Hurrah! Enjoy! @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

LSE Library@lselibrary.bsky.social · 19h ago

New on LSE Digital Library! The Women’s Freedom League; 1,063 items including minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, banners, photographs and issues of The Vote. @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 View collection here: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

You can read digitised issues of She (1970-1973), Mukti (1983-1987), and more in the South Asian Heritage collection on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100

LSE Library@lselibrary.bsky.social · 4w ago

📆EVENT Thu 24 Sep 6-8pm Preserving women's publishing histories: Editing Women in the Archives. Hear about the project working to preserve five decades of magazines pioneered, edited and sustained by Pakistani women. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

New on LSE Digital Library! The Women’s Freedom League; 1,063 items including minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, banners, photographs and issues of The Vote. @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 View collection here: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

It's TODAY at 2.30pm in the PhD Academy in LSE Library. Come along and hear Susan Pedersen on 'Allies and Rivals: Lady Frances and Lady Betty Take on Marriage and Politics’.

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

Join us on 7 October at 2.30pm at LSE Library for a hybrid talk by Prof Susan Pedersen on 'Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four' (2026) about two aristocratic Balfour wives, their marriages and politics. Info here: womenshistorynetwork.org/friends-of-t...

This is such a great book (and her biography of Eleanor Rathbone should be on every politician's shelf). Would definitely be joining if I could.

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

Join us on 7 October at 2.30pm at LSE Library for a hybrid talk by Prof Susan Pedersen on 'Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four' (2026) about two aristocratic Balfour wives, their marriages and politics. Info here: womenshistorynetwork.org/friends-of-t...

Today 29 September 1967 was Vera Douie's last day in the Fawcett Library. Tomorrow is the last day of The Women's Library centenary exhibition. Thank you to everyone who visited (so far). Here is Vera in the Fawcett Library on Wilfred Street and a portrait of Vera by Madeline Anderson in 1967.

LSE Library@lselibrary.bsky.social · last wk.

FINAL DAYS - current exhibition closes 7pm 30 Sep! 'The Women's Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections' on the history of The Women’s Library and its rich and diverse collections and stories from the viewpoint of researchers. @lsesu.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Join us on 7 October at 2.30pm at LSE Library for a hybrid talk by Prof Susan Pedersen on 'Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four' (2026) about two aristocratic Balfour wives, their marriages and politics. Info here: womenshistorynetwork.org/friends-of-t...

Friends of the Women’s Library Talk on 7 October

Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme Wednesday Oct. 7, 2.30 pm, at LSE Library, Professor Susan Pedersen will be speaking on her most recent book, Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble…

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"Being told that I couldn't do things because I was a girl was like a red rag to a bull." Raised by a single mother, Gaby Weiner has always been a feminist: in the Hornsey Housebound Housewives, in a school where women teachers couldn't wear trousers, and in her MA on the Sex Discrimination Act.

RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER, I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A FEMINIST | HOWL

Always a feminist, brought up by a single mother, threaded through education, teaching and writing.

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📆ONLINE EVENT Wed 30 Sep 1-2pm Trailblazers: the first women elected to government. Listen to the stories of fearless women who broke barriers and changed the game in government with historian Paula Bartley. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trailblaze...

Trailblazers: the first women elected to government

Dive into the stories of fearless women who broke barriers and changed the game in government.

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I was invited to write a piece @ my new book -The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects (pub by @ @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social)for the jnl of the Association of Librarians & Information Professionals in the Social Sciences. Let me know if you librarians are interested! #womenshistory

📢 Please share widely! Our speaker for the annual Sue Innes Memorial Lecture is historian of Scottish emigration, Professor Marjory Harper! 📅 Saturday 24 October 🕑 2.00–3.30pm 📍 AK Bell Library, Perth 🎟️ Book via Ticket Tailor: www.tickettailor.com/events/women... Non-WHS members welcome!

