Sara Sheridan
@sarasheridan.bsky.social
Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Toppings Edinburgh definitely has enough signed copies now.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Toppings Edinburgh definitely has enough signed copies now.
Speaking about Where are the Women at
@glasgowcc.bsky.social this afternoon and my God, the ceilings. ❤️
@glasgowcc.bsky.social this afternoon and my God, the ceilings. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Speaking about Where are the Women at
@glasgowcc.bsky.social this afternoon and my God, the ceilings. ❤️
@glasgowcc.bsky.social this afternoon and my God, the ceilings. ❤️
London. How though?
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
London. How though?
Bye bye Glasgow. London here I come.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Bye bye Glasgow. London here I come.
Launched a sneaky wee book of essays this week .... it's all on FB today: facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Launched a sneaky wee book of essays this week .... it's all on FB today: facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
Happy Aye Write opening night. I had front row seats to E S Thompson and Mairi Kidd discussing their latest books at
the Mitchell Library. I love hearing other writers talk about their work. These two had a cracking chat! ❤️📚
the Mitchell Library. I love hearing other writers talk about their work. These two had a cracking chat! ❤️📚
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy Aye Write opening night. I had front row seats to E S Thompson and Mairi Kidd discussing their latest books at
the Mitchell Library. I love hearing other writers talk about their work. These two had a cracking chat! ❤️📚
the Mitchell Library. I love hearing other writers talk about their work. These two had a cracking chat! ❤️📚
Never getting over the autumn leaves.p
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Never getting over the autumn leaves.p
Passionate about the Patriarchy this evening at
@edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.
@edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Passionate about the Patriarchy this evening at
@edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.
@edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.
A year this week since Mum died and I've long-posted on FB about missing her and how difficult it was to get writing again after a shock bereavement: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A year this week since Mum died and I've long-posted on FB about missing her and how difficult it was to get writing again after a shock bereavement: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
Treasures spotted today at Glasgow's newest bookshop - Chest Heart and Stroke on the Trongate. ❤️📚
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Treasures spotted today at Glasgow's newest bookshop - Chest Heart and Stroke on the Trongate. ❤️📚
Friday night, theatre night, ❤️
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Friday night, theatre night, ❤️
Date night last night was a proper 1982 New York old fashioned Chinese restaurant dinner with this sculpture of a dragon coming out the ceiling. Honest to God wild. Glasgow continues to surprise me.
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Date night last night was a proper 1982 New York old fashioned Chinese restaurant dinner with this sculpture of a dragon coming out the ceiling. Honest to God wild. Glasgow continues to surprise me.
Louisa Garret Anderson. The women are buried together & the tombstone reads 'We have been gloriously happy' but more than happy, they showed vision & determination at a time when there was serious opposition to women being doctors. Without them that fight wd not have been won /5
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Louisa Garret Anderson. The women are buried together & the tombstone reads 'We have been gloriously happy' but more than happy, they showed vision & determination at a time when there was serious opposition to women being doctors. Without them that fight wd not have been won /5
This is Flora Murray, from Dumfries, another early Edinburgh medical graduate who also got involved in setting up the London school & ran field hospitals during WW1. She wrote about the challenge of being taken seriously as an early female dr & was the life partner of ... /3
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is Flora Murray, from Dumfries, another early Edinburgh medical graduate who also got involved in setting up the London school & ran field hospitals during WW1. She wrote about the challenge of being taken seriously as an early female dr & was the life partner of ... /3
Next, the love of Sophia's life, Margaret Todd who wrote a novel (published under a pseudonym) about being a female medical student in the late 19th century. She helped Frederick Soddy name the 'isotope' and also wrote a biography about Sophia after her death /2
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Next, the love of Sophia's life, Margaret Todd who wrote a novel (published under a pseudonym) about being a female medical student in the late 19th century. She helped Frederick Soddy name the 'isotope' and also wrote a biography about Sophia after her death /2
Let's have a thread of Scotland's queer medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake trained at Edin Uni but wasn't allowed to graduate. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. What A Legend. #histmed #WomenInSTEM /1
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Let's have a thread of Scotland's queer medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake trained at Edin Uni but wasn't allowed to graduate. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. What A Legend. #histmed #WomenInSTEM /1
I'm dreaming of my TBR and the great books I'll get round to once I've finished the draft I'm working on. This one by
@victoriandetective.bsky.social is on top right now ...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social is on top right now ...
