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Sarah Knott

@sarahknott.bsky.social
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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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The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join us online or in person next week for our upcoming lecture with Professor Matt Cook from @ox.ac.uk @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Details and sign up at: knsy.in/AlbertQuint
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The Bad Habits of Albert Quint: Queer Labor and Everyday Lives with Author Matthew Cook
Kinsey Institute Guest Lecture Wednesday, September 23 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM In-Person, Lindley Hall 328 (Register below) On...
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes Tony reminds me of my dad (minus the affairs). #70Up
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New job: LGBTQ+ History Brown University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70387
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
JOB. York University Humanities Department Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities www.academicwork.ca/jobs/asst-pr...
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Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📆EVENT 16 Sep 6-8pm Women Making It with Glasgow Women's Library - create your own 2027 Feminist Journal inspired by the rich history of feminist and activist print culture. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsesu.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Women making it with Glasgow Women’s Library
Join a fun evening celebrating women's print media with Glasgow Women’s Library!
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bloomington vigil this evening at 8:45. Court House Square
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Glad to be lending support to Exeter colleagues
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/07/2026
We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for sharing @mbhjournal.bsky.social's forthcoming Pimlott memorial lecture, given this year by Prof. William Whyte on 6 October at KCL - join us! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...
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The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography - LECTURE - RHS
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography Tuesday 6 October 2026, 6pm The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by the journal Modern British History, Oxford Univ...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026
📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As we go into the 250th weekend, if you are wondering why the colonies felt they had no other choice but to leave the British Empire, might I suggest _Tyrants and Rogues_ as a great guide to the imperial crisis and the Declaration. Short chapters! Human stories! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Tyrants and Rogues
'A timely and highly useful book in this semiquincentennial year&#8212;and far beyond.' &#8212;<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, starred review<br /><br />From an acclaimed historian, a revelatory account of t...
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Women's, gender and queer historian researchers outside the UK: do be in touch if you're going to be in Oxford or vicinity next academic year! sarah.knott@history.ox.ac.uk
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
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Assistant Professor
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.
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Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules
Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Job Details
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Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!
A box containing several copies of the book Bisexuality and Beyond. A small tabby cat is enthusiastically rubbing her head against the box.
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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On April 20th at 6.30pm ET you are invited to an online conversation between Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis regarding Weeks's 2026 book 'Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures.' RSVP here: bit.ly/3O0NIcX
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
That feeling when a seminar paper by a sterling student is about to be published. Proud. Congratulations, Johnny Fulfer! Won a JAH prize, too. academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
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Validate User
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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sharing on behalf of @newcastleuni the Call for Papers for their upcoming conference “Caring Communities: Rethinking Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-Present”, taking place at Newcastle University on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 of September 2026.
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What recognition for the remarkable Lyndal Roper, the first woman and first Australian to serve as Oxford's Regius Professor of History. Very proud to be her colleague www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/oxfo...
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Professor Lyndal Roper named 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 21/02/2026
I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
JOB. Dix-huitiemiste, assoc. prof, Oxford. Do join us. My colleagues in English are the business. www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...
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Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature (full-time)
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
GRADUATE ARCHIVE FELLOWSHIP FOR HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, 4-8 week visit, $5000: kinseyinstitute.org/collections/...
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Scholars of Sexology Fellowship: Collections: Kinsey Institute: Indiana University Bloomington
Kinsey Institute Scholars of Sexology Fellowship
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What can happen when there is a women's movement: 'Bogotá is pioneering “care blocks,” neighborhood hubs where women can access free laundry, legal aid, job training, mental health services, and more while their children or elderly relatives receive care on site www.vox.com/policy/46963...
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What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?
Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.
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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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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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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
JOB, statutory professor: Post-1970s European History, University of Oxford. Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History, a storied post one held by Timothy Garton Ash, details at the link my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
ONE YR SENIOR FELLOWSHIP: 'Scarcity and Abundance', here at Oxford's Koch History Centre: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/k.... Wonderful opportunity to have Oxford be your research sanctuary and your scholarly community, 2026-7. SHORT DEADLINE
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Koch History Centre Senior Fellowship
Faculty of History and Wadham CollegeResearch Grade 10, salary £82,255.
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Alissa Quart @alissaquart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments
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I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well
You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand
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St John's College, Oxford @stjohnsox.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Meet Professor @sarahknott.bsky.social, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at @stjohnsox.bsky.social and @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. We spoke to Professor Knott after her inaugural lecture this week about what the Chair means to her, and why it's so important.
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
POSTDOC at Edinburgh on digital slavery project. www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
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The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Grateful to share insights from our archives w/ @stjohnsox.bsky.social + @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social this week. As Prof. Sarah Knott shared, historians rely on archives to do what they do, & safe repositories like ours are essential for contextual understanding & research
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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Full details including how to join remotely via Teams here ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
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Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events - Oxford Talks
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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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/...
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The Invention of Gay Community, 1953-1969
Norther American History Seminar- Session 2
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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!
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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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Updates from the project – Voices of Motherhood
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2025
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.
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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)
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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!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Dreamy UK job, head of research, archives and libraries at the British Museum
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