-organising with Niamh Cullen a conference on ‘Infants and Institutions: Foundling homes and residential care for babies in twentieth-century Europe’ at the London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025. Please share. See also www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1

11.12.2024 16:11 — 👍 15    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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