Sarah Knott
@sarahknott.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
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Sarah Knott
@sarahknott.bsky.social
· Feb 7
Centre for Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories
WGQ is a thriving community of students and scholars engaged in research on gender, class and identity and the broad area of emotions, psychology and subjectivity.
www.history.ox.ac.uk
The Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Histories @ox.ac.uk has a new website and a shorter title (WGQ). It's necessary times for historicizing work www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w... #skyhistorians @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November
What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November
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Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
My wonderful new Oxford colleague, queer US historian Mori Reithmayr, is giving a paper in London on 13th Nov on the invention of gay community: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Invention of Gay Community, 1953-1969
Norther American History Seminar- Session 2
www.history.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My wonderful new Oxford colleague, queer US historian Mori Reithmayr, is giving a paper in London on 13th Nov on the invention of gay community: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!
'If unions sought to get power for waged workers within capitalism, Wages for Housework aimed to end the unwaged work on which capitalism tacitly relied'
Sarah Knott: The economy relies on unpaid caregiving
Sarah Knott: The economy relies on unpaid caregiving
A woman’s lot
www.the-tls.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!
FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...
Updates from the project – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...
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If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.
It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
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It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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September 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus
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We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
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I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:
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Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
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University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum
Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum
Job (US): The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialty in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172309?fbcli...
Apply - Interfolio
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September 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Job (US): The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialty in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172309?fbcli...
POSTDOC for early modern lit folks, 4 years, my lovely college in Oxford which is full of other marvellous postdocs. Recommend wholeheartedly. Also see the cute @stjohnsox.bsky.social video (think airline style) at the link www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR859/c...
Career Development Research Fellowships 2026 at St John's College, Oxford
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
POSTDOC for early modern lit folks, 4 years, my lovely college in Oxford which is full of other marvellous postdocs. Recommend wholeheartedly. Also see the cute @stjohnsox.bsky.social video (think airline style) at the link www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR859/c...
Good university news in dark times: new interdisciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality beginning at University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Good university news in dark times: new interdisciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality beginning at University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
"Trans history enjoys the luxury of disbelief.... Fortunately, this rigour will inevitably come to be shared, as the entanglement of cisness and transness becomes impossible to ignore." Compelling contribution taking Byzantium as case in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium*
Abstract. This article uses case studies from Byzantium to demonstrate a new trans framework for gendered historical analysis that recognizes identity as b
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September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Trans history enjoys the luxury of disbelief.... Fortunately, this rigour will inevitably come to be shared, as the entanglement of cisness and transness becomes impossible to ignore." Compelling contribution taking Byzantium as case in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...
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Out now!
In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities.
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In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Out now!
In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
NTT Digital Historian post at the wonderful Kinsey Institute. I can testify to how remarkable are the collections, the staff and the visiting researchers, who do their work despite all the ... despites. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30408
(Visiting) Digital Librarian
The Kinsey Institute houses one of the world’s most comprehensive research collections on human sexuality and relationships, encompassing over 700,000 items spanning more than 2,000 years of human his...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NTT Digital Historian post at the wonderful Kinsey Institute. I can testify to how remarkable are the collections, the staff and the visiting researchers, who do their work despite all the ... despites. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30408
Timeline cleanse for anyone who annotates or teaches books. Terry Gross on how she marks up her hardbacks
August 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Timeline cleanse for anyone who annotates or teaches books. Terry Gross on how she marks up her hardbacks
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Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
August 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
RIP the salty and magnificent Patrick Handscombe, who among all these other things, read History as an undergraduate and loved to talk books. His queer, talkative, Essex and Spitalfields worlds opened out my life spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/01/s...
So Long, Paddy Handscombe | Spitalfields Life
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August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
RIP the salty and magnificent Patrick Handscombe, who among all these other things, read History as an undergraduate and loved to talk books. His queer, talkative, Essex and Spitalfields worlds opened out my life spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/01/s...
Congrats to all those awarded visiting Bodleian Library fellowships for 25-26, especially the Ann Bodley Fellowship in Women's History #bodleian #WGQ www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
2025–26 Awarded Visiting Fellowships
Awarded Visiting Fellowships for the Bodleian Libraries, 2025-26
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Congrats to all those awarded visiting Bodleian Library fellowships for 25-26, especially the Ann Bodley Fellowship in Women's History #bodleian #WGQ www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Modern Americanists! Here's a 12 month post outside the US, here in Oxford. Short deadline with interviews in mid-Aug
We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August).
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Modern Americanists! Here's a 12 month post outside the US, here in Oxford. Short deadline with interviews in mid-Aug
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....