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June 2014 – Guest Blogger Esther Breitenbach

Esther Breitenbach is a committee member of Women’s History Scotland, and has written widely about the lives of women in Scotland, both from the perspective of contemporary politics and policy and on historical themes. She is co-editor, with Linda Fleming, S. Karly Kehoe and Lesley Orr, of Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914 (Edinburgh University …

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WHS Conference 2014 – Gender, Fitness and Sport

The Call for Papers for the Annual Conference is now released. The theme of the conference is Gender, Fitness and Sport. The conference will be held at the University of Abertay, Dundee on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of September 2014. Professor Charlotte Macdonald has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the Sue Innes …

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March 2014 – Guest Blogger Elizabeth Ritchie

This month we hear from Elizabeth Ritchie who lectures at the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-history/ Her particular interest is the social and cultural history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Highlands although she has recently been working on a project about Scottish emigrant women in rural …

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Happy Women’s History Month!

Happy Women’s History Month to all members and potential members of Women’s History Scotland! We hope you have a great month filled with exciting events on women’s history (plug: see the Dundee Women’s Festival, the Dundee Science Festival for info!) and with great bounds forward in women’s history research!