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
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
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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
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Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
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Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays.
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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
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giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
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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.
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.
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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- 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.
Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott , and 20 more Brigitte Nerlich, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Tom Shakespeare, Leigh Sparks, Elizabeth Stokoe, Peter Holmes, Lynn Abrams, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Sabine Pahl, Alan Lester, Stephen Ryan, Michael H. Whitworth, Glen O’Hara, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Jon R. Stone, Tom Rutter, Sue Timmis, Alan McNally, Alexander Woywodt, Pam Jarvis, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, Nathan P. Kalmoe
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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@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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Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lynn Abrams, Catriona Seth
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p... #skystorians 🗃️#medicalhistory #archivists
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