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm dreaming of my TBR and the great books I'll get round to once I've finished the draft I'm working on. This one by
@victoriandetective.bsky.social is on top right now ...
@victoriandetective.bsky.social is on top right now ...
The face of an author who was up half the night. Think I've caught a bug. Bed and as much writing as I can manage today, I guess.
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The face of an author who was up half the night. Think I've caught a bug. Bed and as much writing as I can manage today, I guess.
BONUS divisive Scottish woman: Quaker Eliza Wigham, anti-slavery campaigner who's been described as 1 of the 6 key women in the British Transatlantic anti-slavery sisterhood. They campaigned (against huge opposition) to free indentured workers in the US. Legend. So proud of her.
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
BONUS divisive Scottish woman: Quaker Eliza Wigham, anti-slavery campaigner who's been described as 1 of the 6 key women in the British Transatlantic anti-slavery sisterhood. They campaigned (against huge opposition) to free indentured workers in the US. Legend. So proud of her.
There's no progress w/out 'divisive' debate & indeed sometimes, action. Civilisations that don't have those debates & change accordingly die. And yes I wrote a book (of course I did) with all these amazing women & many more. 👉 historicenvironment.scot/archives-and... #Sheroes every one
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
There's no progress w/out 'divisive' debate & indeed sometimes, action. Civilisations that don't have those debates & change accordingly die. And yes I wrote a book (of course I did) with all these amazing women & many more. 👉 historicenvironment.scot/archives-and... #Sheroes every one
Public opinion was divided about the Rent Strike on Red Clydeside, fired by formidable quine, Mary Barbour, who encouraged tenants to pelt rent collectors with eggs and flour. Quite. Right. Condemnation of 'division' is naive. We need our difficult conversations. /6
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Public opinion was divided about the Rent Strike on Red Clydeside, fired by formidable quine, Mary Barbour, who encouraged tenants to pelt rent collectors with eggs and flour. Quite. Right. Condemnation of 'division' is naive. We need our difficult conversations. /6
Women in Scotland have always stood up for their views even when this wasn't the norm. In 1872, a group of domestic servants formed the Dundee and District Domestic Servants Assoc, the 1st assoc of its kind - a union for domestic staff. V divisive at the time. /5
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Women in Scotland have always stood up for their views even when this wasn't the norm. In 1872, a group of domestic servants formed the Dundee and District Domestic Servants Assoc, the 1st assoc of its kind - a union for domestic staff. V divisive at the time. /5
Jacobite women. Jacobitism v Hanoverianism was Civil War. These lasses busted ppl out of jail, misdirected armies, hid fleeing soldiers. So. Fucking. Divisive. Flora MacDonald got Bonnie Prince Charlie away, then fought for the British in the US. Division personified. /4
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Jacobite women. Jacobitism v Hanoverianism was Civil War. These lasses busted ppl out of jail, misdirected armies, hid fleeing soldiers. So. Fucking. Divisive. Flora MacDonald got Bonnie Prince Charlie away, then fought for the British in the US. Division personified. /4
Sophia Jex Blake who caused dreadful division in the medical community by seeking to become a doctor. Tut tut, Sophia. She was described by contemporary Elizabeth Blackwell as ‘a dangerous woman’ because of her steely determination to break down closed doors. She succeeded. /3
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Sophia Jex Blake who caused dreadful division in the medical community by seeking to become a doctor. Tut tut, Sophia. She was described by contemporary Elizabeth Blackwell as ‘a dangerous woman’ because of her steely determination to break down closed doors. She succeeded. /3
Next 1000s of Scottish suffragettes,criticised in their struggle for 'being divisive'. These women took militant action as well as raising petitions etc. My fave is Mary Maloney who followed Churchill round Dundee in 1908 ringing a bell because he wouldn't address the issue. /2
October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Next 1000s of Scottish suffragettes,criticised in their struggle for 'being divisive'. These women took militant action as well as raising petitions etc. My fave is Mary Maloney who followed Churchill round Dundee in 1908 ringing a bell because he wouldn't address the issue. /2