Cordelia Beattie
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
hca.ed.ac.uk
Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
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House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.
BBC Parliament - Select Committees
Coverage of select committee proceedings at the Palace of Westminster.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.
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Scotland's first ‘Stolperstein’ memorial for a Scottish Holocaust victim has been unveiled in Edinburgh to Jane Haining who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Thanks to Haining family, faith leaders, civic representatives, diplomats and all who attended. #Stolperstein
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Scotland's first ‘Stolperstein’ memorial for a Scottish Holocaust victim has been unveiled in Edinburgh to Jane Haining who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Thanks to Haining family, faith leaders, civic representatives, diplomats and all who attended. #Stolperstein
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
events.teams.microsoft.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
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📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
October 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy
Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...
historyandpolicy.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
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We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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Don't cross the picket line!
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Don't cross the picket line!
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
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"Edinburgh university staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts"
Edinburgh university staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts
Members of the UCU union walked out in the first of three days of strikes over proposed cuts and the threat of compulsory redundancies.
bbc.in
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"Edinburgh university staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts"
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This explains why British Library staff are on strike
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This explains why British Library staff are on strike
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
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There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies
Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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Not to mention the effects of 2 local universities making staff redundant, closing taught programmes and reducing their research and civic engagement capacities (in response to government policies).
‘I think the city is falling apart’: Leicester braces for a make-or-break budget
‘I think the city is falling apart’: Leicester braces for a make-or-break budget
In the local authority where people have the least spare cash there are hopes the chancellor will instil change
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Not to mention the effects of 2 local universities making staff redundant, closing taught programmes and reducing their research and civic engagement capacities (in response to government policies).
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A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
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Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.
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It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
Early Career Researcher Network: key information for ECRs
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
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"Medieval women's legacies live on in Britain's towns and cities"
In a short article for 'The Conversation' historian Rachel Delman explores some of the legacies of Medieval women that are still extant on these islands today
She includes Edinburgh's Magdalen Chapel and the Trinity Apse as examples
In a short article for 'The Conversation' historian Rachel Delman explores some of the legacies of Medieval women that are still extant on these islands today
She includes Edinburgh's Magdalen Chapel and the Trinity Apse as examples
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Medieval women's legacies live on in Britain's towns and cities"
In a short article for 'The Conversation' historian Rachel Delman explores some of the legacies of Medieval women that are still extant on these islands today
She includes Edinburgh's Magdalen Chapel and the Trinity Apse as examples
In a short article for 'The Conversation' historian Rachel Delman explores some of the legacies of Medieval women that are still extant on these islands today
She includes Edinburgh's Magdalen Chapel and the Trinity Apse as examples
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Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
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Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social and I are delighted to see Husseina Dinani's @genderandhistory.bsky.social article out investigating Ithna Asheri girls experiences of school in Dar es Salaam c.1980s-2000s🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Being Ithna Asheri: Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Girls, the International School of Tanganyika and Segregation in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This study examines segregation in postcolonial Dar es Salaam through the lens of girlhood by focusing on Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri (Ithna Asheri) women's experiences of being students at the city's mo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social and I are delighted to see Husseina Dinani's @genderandhistory.bsky.social article out investigating Ithna Asheri girls experiences of school in Dar es Salaam c.1980s-2000s🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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And also Early View from @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & my Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social, Meghan Healy-Clancy explores the life of South African activist Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981) doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Gendering a Public Educational Campaign Against Leprosy in the US‐Occupied Philippines, 1928–1929
The gendered nature of anti-leprosy campaigns in the colonial Philippines remains understudied in historical scholarship. Through the lens of gender, this article examines an educational campaign (19...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And also Early View from @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & my Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social, Meghan Healy-Clancy explores the life of South African activist Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981) doi.org/10.1111/1468...