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Delighted to confirm the date for our ‘Women in Sport’ @whn_wm and @BritSportHisSoc conference @worcester_uni: Saturday, 6 November 2021. Please continue to send us your abstracts #twitterstorians #CFP #sport #women

Birmingham has a long history of groups & publications addressing #LGBTQ health & well-being issues, & the 1990s were a time of change with the repeal of Section 28, equalisation of age of consent & in1997 the emergence of #BirminghamPride #LGBTHM21 More: ow.ly/R8ou30ryaCk

The Oxford History Faculty Women's History Month Lecture, 2021 - on Oxford's first women students and teachers, and how we remember them. #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD2021 @OxfordHistory @WHN_WM

'Arts graduates are flexible': why humanities degrees are making a comeback theguardian.com/education/2021…

#OTD 16 Feb 1909 #suffragette Muriel Matters took to the air in a #dirigible over #London to leaflet state opening of Parliament with Votes for Women leaflets. Blow off course but made headlines around 🌍 Listen to her story here: bit.ly/3pO4qe0  bit.ly/39NOP8C

"Mystery House," inspired by Agatha Christie’s "And Then There Were None," was the brainchild of pioneering video game designer Roberta Williams, born #OTD in 1953. ow.ly/Qm7350DBGBo

High School writing competition. #InternationalWomensDay Personalities timeandtidemagazine.org/personalities-…

Research Fellow in Periodicals and Print Culture - Nottingham Trent University vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

New Podcast! Irish Revolutionary Women. @lizgillis191623 & @MaryMcAuliffe4 discuss women's role in 1916, the War of Independence & the Civil War #irishhistory #womenshistory irishhistoryshow.ie/76-irish-revol…

How women’s sport can prosper post-pandemic 5 predictions for women’s sport from NZ : the emergence of more player-led content, more collective action, different ownership models, athlete and team activism and a rise in long-term sponsorship deals. stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in…

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New tomorrow on @Playing_Pasts website @STEPHEN11981196 & @FionaSkillen [Welcome to #PlayingPasts Fiona] with Part 1 of - Women’s Football in Interwar #Scotland: Sadie Smith & the Legendary #Rutherglen Ladies FC #WomenInFootball @WomeninFootball @SFootballMuseum #Football

Excellent article on #womeninsports : 80% of female athletes say growth hindered during pandemic by inequalities with men's sport via @SkySports skysports.com/more-sports/ot…

RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference ruralwomensstudies.wordpress.com/2021/02/10/rws…

"A legend among pioneering women in the U.N., Snyder was traveling and speaking to promote the economic progress of women until her last years," @pass_blue reports: msmagazine.com/2021/02/03/res…

This month, interwar feminist organisation the Six Point Group celebrates its centenary - and together with The Women's Library @LSELibrary we're organising an online panel to celebrate!! 16 Feb, 3-4pm GMT - with @NadiaWhittomeMP and @felicia_willow timeandtidemagazine.org/agendas-for-ch…

And if you're interested in women during wartime, the DPM are hosting a conference. Details here: devilsporridge.org.uk/5262-2

ICYMI, I wrote a blog post all about women's football during WW1 and the Mossband Swifts (H.M. Factory Gretna's footy team!) #twitterstorians #WW1history #histgender @Devils_Porridge devilsporridge.org.uk/benditlikebella