Kate Bugos is a writer, historian, bookseller, feminist scholar, fiber crafts artist, mediocre pianist, aspiring translator, and very amateur web designer based in London, UK
Kate's work focuses on gender, labour, sex and sexuality, and British, Irish, and French history of the modern era. She also likes psychogeography, postmodern literature, cultural studies, neo-luddism, post growth economics, and a whole lot of other things. She writes in various places you can find below and also on Substack. Alongside writing, Kate co-convenes Re-Enchantment London, an interdisciplinary literature and arts collective. She knits, embroiders, speaks German, and is learning French.
Here is some of her work:
2025
I Have That On Vinyl: Featured Essay: A Trip to The Really Strange Record Club
New International: The Pankhurst Reign of Terror
Full Stop: Solidarity with Children – Madeline Lane-McKinley [Review]
The Bookseller: We don't need to redefine literacy
Review 31: The Feminist Art of Walking - Morag Rose [Review]
The Graveyard Review: Highgate Cemetery, London. (Print)
I also write on Substack
Academic Work
2025
Women’s History Network Conference: Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections (Conference Paper): News from Below Stairs: Magazines and newspapers as a primary source on the Domestic Workers Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1908-1914
2024
Historical Materalism (Conference Paper): Unionised Life Below Stairs: The Marxist Historians Neglect of Domestic Workers Political Organising
Kings College MA Dissertation: Something More than Food and Shelter’: Domestic Workers in the Trade Union Movement 1908-1914