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Women’s History in Scotland: Then and Now

Friday 18th September 2026; Online via Zoom

Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce a call for papers for a one-day conference taking place on Friday 18th September 2026. This conference will be held on...


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In this blog, Dr Amy Blakeway—a senior lecturer in sixteenth-century Scottish history at the University of St Andrews—discusses the impact of the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1540s on women and questions the problematic language used to describe these conflicts. Blakeway’s research has contributed to the War, Destruction and Reform: The Early Years of Mary, Queen of Scots e...


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Jane Haining

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


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