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Sarah Knott

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Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Feb 7

The Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Histories @ox.ac.uk has a new website and a shorter title (WGQ). It's necessary times for historicizing work www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w... #skyhistorians @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Centre for Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories

WGQ is a thriving community of students and scholars engaged in research on gender, class and identity and the broad area of emotions, psychology and subjectivity.

www.history.ox.ac.uk

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 10d

For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!

The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 15d

'If unions sought to get power for waged workers within capitalism, Wages for Housework aimed to end the unwaged work on which capitalism tacitly relied'

Sarah Knott: The economy relies on unpaid caregiving

A woman’s lot

www.the-tls.com

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for reporting in safe, Seth

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 14d

FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

Updates from the project – Voices of Motherhood

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14d

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck

Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 15d

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 16d

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 15d

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15d

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 16d

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 17d

Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum

National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · 17d

Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 19d

Yes. I did write an immediate reply, fwiw

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 20d

Job (US): The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialty in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172309?fbcli...

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 21d

So pretty!

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 22d

Not here! But the peaches are still peachy even if there’s no more, well, y’know

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 22d

POSTDOC for early modern lit folks, 4 years, my lovely college in Oxford which is full of other marvellous postdocs. Recommend wholeheartedly. Also see the cute @stjohnsox.bsky.social video (think airline style) at the link www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR859/c...

Career Development Research Fellowships 2026 at St John's College, Oxford

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 22d

Good university news in dark times: new interdisciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality beginning at University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 24d

My dad was one of those East End kids who threw stones at Mosley’s Blackshirts. I understand the normalization of violence in US (Kirk’s death was the 48th at a school or uni this year) but not at home.

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Trans history enjoys the luxury of disbelief.... Fortunately, this rigour will inevitably come to be shared, as the entanglement of cisness and transness becomes impossible to ignore." Compelling contribution taking Byzantium as case in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium*

Abstract. This article uses case studies from Byzantium to demonstrate a new trans framework for gendered historical analysis that recognizes identity as b

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · Aug 30

Out now!
In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would like to read this essay. And I think scholars and editors continue to be invested in a wider world of knowledge-making

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Aug 21

NTT Digital Historian post at the wonderful Kinsey Institute. I can testify to how remarkable are the collections, the staff and the visiting researchers, who do their work despite all the ... despites. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30408

(Visiting) Digital Librarian

The Kinsey Institute houses one of the world’s most comprehensive research collections on human sexuality and relationships, encompassing over 700,000 items spanning more than 2,000 years of human his...

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Aug 17

Timeline cleanse for anyone who annotates or teaches books. Terry Gross on how she marks up her hardbacks

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Aug 5

RIP the salty and magnificent Patrick Handscombe, who among all these other things, read History as an undergraduate and loved to talk books. His queer, talkative, Essex and Spitalfields worlds opened out my life spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/01/s...

So Long, Paddy Handscombe | Spitalfields Life

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Jul 28

How good of you to think of me! Yes

Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Jul 22

Yes! Completed it on the train two days ago. So good. Then read The Safekeep, which is also full of good sentences