After much deliberation and discussion, the committee have granted two bursary awards this year from a strong field of candidates. Many congratulations to both our winners: Dr Sheilagh Quaile, who is a recent PhD graduate from Queen’s University, Canada. Dr Quaile will use the bursary to present a paper at the North American Conference on …
We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of WHS Committee member Prof Deborah Simonton’s Gender in the European Town on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 2:30 GMT (3:30 CET, 4:30 EET). This event will be online via Zoom. Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across …
💫Sue Innes Memorial Lecture 2023💫Sat 28 Jan, 1-3pm in the Glasgow Women’s Library and online. Join us as we discuss art, embroidery and textiles with the talented artist, writer and curator Clare Hunter (@sewingmatters). This event is free and open to all. Sign up below. 🪡🧶🧵 In this lecture Clare will explore how the political, …
In our guest blog, Bill Marshall, tells us about Scottish writer Dorothy Dunnett as we approach the centenary of her birth next year From the 1960s to the turn of the century, everyone of importance in Scotland knew Dorothy Dunnett (1923 – 2001). She was not only a renowned writer of historical fiction, and a …
Dorothy Dunnett OBE – Scottish Renaissance Woman Read More »
Professors Sarah Pedersen and Peter Reid of Robert Gordon University are currently working on the construction of Quinepedia – a digital biographical dictionary focused on women in North-East Scotland. The project has been stimulated by recent discussions in the Aberdeen Press & Journal around the lack of memorials to any women other than Queen Victoria in Aberdeen [Lack of …
The Sue Innes Memorial Lecture is held annually in memory of Sue Innes, feminist historian, campaigner and journalist, who died in 2005. Sue was an enthusiastic member of Women’s History Scotland (then known as Scottish Women’s History Network). She was one of the editors of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, which is dedicated to her. Sue was a …
Sue Innes Memorial Lecture 2021, Thursday 9 December, 2021 9am (GMT) – Catch up now! Read More »
BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Time Travels’ series presented by the fantastic Sue Morrison and produced by Dr Louise Yeoman is back with the usual great line up of episodes looking at variety of aspects of Scottish history from the sex and the single girl to boys in trouble. The new series features a number of our Women’s …
