Caitríona Beaumont

Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.

So many students have come to me over the years feeling trapped by a law degree they only did because people around them pushed them into a "sensible" option, and yet this messaging is now so loud my response that the right degree is what you want to study falls flat:

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Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social

Photo of a painting on a purple wall in an ornate gold frame, the work is of an arrangement of flowers against a dark background

Anna Ruysch (1666-1754)Dutch Golden Age flower painter, younger sister of more well known painter Rachel Ruysch. Women painters became expert flower paintes as they were not allowed in academies to study human models and anatomy #WomensHistoryMonth

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social

The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

Cover of The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II by Caitlin Galante DeAngelis sepia cover with black and white images of gardeners' mugshots and a cemetery decorated with flowers

Happy birthday to my book, which is out today in the US!

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It was so lovely to meet you Caitlin & thanks for giving me a copy of your fabulous book ❤️. It was a great conference & enjoyed opportunity to reflect on experiences of Irish women in war alongside @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @lloislanel.bsky.social #Afterlives

Thanks particularly to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @corkafterlives.bsky.social @usuhistorienne.bsky.social
@elizakirk.bsky.social for their work!

If anyone else who was at the conference is on Bluesky, please let me know so I can follow you!

Today is the International Feminist Day of Struggle. In 1910, socialist feminists around Clara Zetkin called for 8 March to become a global day of action for women’s rights. Today feminists take to the streets worldwide — the fight for real equality continues. 🌹✊

The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes Fit for Heroines’ I’m delighted to feature today the second of two guest posts by Lynne Dixon examining the work of some of our early female housing campaigners and reformers. Lynne has a background in histori…

2/ The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes Fit for Heroines’
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‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War 1 and After I’m delighted to feature today the first of two guest posts by Lynne Dixon examining the work of some of our early female housing campaigners and reformers. Lynne has a background in historic…

1/ To mark #InternationalWomensDay2026, a reminder of two posts by Lynne Dixon - ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War One and After
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Remembering my dear, radical mother Dinah on #internationalwomensday.
She took @fergus.oolong.co.uk & I to Greenham Common when we were tiny to support the women there, where my first memory of the police was watching them drag a peacefully-resisting woman across the road by her hair

'This process [of 'passive suppression'] includes moves by policymakers to steer research resources, precarious working conditions and frequent changes to academic systems, Maria Leptin explained in a speech at an event in London on 5 March, hosted by the Council for At-Risk Academics.'

A #OnePlaceStudy contribution to #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

International Women's Day
Our online oral history exhibition includes lots of fascinating clips of interviews with Irish women across generations who emigrated to Britain, or are second and third generation Irish here.

Take a look! https://bit.ly/HeritageExhibition

Femmes combattantes en France, Grande-Bretagne et Irlande dans la première moitié du XX° siècle

Mary MCAULIFFE (University College Dublin, Ireland): 'It changed the course of my life and left me drifting penniless and broken in spirit'; the afterlives of female anti-treaty militants imprisoned during the Irish civil war, 1922-1923. Leeann LANE (Dublin City University, Ireland): Cork Afterlives: Single Women and the New Irish State. Caitríona BEAUMONT (London South Bank University, GB). A fury and a 'die-hard' or an active citizen? Claiming citizenship in the wake of the Irish revolution and civil war.

Enroute back from an excellent conference on ‘Women in War in Britain, France and Ireland ’ at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, in Boulonge Sur Mer’. Really excellent, thought provoking papers and great camarderie hanging with my sister historians - a lovely way to spend #IWD2026

I like this cartoon so much we paid the New Yorker the fee it requested to include it in my book.

We’ve not even had the vote 100 years. Let’s not let thing backslide.

Happy International Women’s Day, one and all.

Had to choose this germinal book from 1998 for #IWD - so important for expanding ideas of architectural agency & showing women’s centrality to the project of modernism.

Cover of 1994 book on architecture & social reform by Deborah Wiener. Cover depicts a London School Board building.

it’s #WHM, so I thought I’d post about books that explore women in/& architecture/built env’t & the women who write them. Women architectural historians go rather not seen. So today, an excellent book from 1994 & a link to a short piece I wrote about it. womenwritingarchitecture.org/annotation/e...

Unforgettable In spring 2026, the MSK offers the chance to discover the fascinating works created by women artists in the Low Countries.

These are two of around 150 paintings by 40 female artists who may have been forgotten or overlooked which are to be displayed at this exhibition at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. It looks worth the trip!
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The cover of Rebel Women between the Wars by Sarah Lonsdale featuring a pen, mountains and a spanner

The cover of Wildly Different: Five women who reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World by Sarah Lonsdale

Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Extreme Sports Laurie Taylor hears about research into ultra running and women mountaineers.

You can hear me talking about mountaineer Dorothy Pilley on this week's Thinking Allowed: BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Extreme Sports share.google/jF4YZHseyZ35...

Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

To mark #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction we launch @ukri.org #AHRC funded project #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ toolkit. Join us:
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm-7pm (UK time via Zoom)
& find out more here: learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass... #WomensHistoryMonth Please re-post 🙏 #RightsJusticeAction

Happy international women’s day to all

Happy international women’s day to all - especially my feminist comrades still fighting the good fight. #internationalwomensday2026

Such a valuable, inspiring new resource. So much work! 🙏

"For more than a century, women’s grassroots organisations across Ireland and the UK have driven meaningful change, from equal pay and rural electrification, to environmental protection and tackling gender-based violence."

Thank you Claire ❤️. It was indeed a lot of work, with c 28 events over 18 months (!) but it was a team effort with fab colleagues @annefhlogan.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @racheljcollett.bsky.social & Anna Muggeridge & esp our amazing colleagues in our women’s organisations 👏.

Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years As we mark International Women’s Day, a new book looks at how women overcame the barriers and restrictions imposed on them

Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social
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Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of the History of Medicine The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in…

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.

Honouring International Women’s Day with a look back at how far we’ve come.

In 1922, Irish women finally won full voting rights—thanks to the tireless efforts of those who fought for equality and democratic participation.

Their voices shaped our future and continue to inspire us today.

#IWD26