Together, we can: ✊ Recover Scotland's hidden herstories 📚 Explore links between history and today's news 💜 Build a community that values equality, education and respectful conversation 🌍 Help ensure women’s voices are never forgotten
Women's History Scotland
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Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes. https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Honoured to give a keynote at @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference on 3 Sept. Will reflect on how @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary shaped my research since first visit in 1991 & will be sharing beginnings of project on history of @womensinstitute.bsky.social & its #environmental activism.
Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · last wk.🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social
REMINDER: the deadline for proposals is 4 September. We have some additional guidelines added to the call below: teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... #histSTM #envhist
Rebekah Higgitt@rhiggitt.bsky.social · 6mo agoCall for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
📣 Our Vice-convenor is delivering a Women's History Network seminar tomorrow at 4pm. Sign up details below!
Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d ago📣 Don't forget to sign up to our final Women's History Network Summer Seminar of 2026, happening tomorrow: '"The Miracle of the Nuclear Age" and the Electrical Association for Women' with Dr Eleanor Peters. ⏰ Tuesday 18th August, 4pm-5pm BST womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...
Out of the Shadows Currently on BBC Sounds: singer & storyteller Karine Polwart tells the story of how a crater on Mercury came to be named after the 18th-century Scottish poet & songwriter Carolina Oliphant 3/3 #C18 #C19 #poetry #song #romanticism #astronomy www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Seek the Light, Out of the Shadows
Musician Karine Polwart weaves together stories of science, history and the theme of light
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Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) was born #OTD, 16 Aug. Oliphant wrote over 100 popular songs to traditional Scottish tunes. Although she shunned publicity & never acknowledged her authorship, along with Robert Burns she is one of the most significant figures in Scottish #folksong #C18 1/3
Today is the 180th anniversary of Elsie Inglis's birth. She obtained the Triple Qualification in medicine in 1892, founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh, spoke at suffrage events organized by Milicent Fawcett, and during WWI created the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
📢 We’re sorry to announce that the Women's History in Scotland: Then and Now online conference planned for 18 September will no longer be going ahead. Instead, we’re planning an exciting programme of online showcase events, featuring the papers submitted by our speakers. Details to follow!
📢CFP for a workshop on women's professional networks in the early modern book trade!
Elise Watson@ewatson.bsky.social · 6d ago#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Looks like a fantastic hybrid event for anyone intersted in Scottish women's history/ nursing history/ suffrage!
Teresa Doherty@dohertyta.bsky.social · 6d agoThere are still FREE physical/online spaces available for this event in Edinburgh 20 Aug, 17:30-20:00 Great speakers with new stories about the fight for the vote 💙 #HistNursing #WomensHistory #Suffrage #Nursing @rcnhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
📢 Call for Papers: May be of interest to #HistNursing #HistMed communities 👇
Giorgia Tolfo@giorgiatolfo.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 Call for Papers: Talking Records: Spaces and Places of Care Join us at The National Archives, London, on 7 December 2026 for a symposium exploring histories of care, welfare, space and place through archival collections. Submission deadline: 18 September 2026 Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdf5bsee
The #Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival also offers a vast range of other drop-in activities that don't require booking, from peeks into historic buildings to community exhibitions and more... check out their full Festival Programme here 👉 www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk 💚 bsky.app/profile/gbpt...
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust@gbptrust.bsky.social · 2w ago⚡️ The Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival programme is now LIVE – and bookings are open! ⚡️ Discover Glasgow for free this September. Scotland's largest free heritage and community festival returns from 17–20 September 2026, inviting you to step – or wheel – behind the scenes of the city.
📜 New on the blog! Paul Sutherland explores a fascinating 1729 childbirth inquiry in the Kirk Session records, examining the testimony of local women. What is revealed about women’s knowledge, childbirth and midwifery in early 18th-century Scotland? 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/08/08/c...
“Cannot Affirm Any Thing”: Women’s Testimony and Childbirth at Chappellhill, 1729 – Women's History Scotland
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David Wojnarowicz exhibition at the Modern Institute, Glasgow. Wojnarowicz created queer art in New York in the 1970s and 80s. The exhibition has been rather wonderfully presented in a semi derelict and ravaged building.
Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid (1952-2009) - an Argentine-Scottish liberation / feminist theologian who worked in #Perth for a time. Wrote Indecent Theology. 1st female Prof of Theology at New College, Uni of Edinburgh and at the time only one at a Scottish university en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcell...
Marcella Althaus-Reid - Wikipedia
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We are looking for a Provenance Researcher to improve what the Museum knows about the Human Remains Collection. Full details on the role and how to apply can be found here: cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p... Applications close 14th of September.
The 77th Sachensymposion Conference is taking place at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social this year and is proudly sponsored by @socantscot.bsky.social. We are offering bursaries for students and ECRs to help with the costs of attending the conference. More info and apply now at scarf.scot/student-netw...
Registration now open for our Online Workshop Aug 24 Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE 17:30-19:00 Imogen Albiston George Higgins Andy Holroyde Joe Ryan-Hume www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join History Lab Plus Events Coming up . . . Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE | Online Workshop August 24, 17:30-19:00 Considering your career…
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📢 Applications are open for 11 AHRC-funded PhD projects through North-Sea Heritage in Transitions. 🚢 Projects span art history, visual arts and creative practice, with places available across four Scottish institutions. 🗓️ Closing date: 29 August 2026 🔗 Full details: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/discipl...
AHRC North-Sea Heritage in Transitions | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen
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The School of History offers a supportive and collaborative environment for early career scholars to develop their research careers. For those interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the School, our internal deadline is 5pm on 31 August 2026 (1/2)
Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026. @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Are you considering career options after a PhD in History or a related subject? Join @historylabplus.bsky.social colleagues for this session with a fantastic panel of History PhD graduates who have all taken their skills into a variety of areas beyond HE. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE
History Lab+ Training
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Our starter pack will connect you to some members of our HTEN community. We will add to this as colleagues join Bluesky. go.bsky.app/7CTVFdz #historyeducation #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
Two Orkney-led PhDs available as part of North Sea Heritage project
Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.
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🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social
WHN Annual Conference: Registrations now open!
The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Fr…
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Final call! We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is tomorrow, Friday 7 August
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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Feminist Friday Reel w/ Bailie Annette Christie
Here's what's on this August, Maryhillians! ☀️ A look at what we've got planned across both the Halls and The Whitehouse this month. Full details in the newsletter at this link: shorturl.at/xfkPZ
