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  We're having an event at #UnivofStAndrews this afternoon to celebrate the first women to be awarded #PhDs in #History at StA - and to discuss the ways in which experiences of early-career women historians have (or have not) changed over the last 100 years. #histodons at a distance can read our web essays about Edith MacQueen (PhD 1927), Edith Thomson (PhD 1928), Elizabeth Menzies (PhD 1954) and Edith Johnston (PhD 1956). See 'Life stories' at https://women-historians.wp...

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  To celebrate International Women's Day, and throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, the School of History at #UnivofStAndrews will be sharing the stories of some of our historic women historians of St Andrews. First up is Caroline Doris Ketelbey, who was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History in 1935. She had previously been a teacher at St Leonards School; and would later be a visiting professor at the (future) University of Ghana. Read more at https://women-historians.wp.st-an...

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  Dr Edith Johnston's international academic career took her from school in #Belfast to MA PhD #UnivofStAndrews to jobs at Sheffield #UniSheffield and #MacquarieUniversity (and visiting fellowships in N America), then back to Ireland Read more at https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/07/24/edith-johnston-phd-1956/ She was the first St Andrews woman PhD historian (that we know of) to successfully pursue an academic career - and so we celebrate her this #WomensHistoryMont...

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  We're proud to share the story of Elizabeth Peddie Steele Hutton (c.1867-1917). She was one of the first two women to graduate MA Hons from #UnivStAndrews History, and was later first editor of the student magazine College Echoes. Sarah Leith has written about her (and her beautiful piece of pantheistic writing, 'The Romance of St Andrews') on our Women Historians of St Andrews website: https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/04/11/elizabeth-peddie-steele-hu...

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  The latest post for our Women Historians project is about #byzantine historian Ruth Macrides PhD (1949-2019). (#StAndrewsHist #univofstandrews #univbirmingham) It hints at the challenges of academic careers facing women (married women?) in the late 20thC. #histodons https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/06/03/ruth-macrides-1949-2019/

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  We also have a recent post on a fascinating very early #woman #History lecturer #univofstandrews : Elizabeth Hewat: graduate of #EdinburghUni, wartime replacement lecturer in History #UnivofStAndrews 1919-20. Had hoped to be ordained as #Church of #Scotland minister in 1920s. Later, missionary, scholar, educator in China and India. #histodons https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/02/elizabeth-g-k-hewat-1895-1968/

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  My co-authors and I are deeply honoured to be shortlisted in this group of inspiring books by wonderful authors! And delighted to see #BSHS supporting collaborative research (i.e. multi-author monographs) A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015 (UCL Press, 2022, #openaccess ) is short-listed for the Pickstone Prize for the the best academic book (in English) in history of science, medicine and technology. #hstm #histsci #histodons https://www.bshs.org.uk/bs...

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  My #OA book (from 2022) has now passed 10,000 downloads and has already been cited in a wide variety of contexts (many of them far outside my core discipline). Clear evidence of the benefits of #openaccess to humanities publishing - and yet I've just learned that #REF2029 has backed away from imposing an #openaccess mandate on books and other long-form research outputs. Until next time, they say. https://www.ref.ac.uk/news/early-decisions-made-on-ref-2029-open-access-policy/

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  Interested to read Rob Johnson's piece on #LSEImpactBlog - arguing that non-profit #OA publishing should not be expected to be cheaper (unless done at small-scale with lots of volunteer labour and in-kind support) - and so will need support so it can reach the scale that _will_ enable cost-savings. In other words, don't argue that going non-profit #OA will be cheaper. Argue that it is the Right Thing to do. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/01/09/not-for-profit...

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  Those interested in learned society journals - including finances, unpaid labour, in-kind support - might be interested in our article on the business history of #IsisJournal from the 1950s on. It really brought home to me the importance of that dwindling phenomenon: 'institutional support'. #histsci #scholarlyPublishing https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/QUU3JSUI8XJRB3SWATR4/full?redirectUri=/doi/epdf/10.1086/731713

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  The new #openaccess collaborative Scottish Universities Press has just announced the titles of its first books - due to launch in October. Here's hoping for many more! https://www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-announces-first-books

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  I'm delighted to be in Paris, for a two-day workshop on scientific journals in the 19th/20th centuries - and honoured that our book 'A History of Scientific Journals' has been given pride of place! https://www.ehess.fr/fr/journ%C3%A9es-d%C3%A9tude/revues-scientifiques-xix%E1%B5%89-xx%E1%B5%89-si%C3%A8cles https://uclpress.co.uk/book/a-history-of-scientific-journals/

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  How did #UnivofStAndrews benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available https://legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ The detail of our findings may be of most interest to those closely associated with #standrews #Fife and #Tayside, or #Scotland; but I hope that our approach will be of interest to a wider audience. #history #histodons

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  It was fantastic to see #histsci friend @SurekhaDavies@historians.social on stage at the #Edinburgh #bookfest last week, promoting her book Humans: a Monstrous History. I particularly enjoyed seeing what authors do behind the scenes at these events (including: hard at work signing books...)