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Lynn Abrams
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Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit

Lynn Abrams is a historian and Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, and a Fellow of the British Academy (2018). She is Chair in Modern History at the University of Glasgow, where her research and teaching interests include the history of women and gender relations in Britain, and oral history. .. more

Political science 36%
History 31%
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?

Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
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Fewer!
A twofold plight: for researchers and for Library staff (some of whom are also researchers). Past time for DCMS to take note.
New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb

Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.

Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...
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Picked this up last week. You know your future uni is perfect for you when they have a bangin’ knitting book. These are on my knit list:

This is very bad for access in my local town which needs this provision not to mention the jobs lost. The fact that an institution like this is reliant on overseas student fees is mad.
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com

Excited to announce this is in production. A Fleece to Fashion tour of Scotland’s famous knitting sector taking in hand and machine, local and global, making, design, marketing and more. And it will be Open Access with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft and Industry
Buy Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft and Industry by Lynn Abrams, Sally Tuckett, Marina Moskowitz, Roslyn Chapman (ISBN: 9781350361713) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com

Loved first series but it deteriorated and the last season was dreadful

I’m shocked!
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
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Conference
Visit the post for more.
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fancy! And so very Glasgow...

Winter Graduations are upon us @uofglasgow.bsky.social and what better graduation gift than Glasgow University Knits available to order online www.universityofglasgowshops.com/collections/...
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.

Well this book has had a presence in our household for a long time but it’s finally published! Hurrah! Congratulations to my other half 🍾⭐️
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…
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#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
📣 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...
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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The BBC is a publicly funded service. Its archive should be open to anyone and researchers should not be beholden to the bbc to choose what we see. And not on only 2 days a week either.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
100 Women's Rights Organisations, including
@rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction.

They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform
‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform
Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action
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Project Records Assistant 'to support a major records rationalisation project within our Heritage Department'-
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p... #skystorians 🗃️#medicalhistory #archivists
Project Records Assistant
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Project Records Assistant to support a major records rationalisation project within our Heritage Depart
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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