Incredibly grateful to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social for inviting Grace to write this blog for 💯 years of Women’s Library & for all the support & guidance given by staff at the @lselibrary.bsky.social to Grace during her time working on the @womensinstitute.bsky.social archives. 🙏❤️.

Gillian Murphy@gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 7d ago

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

Women and environmental activism: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes - LSE History

The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.

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So proud of Grace who did work experience with me. We worked together finding out more about @womensinstitute.bsky.social involvement in environmental activism. & icing on cake was Grace discovering her great grandmother was in her local WI. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #womensgrassrootsactivism

Gillian Murphy@gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 7d ago

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

NOW PUBLISHED – The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects Here's a glance at just two of the spreads from the inside my new book. And here's the cover. 320 pages, 38 colour illustrations and 63 black & white. Available in paperback, hardback and as an Ebook. Order through your favourite…

NOW PUBLISHED – The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects

Here's a glance at just two of the spreads from the inside my new book. And here's the cover. 320 pages, 38 colour illustrations and 63 black & white. Available in paperback, hardback and as an Ebook. Order through your favourite independent bookshop or from Bloomsbury, Blackwells, Waterstones or Amazon And it's even stocked in some bookshops...

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Congratulations Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Crawford@womanssphere.bsky.social · 2w ago

Publication day today. And here are 2 more lovely comments from early readers. I’m so grateful to them for their interest. Btw this seems a rather good deal on the p/b from you-know-who amzn.eu/d/0do1hf11

Publication day today. And here are 2 more lovely comments from early readers. I’m so grateful to them for their interest. Btw this seems a rather good deal on the p/b from you-know-who amzn.eu/d/0do1hf11

I am pleased - and relieved - to have approval for my new book from two workers who delve daily at the suffrage coalface. For details of the book - pub tomorrow by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social - see link in bio

Never forget the 19th-c suffrage campaigners who laid the foundation for eventual success. Over 60+ years, the campaign took many forms, leaving in its wake 1000s of objects. I take 100 to tell the story. The end is near- pub tomorrow - see link in bio #womenshistory #suffragettes #votesforwomen

Yes, a hot air balloon was a ‘suffrage object’ - in which Muriel Matters sailed over London, dropping ‘Votes for Women’ leaflets as she went. For more suffrage objects see my new book, pub 23 July by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social #womenshistory #suffragehistory

Saw this on Broadway and was an absolute husk afterwards… it was incredibly well done and the research shines through. Thrilled it was properly filmed for posterity - and reaching more audiences live with the US tour still going strong!

HistorySmith@historysmith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just watched Suffs on PBS and…….. wow 🤩 That was ridiculously well done. And the message about generational protest and struggle is so very on point for right now. Everybody should see this musical. [I hope that it eventually ends up on one of the #HATM streams.]

In Parliament this week (6-10 July)? Stop by the Upper Waiting Hall and find out about 1960s-70s feminist MPJoyce Butler in this mini-exhibition by @teadevotee.bsky.social www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

History Fellow Dr Lyndsey Jenkins showcases the life of Joyce Butler, MP for Wood Green, in Parliament - Mansfield College

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#OTD 1928 all women became eligible to vote on the same terms as men. Beginning in 1866, the campaign had many byways. I take 100 objects to act as signposts & direct the narrative in my new book. Pub 23 July by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social see link in bio #womenshistory

New in The Women's Library at 100 blog series by Terri Mullholland: '“An ever increasing army” – housing the unmarried woman worker in London' blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

“An ever increasing army” – housing the unmarried woman worker in London - LSE History

Terri Mulholland has used The Women's Library at LSE to explore publications giving advice on board and lodgings for unmarried women who had travelled to London for work in the early 20th century.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the AGM and for Lyndsey and Grace's talk. We had a great time.

Friends of The Women's Library@fotwl.bsky.social · last mo.

Because of the heat, we have, sadly, decided to go online for our AGM and talk on Thursday. AGM at 5pm. Talk from Lyndsey and Grace at 6.30pm. Hope to see you there.

Because of the heat, we have, sadly, decided to go online for our AGM and talk on Thursday. AGM at 5pm. Talk from Lyndsey and Grace at 6.30pm. Hope to see you there.

Friends of The Women's Library@fotwl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us at LSE Library on 25 June for our hybrid AGM talk by @teadevotee.bsky.social and @graceheaton.bsky.social on the faith, feminism and politics of Una Kroll. More details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-magnific...

