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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her)
@beckierutherford.bsky.social
Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
I've spent almost 3 years with this wonderful team and am happy to answer any questions about how it all works - if you're thinking of applying for this role please feel free to email or message me!
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last mo.📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
We had a brilliant time presenting our research at the 50th Social History Society conference last week! Thank you to everyone who attended our panel and thanks for having us @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 😊 #SHS2026
We are dismayed to learn about further proposed HE cuts, this time at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Exeter. In solidarity, please join us by signing and sharing the two urgent petitions below. 🚨🖊️ 1/3
I've spent almost 3 years with this wonderful team and am happy to answer any questions about how it all works - if you're thinking of applying for this role please feel free to email or message me!
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last mo.📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
We're very excited to be sharing our research at this conference next week! Our panel is on Friday afternoon, chaired by @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social and we'll be presenting on three different strands of our project. First up is Anna Muggeridge whose paper is titled…
Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣Are you ready to get your disco on? After our conference's anniversary gala dinner (2 July), we will be having a 70s-themed disco to celebrate our 50th anniversary! Flares, long-collars and tie-dye encouraged!!🪩
CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
This is a thoughtful and incredibly useful synthesis of the growing historiography on motherhood - a brilliant addition to any reading list on modern British history!
The Historical Journal@historicaljnl.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣Out now on #firstview! Anna Muggeridge @worcesteruni.bsky.social and Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Politics of Motherhood in Modern British History' #Motherhood #Political #Maternal #History #Identity 20thc 🗃️👩🍼 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Being a part of this #MBS2026 panel was a real treat! Many thanks to my fellow speakers @drrochellerowe.bsky.social @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Aleph Ross @leilarsellers.bsky.social @benjamin-bland.bsky.social and @evemworth.bsky.social and our fantastic chair @tsasson.bsky.social
Modern British Studies Association@modbritstud.bsky.social · 2mo agoDiscussion of passing in relation to race, class, disability, gender & ethnicity raises very pertinent final questions for #mbs26: how modern is the sense of self that underpins ideas of passing? Is the language of presenting more useful? How can we explore sonic and embodied aspects?
Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...
OTD in 2020, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the world following the murder of George Floyd. To mark this date we have chosen some pieces from our archive which explore and celebrate Black history. First up is Emma-Lee Amponsah's reflection on Black Cultural Memory.
On Black Cultural Memory
In the years since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Emma-Lee Amponsah reflects on the shared global experience of Black Cultural Memory.
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The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2
Back in January I wasn’t able to attend the launch party for Issue 100, but behind the scenes I was busy preparing a new series of digital articles and podcasts to celebrate this HWJ milestone 🎉 It turns out doing what you love can pull you through dark times and help you navigate grief...
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 6mo agoThe latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj...
Please share and comment any reading recommendations below! We're especially keen to highlight the work of early career researchers alongside more established scholars of activist histories.
Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣 Calling all historians of activism and social movements! We're planning a new undergrad module on Power and Protest in 19th/20th century Britain and we would LOVE your ideas on existing and emerging research. Key questions are "what is protest?" and "who gets to protest?" and topics include...
Nice to learn about @elisaheinrich.bsky.social's research @eui-history.bsky.social in this: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=... Will surely be of interest to @beckierutherford.bsky.social + other #DisHist folks working on activism.
Sewing resistance: women
In this EUIResearch interview, Max Weber Fellow Elisa Heinrich explores how feminist and disability rights activists in Germanspeaking Europe built networks,
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Hi everyone! As some of you may know, our organisation, YHP, is focused on the promotion of the scholarship of Black British History. We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.
SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed 🏆£500 first prize Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025). For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇 #histmed
Roy Porter Prize 2025-2026
Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. Downl…
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I've been developing this series since I joined the @historyworkshop.org.uk team two years ago and I'm thrilled to finally kick it off with this fantastic piece by Barbara Taylor! Keep an eye out for lots more articles and podcasts after Christmas 👀
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 8mo agoToday we are launching a new series of articles and podcasts to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal 🎉✊🗃️ In this introductory article, Barbara Taylor reflects on a picnic she shared with other editors in 1984, and what it meant to be part of the HWJ collective.
"Being an editor was intensely sociable as well as stimulating ... I loved being a History Workshop editor and the intellectual excitement that came with it." Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
An Editors' Picnic
Barbara Taylor introduces a new series with memories of a picnic she shared with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.
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it was a pleasure to draw up this programme with Anna, Eve and @ruthdav.bsky.social - please share widely and we hope to see you in February!
Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year? Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
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HWJ is 50 years old next year and we're about to launch a fab new series of articles and podcasts all in celebration of the 100th issue! Come along in January and wish us a Happy Birthday 🥳
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 8mo agoNext year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. 📍Birkbeck, University of London 🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026 ⏱️14:00-18:00 Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
I feel conflicted about UK Disability History Month - I love that it exists but each year I grow more disillusioned by how much it gets overlooked and ignored. 1/8 🧵
As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 8mo agoGirl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
We are starting to plan our monthly events schedule for next year and we would love your input! Would you like to lead one of our sessions? Or do you have any ideas for speakers/themes that you would like to see explored? Please do get in touch! #DisHist
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 8mo agoGirl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Another update from us to round off the week! We were absolutely delighted by the overwhelming response to our conference, and have now been in contact with all of our speakers. We are aiming to share our official programme in the first week of December so watch this space!
Voices of Motherhood@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
I've been thinking about this quote all day "Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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