Postgraduate research students

My overall research interests lie in women’s activism in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

My PhD research examines the relationship between the progress, long-term impact and remembrance of the Scottish suffrage campaign, and the personal experiences, subjectivities and narratives of its participants.

My project is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. 

Speed, Hannah. 2023. 'The Edinburgh movement for women's higher education through the eyes of its founder: what can the writings and biography of Mary Crudelius reveal about the campaign (1866-77)?', Scottish Archives, 29, pp.84-97. 

Blogs:

• Speed, Hannah, 'Women Readers’ Letters to the Glasgow Forward, 1906-1919,' Women’s History Scotland blog (12 August 2023), access here. 
• Speed, Hannah, 'Review: ‘Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990′, Women’s History Scotland blog (14 July 2024), access here.
• Speed, Hannah, 'Conference News: Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945,' Scottish Historical Review Trust blog (30 August 2024), access here.
• Peters, Eleanor and Hannah Speed, 'Women's History Network Conference 2024 - "Curating the Female Self", Women's History Scotland blog (24 September 2024), access here.

• Dr Tanya Cheadle
• Professor Bryony Randall

Theodora Bosanquet Bursary, Funds for Women Graduates, 2024.

Speed, Hannah. 19 May 2023. 'Community building in women's letters to the British labour/socialist press, 1906-1919,' [Paper presentation], Gender and Political Groups in Britain, c.1650-1950, University of Northampton, UK.

Speed, Hannah. 23 July 2024. 'Lifelong political identities in the autobiographies of Scottish women's suffrage campaigners,' [Paper presentation], Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945, University of Durham, UK.

Speed, Hannah. 5 September 2024. 'Constructing the feminist self in relation to fellow activists in the autobiographies of Scottish women's suffrage campaigners,' [Paper presentation], Women's History Network Conference: Curating the Female Self, Royal Holloway University, UK.

Speed, Hannah. 30 October 2024. 'Glass half full: the part-time PhD,' [Paper presentation], This PhD Life, University of Glasgow, UK.

Speed, Hannah. 6 December 2024. 'Remembering and enacting political and social change: the memoir of Scottish suffragette Ethel Moorhead in This Quarter,' [Paper presentation], Periodicals, History, and Change Postgraduate Workshop, The Leeds Library, UK.

Graduate Teaching Assistant: History 2A, University of Glasgow, 2024/25.

I am member of the Women's History Scotland Steering Committee. 

I previously completed an MSc in Gender History at the University of Glasgow, and a BA (Hons) in History at the University of Oxford.