Rebecca Williamson
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
PhD @ University of Glasgow | historian of abortion and concealment of pregnancy in 19th c. Scotland | all views shared are my own and not those of the dog in my profile photo
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📣It's your FINAL chance to register for our FREE online ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 with some fantastic speakers. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #PolicyReform #Coercion #Diversity #PrivateSector
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Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform
This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
📣It's your FINAL chance to register for our FREE online ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 with some fantastic speakers. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #PolicyReform #Coercion #Diversity #PrivateSector
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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A tough, but necessary read.
Make no mistake, anti-abortion politics fail all pregnant women. These laws deprioritize and devalue the health of pregnant people, treating them more as vessels than full human beings. We CANNOT let them stand. https://bit.ly/3Nlxz0U
Make no mistake, anti-abortion politics fail all pregnant women. These laws deprioritize and devalue the health of pregnant people, treating them more as vessels than full human beings. We CANNOT let them stand. https://bit.ly/3Nlxz0U
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM
A tough, but necessary read.
Make no mistake, anti-abortion politics fail all pregnant women. These laws deprioritize and devalue the health of pregnant people, treating them more as vessels than full human beings. We CANNOT let them stand. https://bit.ly/3Nlxz0U
Make no mistake, anti-abortion politics fail all pregnant women. These laws deprioritize and devalue the health of pregnant people, treating them more as vessels than full human beings. We CANNOT let them stand. https://bit.ly/3Nlxz0U
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📣DEADLINE EXTENDED!
We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!
At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.
Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!
At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.
Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Conference
Visit the post for more.
socialhistory.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
📣DEADLINE EXTENDED!
We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!
At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.
Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!
At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.
Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
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It's here!
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
Issue 8: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century
Issue 8 of Romance, Revolution and Reform.
www.rrrjournal.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
It's here!
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
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Just three weeks to go until our conference!
If you've not done so already, you can sign up via the link below. Please email any queries to [email protected] 📩
If you've not done so already, you can sign up via the link below. Please email any queries to [email protected] 📩
We 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.
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.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Just three weeks to go until our conference!
If you've not done so already, you can sign up via the link below. Please email any queries to [email protected] 📩
If you've not done so already, you can sign up via the link below. Please email any queries to [email protected] 📩
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🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
January 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.
Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory
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A new podcast from @womenslibrary.bsky.social - reflecting on particular aspects of our work over the past 30+ years: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/18/g...
GWL at 30: Challenging Violence against Women | Glasgow Women's Library
In this podcast volunteers Amy, Niamh and Joy chat with Co-founder and Co-director Adele Patrick, BME Women’s Project Development Worker Syma Ahmed, and Librarian Wendy Kirk, about our approaches to…
womenslibrary.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
A new podcast from @womenslibrary.bsky.social - reflecting on particular aspects of our work over the past 30+ years: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/18/g...
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✨ Today’s the day! ✨
We’re so excited for the Women’s History Scotland 2025 Conference 🎉 A day dedicated to sharing research, stories, and conversations that highlight women’s voices across history
@ymcfadden.bsky.social @cheadletanya.bsky.social
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
#WomensHistoryScotland
We’re so excited for the Women’s History Scotland 2025 Conference 🎉 A day dedicated to sharing research, stories, and conversations that highlight women’s voices across history
@ymcfadden.bsky.social @cheadletanya.bsky.social
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
#WomensHistoryScotland
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
✨ Today’s the day! ✨
We’re so excited for the Women’s History Scotland 2025 Conference 🎉 A day dedicated to sharing research, stories, and conversations that highlight women’s voices across history
@ymcfadden.bsky.social @cheadletanya.bsky.social
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
#WomensHistoryScotland
We’re so excited for the Women’s History Scotland 2025 Conference 🎉 A day dedicated to sharing research, stories, and conversations that highlight women’s voices across history
@ymcfadden.bsky.social @cheadletanya.bsky.social
@rlwilliamson.bsky.social
#WomensHistoryScotland
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📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Buy tickets – Women’s History Scotland Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland – Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
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The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-202…
womenshistorynetwork.org
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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📣 Call for Papers!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📣 Call for Papers!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
If you’re Glasgow-based and care about access to safe and supported experiences of pregnancy/birth/early parenthood then please consider volunteering with Amma!
I completed my birth companion training with them earlier this year and it’s been incredible.
ammabirthcompanions.org/volunteering...
I completed my birth companion training with them earlier this year and it’s been incredible.
ammabirthcompanions.org/volunteering...
Volunteer with Amma
Volunteering with Amma Birth Companions is an incredible way to support women and birthing people in Glasgow who would otherwise give birth alone. We provide care, information, and advocacy to ensure ...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you’re Glasgow-based and care about access to safe and supported experiences of pregnancy/birth/early parenthood then please consider volunteering with Amma!
I completed my birth companion training with them earlier this year and it’s been incredible.
ammabirthcompanions.org/volunteering...
I completed my birth companion training with them earlier this year and it’s been incredible.
ammabirthcompanions.org/volunteering...
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‘Before October 2023, two women per year died in childbirth in Gaza; now the number is at least five per month. There is no water, no sanitation. Rats are everywhere.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
‘Before October 2023, two women per year died in childbirth in Gaza; now the number is at least five per month. There is no water, no sanitation. Rats are everywhere.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
May 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
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Today MPs will debate e-petition 700014 on decriminalising abortion
This petition, which has over 103,000 signatures, states: “I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.”
Starts at 4:30pm
This petition, which has over 103,000 signatures, states: “I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.”
Starts at 4:30pm
June 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today MPs will debate e-petition 700014 on decriminalising abortion
This petition, which has over 103,000 signatures, states: “I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.”
Starts at 4:30pm
This petition, which has over 103,000 signatures, states: “I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.”
Starts at 4:30pm
🚨 CfP alert 🚨
This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with other historians of gender in Scotland! Share with colleagues, students, friends (or anyone who might listen).
This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with other historians of gender in Scotland! Share with colleagues, students, friends (or anyone who might listen).
📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🚨 CfP alert 🚨
This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with other historians of gender in Scotland! Share with colleagues, students, friends (or anyone who might listen).
This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with other historians of gender in Scotland! Share with colleagues, students, friends (or anyone who might listen).
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📢 WHS Research Bursary!
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding
WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
📢 WHS Research Bursary!
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding
Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31st May
🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding