Women’s History Scotland is pleased to announce the winner for the 2025 Leah Leneman Essay Prize. The judges unanimously agreed on Finn Mander’s essay, ‘”In her Tyme”: Temporal-Literacy, Work and Scottish Noblewomen (1630-1710)’. The strong central argument establishes temporal-literacy – the understanding, navigation and employment of multiple time-systems – as an important ...

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we are bringing you a blog about Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary and matron of a Church of Scotland girls’ home in Budapest, Hungary, who died in Auschwitz. The blog was written by Shona Paget, an undergraduate at the University of Strathclyde, and forms part of the work she completed on the

We are pleased to highlight a new publication by Steering Committee member Deborah Simonton: Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Working Girl, a groundbreaking study of the experi...

To commence the New Year, we are delighted to host a blog written by Alison McCall, committee member and administrator of Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland. Alison recovers the life of Catherine MacPhee, whose brother, Angus MacPhee, bludgeoned his parents and aunt to death in t...