This is a picture book. 100 pics attached to 100 essays narrating the history of the women’s suffrage campaign, 1866-128 & beyond. It’s social history, it’s politics, it’s people, it’s inventiveness, it’s memory. Pub 23 July - details in link in bio @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

The entire history of the women’s suffrage campaign - 1866 to 1928 - suffragists and suffragettes - from petitions to bombings - is set out v succinctly in my new book The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects, published @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July. No excuse not know this history

Natasha Walter@natashawalter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I find it extraordinary and truly infuriating that the judges could say this. How can radical histories be so completely misunderstood, generation after generation, even by - or especially by - those in positions of power?

A ‘suffrage game’ such as Pank-a-Squith is just one of the 100 objects through which I narrate the history of the British women’s suffrage movement. Look out for my book, to be published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July

#OTD1913 Emily Wilding Davison went by train to Epsom, returning a few days later - in a coffin. An item carried in her funeral procession is Object 73 in my ‘The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects’ pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. An enticing pre-order price is available

Join us at LSE Library on 25 June for our hybrid AGM talk by @teadevotee.bsky.social and @graceheaton.bsky.social on the faith, feminism and politics of Una Kroll. More details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-magnific...

‘A Magnificent Failure’? Una Kroll: Faith, Feminism, and Politics

Join us for a discussion of Una Kroll’s campaigning through faith, feminism, and politics.

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Looking forward to attending the @fotwl.bsky.social annual lecture & hearing the always worth hearing @teadevotee.bsky.social & @graceheaton.bsky.social speak faith, feminism & politics. Free tickets still available in-person & online…

‘A Magnificent Failure’? Una Kroll: Faith, Feminism, and Politics

Join us for a discussion of Una Kroll’s campaigning through faith, feminism, and politics.

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I am really looking forward to talking about my research and (so very nearly completed) book on women’s welfare activism at the CBH seminar on 24th June at IHR. If you are in London then do come along would be lovely to see you. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Women's welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century Britain

Contemporary British History Seminar

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1st women accountants. @fotwl.bsky.social talk Ethel Watts, www.icaew.com/library/hist... Opportunity 1930 . she trained articled clerks to encourage women digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social@icaew @icaew.bsky.social

New on the blog! Elizabeth Strange explores the life of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a silk designer in 18th century England #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/anna-maria-g...

Anna Maria Garthwaite: One of the few 18th century British female silk designers – Elizabeth Strange

This blog post focuses on Anna Maria Garthwaite who was a silk designer in 18th century England. A silk designers’ purpose was to create designs that showed weavers what colours and decoration they…

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For #internationalteaday I give you a very rare #suffrageobject - a Scottish Women’s Social and Political Union teaset. ‘Angel of Freedom’ plus thistles in purple, white and green. So simple, so charming -such a clever a piece of propaganda

Born #OTD 1806, #OTD 1867 John Stuart Mill, philosopher & MP, moved an amendment to the Reform Bill to include women - on the same terms as men. A statue is most certainly a #suffrageobject - as you’ll see in my forthcoming The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects - see link in bio

It's tomorrow. We hope to see you there.

Friends of The Women's Library@fotwl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our next hybrid talk is on 20 May at 2.30pm in LSE Library. Dr Jane Berney and Dr Katie Broomfield will talk about women in the professions of accountancy and of law. Email friendsofthewomenslibrary@gmail.com if you'd like to come. More info here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

I grew up in the 1950/60s near Roebuck House, hearing stories of Despard, who was a titan. Coincidentally, I now live near Vauxhall in London, where she was a poor law guardian 1894-1903. Equally coincidentally, today I was in the Women's Library at the LSE, which holds her diary of the Russian trip

Our next hybrid talk is on 20 May at 2.30pm in LSE Library. Dr Jane Berney and Dr Katie Broomfield will talk about women in the professions of accountancy and of law. Email friendsofthewomenslibrary@gmail.com if you'd like to come. More info here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

Women! You don't have to make your mark on the House of Commons today by any nefarious means - just cast your vote. But look at the lengths to which these dastardly suffragettes were prepared to go ... womanandhersphere.com/2026/05/07/s...

SUFFRAGE OBJECTS: MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES

As we women make our way to the polling stations to cast our votes in the various elections being held today – Thursday 7 May 2026 – spare a thought for the efforts made by women 120 ye…

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