📚 Book review:
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen

📚 Book review:
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
📚 Book review:
Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910, by Jungwon Kim, reviewed by Ksenia Chizhova
📚 Book review:
Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman, by Rachel E. Johnson, reviewed by Susanne M. Klausen
Delighted that my book, The Soldier's Reward, won the American Historical Association's Gershoy Award !
#skyhistorians, #Frenchhistory #AmericanHistoricalAssociation
Just getting this profile started with a Save the Date! The 21st Graduate Conference in European History will take place in Budapest, between April 14-16 2027 #skyhistorians
In this OA article, Paige Donaghy argues that historians can take up the framework of ‘obstetric violence’ to study past iterations of this form of gender violence.
In a new article, Veronika Faktorová and Václav Smyčka explore the complex processes that shaped the emergence and reception of women's literature in the Czech lands in the 1830s and 1840s.
Unfortunately this lecture has been cancelled. We will share news of the 2027 lecture in due course. #skyhistorians
The London Society for Medieval Studies term card is here! Booking will be available soon! @ihr.bsky.social
With speakers from @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@londonmedieval.bsky.social
#UKDisabilityHistoryMonth #skyhistorians #medieval
We are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026!
Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University)
"An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)
Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come)
This new OA article by Isobel Bloom examines Feminists for Life's rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s, drawing attention to the diversity of opinion within the anti-abortion movement.
📚 Book review:
Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945, by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, reviewed by Giselle Bernard
📚 Book review:
Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939 by Samuel Rutherford, reviewed by Dominic Janes
🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70030
#Skyhistorians, I could use help fact-checking. I think the only women in 17th-century English America who published *during their lifetimes* were Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson.
Am I right about this? Or was there anyone else?
Always reserve the right to change your mind
(National Archives Kew, Trinidad Despatches, 1823)
#skyhistorians
📚 Book review:
Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by Andrea Rottmann, reviewed by Cynthia Sadler
📚 Book review:
Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development From Nairobi by Sarah Bellows-Blakely, reviewed by Sacha Hepburn
Sarah Crook’s OA article examines ‘new feminism’ in 1990s Britain and its place within wider feminist conversations, political discourse and growing anxieties about masculinity, men and boys.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#SkyHistorians #BritishHistory #Feminism
Alexander Jin examines the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese “slave girls” in Progressive Era California, showing how they were positioned as racialized objects of rescue.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#SkyHistorians #CaliforniaHistory
This article by Huong T.M. Ngo examines how the "triple burden" imposed on Vietnamese women--production, combat, care--was deeply unequal, but also built the skills that carried some from underground organising to the Paris Peace Talks.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#SkyHistorians #Vietnam