New on LSE Library Digital Library! 578 posters and photographs from the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) archive are now available to browse. More material will be added to this collection in the coming months. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #ArchiveSky #HistorySky

31 years after signing a contract to research & write The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide, I’ve now signed with @routledgehistory.bsky.social to produce a SECOND EDITION. I like to keep busy. NB current ed. Remains in print #votesforwomen

The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social marks 💯 years! To celebrate this milestone, join us for a special event to discuss 5 decades of women publishing in Pakistan. 📆 Thu, 24 Sep 26 📍 LSE, WC2A 🕕 6pm For 🗣️ & 🆓 reg. details, click on ⬇️ 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... @lsepress.bsky.social

New blog! Read @lseechist.bsky.social Madeleine Dawson explores the 'What Women Want' archive in the The Women’s Library at LSE. Launched in 1995, it was the largest survey of women in Britain. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

📆EVENT Thu 24 Sep 6-8pm Preserving women's publishing histories: Editing Women in the Archives. Hear about the project working to preserve five decades of magazines pioneered, edited and sustained by Pakistani women. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Editing Women in the Archives

Celebrate five decades of Pakistani women in publishing with us at this panel discussion.

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Just noticed that Bloomsbury is offering the p/b edition online at an exceedingly tempting price www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-w... #womenshistory #votesforwomen

@womenshistnet.bsky.social conference. @lselibrary.bsky.social displayed some newly acquired archives @fotwl.bsky.social . handwritten manuscript Constance Lytton disguised as maid force-fed www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/216... @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

We are looking forward to welcoming keynote speaker @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and delegates of @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference today.

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · last mo.

All set for keynote @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference today @lselibrary.bsky.social. I will reflect on my debt to #WomensLibrary, celebrating its 💯 years & talking about my new #BeyondWomensLiberation project on @womensinstitute.bsky.social environmental activism. #womensgrassrootsactivism.

Shout out for Grace Parker's blog 'Women and enviornmental activism' in keynote by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference. 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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Last few weeks to visit our exhibition 'The Women's Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections' on the history of The Women’s Library and its rich and diverse collections from the viewpoint of researchers engaging with it. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections

Visit our exhibition and celebrate 100 years since the founding of The Women's Library.

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Lovely to meet up with colleagues and enjoy exhibitions on day 1 of the @womenshistnet.bsky.social at @lselibrary.bsky.social - with a keynote from @caitbeaumont.bsky.social starting shortly.

Thank you @womenshistnet.bsky.social for invite to give keynote #WHN2026 conference @lselibrary.bsky.social. It was fun 🤩. Packed programme today, great papers showcasing new research incl: @teadevotee.bsky.social @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social @tmartinwalsh.bsky.social @annefhlogan.bsky.social

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

The Women's Library has some impressive chains of office for the Institute of Home Economics!

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 2mo ago

She also has an impressive #chainofoffice for this role. Am increasingly fascinated by #materialculture of chains of office worn by women officials. For example presidents of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @sitwd.bsky.social. Beautiful objects with record of those gone before. #womensgrassrootsactivism

(My bad, quick) photos of a real suffragette’s photograph album. My pics (as were the originals) taken long before Insta dreamed of. Such albums were the Insta of their day. Photos are analysed as ‘objects’ in my new book pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social See link in bio. #worldphotographyday📸

I will be speaking about the celebration in 1928 marking the centenary of Josephine Butler’s birth & what it tells us about 1920s feminism. There’s lots of other papers too, probably even more interesting!

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

Delighted to be giving a paper at this years conference. congrats to the organisers for putting it together.

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to talking about the somewhat overlooked Criminal Law Amendment Act 1951, a direct attack on the sexual double standard. #LegalHistory

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

Honoured to give a keynote at @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference on 3 Sept. Will reflect on how @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary shaped my research since first visit in 1991 & will be sharing beginnings of project on history of @womensinstitute.bsky.social & its #environmental activism.

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

WHN Annual Conference: Registrations now open!

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Fr…

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