
Sarah Knott
@knott_sarah
Writer. Feminist. Historian. Professor. Likes to think about both "small' (pregnancy, birth, care) and 'large' (historical change). Working on MIDDLE CARE
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Come and do a (funded!) doctorate on the architects Seely and Paget with David Lewis of Oxford Continuing Education Andrew Hann of English Heritage and me... oocdtp.ac.uk/partnership-se…



Funding opp: The British Academy & Leverhulme Small Research Grants (Up to £10k). To support primary research in the humanities and social sciences thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

My book Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England 1660-1834 won a prize! Thanks to the judges and congratulations to fellow winner Jane Freeland womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-history…

Now at Arts and Humanities Research Council Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network School of LSS Workshop 4 we have three fab ECRs Maisie Jepson (she/her) Grace Heaton & Rachel Collett sharing their experiences of ‘doing’ oral history & how making stories of female activism more audible also makes this activism more visible.


Women are still the majority of workers in low paid or precarious employment - & have the most to benefit from Labour's employment bill. Our new briefing #TheFeministFutureOfWork is out today and looks at the opportunities that the bill presents for women. newstatesman.com/spotlight/econ…




Scholars of care, we should all be so lucky to be at Duke to hear Nancy Folbre speak this week...

Excited that my new book, Personhood, will be out with Yale University Press this spring, and so honored by the first blurb from Julian Zelizer, who calls the book powerful, "the definitive history of the concept of fetal personhood, past present, and future." More on the book soon!


Friday feed cleanse: how the 18thc librarian unchained the 16thc books St John's College . Thx William Whyte!

Feminist social reproduction / care historians, I reckon Sven Beckert needs to hear from you


Join us on Wednesday at 4pm for the first session of this year's #AffectiveArtefacts - with Dr Holly Fletcher and Noelle Duckmann Gallagher discuss fat bodies in early modern culture! @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture


I'm still here, ambivalently and on and off, so for now here is a fabulous job alert: Beit Professorship of Global and Imperial History here University of Oxford my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Mostly at the other place now. BUT I couldn't be happier that Hannah Zeavin is visiting Oxford next week! Join us on Thursday afternoon to talk writing, psychoanalysis and history history.ox.ac.uk/event/writing-…