📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website:

Excellent funding opportunity from @WSGUK - applications open now!

#Frankenstein hits Netflix today. To mark the moment, we’re sharing a free talk with Visiting Fellow Dr Virlana Shchuka on a little-known Gothic tale in our collection. A scientist, a tomb, and an experiment that unleashes a monster Watch here: https://t.co/Ou1ANNMsvO

One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell her story in Voices of Thunder

Subjects covered in our seminar this weekend @FoundlingMuseum include Anna of Denmark, Margaret Cavendish and Elizabeth Inchbald. Full details including abstracts are on our website: https://t.co/Vh8gWfD4Es 2/

It's this weekend! Our seminar series begins this Saturday afternoon, 4 October, in London. Come and join us - you'll receive a warm welcome and enjoy 3 great papers from Julia Hamilton, Pilar Botías Domínguez and Gillian Williamson @GeorgianFun 1/

We have so much news to share, but first and foremost - our new seminar series kicks off on the 4 October! We'll be at our usual venue at The Foundling Museum with some amazing speakers. Please share:

WSG member Karen Hearn is taking part in the George Villiers Study Day at Melton Carnegie Museum this Thursday 18 September. She will be one of five leading authors & academics discussing the eventful life & portraiture of the 1st Duke of Buckingham.

Did you know that over half of all publications by women between around 1650 and 1690 were prophecies? We need a new approach to women’s literary history 📚 #womenswriting #womenshistory

So looking forward to the book launch for this fantastic edition of Margaret Tudor’s letters tomorrow—Helen Newsome Chandler & I will be ‘in conversation about the book and what Margaret’s correspondence reveals about her life & the practice of queenship 👸 https://t.co/wD6qFiu47I

CFP: ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ (Deadline: 22 September 2025) https://t.co/7vaaECCtkO @RRRJournal

24 Aug 1556: b. Sophia Brahe, astronomer, genealogist, scholar in several disciplines. Sister of Tycho, she worked closely with him in his observatory of Uranienborg.

#CFP for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, on the theme of Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern at Queen Mary University of London Please share widely #nuntastic #catholichistory https://t.co/Gj5O2O08JD

Excited to share the first volume in a new series from @Brepols on #courtstudies, organised by Fabian Persson and me. Many chapters about wives, siblings and bastards!

A treat in the post today: paperback edition of the award-winning, three-volume The Cambridge History of the Gothic, co-edited with Angela Wright and Dale Townshend.

Thrilled that the audiobook of #WildforAusten (out 9/2) will be narrated by award-winning @marisacalin ! Calin's voice is enchanting & mellifluous, with just the right amount of humor & sass. Grateful this #JaneAusten book has such a perfect-fit narrator.

This CFP looks great - deadline for abstracts is 22 September.

Visiting @thejohnrylands today to look at a manuscript which contains two very early English conversion narratives - both dating to the 1630s and both written by women! VOICES OF THUNDER begins with the remarkable story of Rose Thurgood, one of these women #earlymodern

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern