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Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

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🌈📢 Celebrating LGBT+ History Month! Here’s a blog from our archive highlighting the overlooked lives of lesbian and bisexual women in Scottish history and the challenges of uncovering their stories womenshistoryscotland.org/2023/06/23/r... #LGBTQHistoryMonth #LesbianHistory #BisexualHistory

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📢 Join Women's History Scotland for exclusive online member's socials! 💡 Talks & discussions 📚 Fun activities & quizzes 🍽 Our next social explores cookbooks as historical sources with @drlindsaymiddleton.bsky.social Let's explore women’s stories together! womenshistoryscotland.org/news-and-eve...

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Women's History Scotland are migrating to Bluesky - we are so excited to grow in this new space! We'll be creating and sharing content dedicated to celebrating and exploring histories of gender and women in Scotland. Join us for the journey! #WomensHistory #HerStory #GenderHist #Scotland

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Calling volunteers, staff or those interested in learning the basics of conservation and care for historical collections! Join us in Inverness for Essentials of Collection Care for Community Archive Heritage Groups! Book your free space via Eventbrite:

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Join us for the Post-1800 and Contemporary British Society & Culture Doctoral Open Day on Friday 14 March: - Discover our rich collections - Connect with our expert curatorial teams - Expand your network with like-minded researchers Book your place: bit.ly/BLPhDOpenDay...

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Spaces are still available on this year's #ScottishArchivesDay event. This is your chance to find out more about the @ScotsArchives Your Scottish Archives Portal. For more info and to book your ticket please see: www.archives.org.uk/training-eve...

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Discover the untold stories of women this #ScottishFamilyHistoryMonth! Sue Royal's latest blog explores the challenges and rewards of uncovering women’s histories in her family research. 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/02/16/s... #WomensHistory #Scotland

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📣Applications to our Public History Prize are open! The Pamela Cox Public History Prize (open to PGRs and ECRs) recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history✨ 👉More info & apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/publi... ⏰Deadline 24 March 2025 🗃️

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🚨 Now Accepting Submissions! Women's History Scotland Leah Leneman Essay Prize 🎉 Submit your essay on women's or gender history to win £200. Open to students & independent scholars—focused on any period or place. 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScottishHistory

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Looking forward to this fabulous #InternationalWomensDay event at Civic Hall #Perth on 8 March. Organised by the #Soroptimists, the line-up includes 'me' speaking about #PerthWomenOnWikipedia 🙌 Book now - your free ticket includes lunch!

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UNESCO Week of Sound @weekofsound.bsky.social: Come & learn Gaelic stories and songs of the sea with Margaret Bennett. Free workshop - 2.30pm, Wednesday 19 February, St Cecilia’s Hall – free & open to all: digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/... 📸: Samuel Scrimshaw, Unsplash

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@iashedinburgh.bsky.social brings you this year's International Women's Day Lecture, delivered by Naeema Yaqoob Sajid: ‘Only a day, a theme and an initiative?’ 🎫 free tickets 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-univer...

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📣It's #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Explore Eleanor Gillespie's blog on the scientific contributions of Maria Graham and Marian Farquharson - 19th century women in science 🔬 #WomenInScience #STEMHistory ➡️ womenshistoryscotland.org/2024/07/26/n...

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📻✨ Celebrate World Radio Day by exploring the early days of women's broadcasting with the BBC's Women's Hour from 1923-4. Discover the pioneering efforts that brought women's voices to the airwaves. womenshistorynetwork.org/early-radio-... #WorldRadioDay #WomensHistory #RadioHistory

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For World Radio Day, learn about Dina Dobson, a pioneering archaeologist, educator, and radio broadcaster. Discover her remarkable contributions to British archaeology and BBC radio. Read more here: womenshistorynetwork.org/resurrecting... #WorldRadioDay #WomensHistory #RadioHistory

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For #WomeninScienceDay, here's a listicle of women linked to @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social collections and stories #histstm www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

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History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our 4th online session on the 4 March will focus on Podcasting for Historians with @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @deannalyncook.bsky.social, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, Samuel Hume and Izzy Conn. www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...

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The @womenslibrary.bsky.social Spring Programme is out and is amazing. Find out more, download a PDF copy of the programme, or pick one up from Glasgow Women's Library: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/07/s...

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Only five days left to get the application form for the Anna Parnell Travel Grant in.

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The aim of the WHN’s 33rd annual conference is to explore & celebrate the challenges & opportunities of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections. See the call for papers here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #CPF

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So happy to share that we'll be running a Wikipedia workshop in AK Bell library on 8 March - International Women's Day. Free but booking essential as places are limited. No editing experience needed but tablet / laptop will be handy #IWD2025 #PerthScotland www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/wom...

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On 7 February 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes was expelled from the Women's Social and Political Union after disagreements. Find out more about the ELFS on the blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-splendid... #OTD #WomensHistory

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For #NationalStorytellingWeek we have dipped into our blog archive to promote the life and achievements of Dorothy Dunnett, a renowned Scottish historical novelist, painter, and sculptor. Explore her lasting impact on Scottish cultural heritage here! ➡️https://tinyurl.com/46ka9cue

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We’re putting together an Irish Women’s and Gender History starter pack. It’s very much a work in progress as we figure out who is here! go.bsky.app/Bk1ULub

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On the blog, read about the Women’s Social and Political Union in Ireland by Katie Barclay. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-socia... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

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📣 New Blog Post! Take a journey through Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Reading Between the Lines: Embroidered Samplers exhibition. Discover women's stories through beautifully stitched pieces🧵 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4b2vju #AberdeenArtGallery #EmbroideredSamplers #TextileHistory #HiddenStories

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CFP deadline extended to Feb 7! There’s still time to submit an abstract for Material Scotland. Abstracts of 200 words and bios of 50 words can be sent to me at [email protected] See post below for more details.

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📢 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

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Such a privilege to work with @womensinstitute.bsky.social SIGBI (Ireland & England), Irish Country Women's Association (ICA) & WI of Northern Ireland. And with fab core team @annefhlogan.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @racheljcollett.bsky.social & Anna Muggeridge ❤️. #womensgrassrootsactivism

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Plaque in the lobby of Perth Theatre remembering Marjorie Dence, MBE, the first woman to own a theatre in #Scotland. When she died in 1966 she left the theatre to the people of #Perth #PerthWomenOnWikipedia added a photo of the plaque to her Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjori...

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To celebrate #BurnsNight delve into the rich world of traditional Scottish songs and stories! 🎶 Last January we featured an illuminating guest blog by Lainey Dempsey, a Glasgow-based singer whose debut album ‘Letle Telt’ is inspired by traditional singing. Read more here ➡️ tinyurl.com/29nntz7p

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📢New Women's History Scotland Blog Post! Explore the complex history of Glasgow's Lock Hospitals, institutions aimed at "unfortunate females." Anna Forrest delves into their role, societal impact, and the lives of women affected. Read the full story ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3a7jffp4

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Any folx in Fife who could support @scotsuffragette.bsky.social and the students of Inverkeithing High School to name their new school after local suffragette and working class heroine Janet McCallum?

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Delighted to be speaking at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on 14 Feb about my grandmother. Thanks to @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for the invite & opportunity to think more on family history & how photographs change what we know, or don't know, about past lives. www.eventbrite.ie/e/photograph...

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My lecture at Farnborough next month, about the Royal Aircraft Establishment women. It would be lovely to see some of you IRL. airsciences.org.uk/FAST-Talk_25...

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🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟 Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices. womenshistoryscotland.org #WomensHistory

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