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The Welfare, Citizenship, and Intersectional Feminism Project
@wcifproject.bsky.social
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The WCIF history project foregrounds intersectional feminist responses to welfare disparities that impact Black & South Asian women. University of Bristol.
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andrewharrop.bsky.social
I missed this last week. The new English index of income deprivation includes UC working households who are on low-incomes AFTER HOUSING COSTS.

This is a big deal technically & means we now have a hyper local measure of LIVING STANDARDS not just incomes.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
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November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows
Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows
Analysis of England and Wales units also finds 63% higher risk to babies whose mothers live in most deprived areas Babies born to black mothers in England and Wales and those from the most deprived areas are significantly more likely to die while in neonatal units, according to analysis revealing the “deeply concerning” figures. The study, led by academics at the University of Liverpool, examined data on more than 700,000 babies admitted to an NHS neonatal unit across England and Wales between 2012 and 2022. Continue reading...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
I love this quote. If you haven’t yet, go and see the #ArtInNursing exhibition at the @rcnlibraries.bsky.social It’s sooooo good 😊
Speech bubble ‘there’s been an outbreak of radical feminism in the nurses’ home’
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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himalmag.bsky.social
From June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire.
A review essay by @SohelS28:
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The incomplete histories of women migrant caregivers under the British Empire
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
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August 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for our ‘New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories’ Roundtable Event!
Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia …
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October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
wcifproject.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Eugenia for a brilliant paper yesterday!
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social
📢 call for papers update 📢

This conference has a very flexible approach to periodisation and historical understandings of ‘the modern’.

We welcome all papers that engage with motherhood in the 19th, 20th and 21st century so make sure to send us your abstracts before 1 November!
voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · Sep 24
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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wcifproject.bsky.social
Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social
Free Creative Writing Workshop with the talented author, poet, teacher Kat François.

Sat, 1 November at Marcus Garvey Library, Tottenham N15 4JA

Celebrate Black History Month and stories of local Black activism.

With Haringey Culture and Communities Team.

Email: info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, read about Caribbean women’s powerful role in the Ethiopian solidarity campaign of the 1930s.

Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity.

womenshistorynetwork.org/caribbean-wo...

#BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Caribbean Women and the Ethiopian Solidarity Campaign by Kesewa John
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we commissioned a ‘long read’ from the fabulous Kesewa John. Enjoy! The sovereignty of Ethiopia was compromised from November 1934, when…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
wcifproject.bsky.social
Stella Dadzie will be giving a guest lecture on Thursday 27th November! She will also be signing copies of her new book! Please join us - all welcome!
October 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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aaronreeves.bsky.social
If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
www.lse.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.

⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus
🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory
50 years on: Caribbean women and the Chapeltown bonfire night incident 1975
Marking 50 years since the Bonfire Twelve, this talk explores the women's role in resisting racism and injustice in Leeds.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
wcifproject.bsky.social
Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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caitbeaumont.bsky.social
#EverydayWelfare co-ed collection by @ruthdav.bsky.social @evecolpus.bsky.social & me offers a renewed & revised history of welfare in modern Britain by focussing on how people sought to 'fare well'. Fully #OA join the 20k who have already taken a look. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
September 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
The doomscroll of the neoliberal condition narrates history as a series of wins and losses.

Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive offers an intervention in the neoliberal landscape:
YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
kthabitproject.bsky.social Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...
Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation
The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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remakingbritain.bsky.social
We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed
Project Collection | South Asian Britain
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September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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thesociologicalreview.org
#ICYMI: Writing About Activists, our recent Conversations series event chaired by
@academicdiary.bsky.social and featuring scholars Hannah Ishmael, John Narayan and A.S. Francis.

🎥 VIDEO buff.ly/o11njAN

🎧 Listen to our new #podcast mini-series Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism buff.ly/EUCdEHZ
August 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
#OTD 20 August 1976, a group of mainly South Asian workers led by Jayaben Desai, walked out in protest against their treatment at the Grunwick photo processing factory. The dispute became a critical moment for trade unionism and social change.
#GenderHist
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Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick dispute
In August 1976, a group of migrant workers led by Jayaben Desai walked out of the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory in the London Borough of Brent. Taking a stand against racism, low pay and limited...
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August 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland.

Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.

Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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sibristol.bsky.social
On #WorldHumanitarianDay we focus on the importance of strengthening global solidarity & the empowerment of local communities. This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing challenges faced by millions around the world and the collective responsibility to address them. #SoroptimistBristol #solidarity
August 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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uofgsociology.bsky.social
Thinking about the possibility of setting up a sociologically informed podcast? Here's a chance to get some guidance about how best to go about doing that, thanks to @thesociologicalreview.org
Introduction to Podcasting
The Sociological Review Foundation’s Introduction to Podcasting workshop be will held on 17 November 2025 and will offer academics practical training in creating, producing, and launching impactful po...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM