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Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for a very special and memorable evening launching our exhibition, The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections. See more on upcoming events and explore the stories within this historic collection - www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
The Women's Library at 100
Find out about the activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 5mo agoLovely evening spent at @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary in great company with @gillianmurphy.bsky.social to celebrate 💯 years of this fantastic archival resource + a great exhibition curated by fantastic historians of women. @womenshistnet.bsky.social
LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
The Women’s Library at 100 – seven recommended reads for a new LSE exhibition - LSE Review of Books
Heather Dawson's reading list for Women’s History Month 2026 & a new exhibition at LSE Library, The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections.
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NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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NEW on our Digital Library: 'Opportunity', journal of the Federation of Women Civil Servants, and 'Townswoman', journal of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds are now available to search and research women's activism. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #thewomenslibraryat100
📆THU 5 Mar 12.30-1.30pm EVENT: For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener on the life and death of radical suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and her admiration of poet Walt Whitman. With items on display from The Women's Library collections. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-de...
For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener
For the Dear Love of Comrades: Emily Wilding Davison Takes Walt Whitman to the Grave
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"I always believed I could change injustices. And I was always on the side of the underdog." Listen to LSE alumna, Maureen Colquhoun, on becoming a Labour MP, falling in love with a woman, and the backlash that this caused. #LGBTplusHM #thewomen'slibrary100 archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SC/38
We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100 @fotwl.bsky.social
The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library
Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
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Latest @historyworkshop.org.uk with Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collison (LSE), Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu (TUC Library) @londonmetuni.bsky.social and historian Laura Schwartz (Warwick Uni) discussing trade union history. @tuc.org.uk The Exhibition is open until 31 Jan. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 7mo agoWhat does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change? Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.
📆Thu 4 Dec 4-6pm The Brontës in London Historian @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social shares the fascinating story of the family's relationship with London - the city of ‘wonders’ they regarded as a thrilling Babylon. @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bronte...
The Brontës in London
Join us for a deep dive into the Brontë sisters' lives and works, exploring their London connections.
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📆Thu 20 Nov, 6pm - John Cooper @forpeacemaker.bsky.social gives the George Lansbury Memorial Trust Lecture, Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? Chair: Prof. James Walters, LSE Faith Centre. Join us - all welcome www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? | LSE Library events
Join us for this special event with John Cooper of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as he delivers the George Lansbury Memorial Trust’s annual lecture.
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ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-the...
We Are The Lions Mr Manager: Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions
Join us online for a lively chat with Townsend Theatre Productions about their show "We Are The Lions Mr Manager"
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NEXT WEEK: Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London Scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885. Explore the dramatic events and the people involved that led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement @lseimpactblog.bsky.social. @lsepress.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social
Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, Niamh Tumelty and Caroline Ball argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.…
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📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885. Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.
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📢Exploring Victorian London: LSE, Lancaster University and BlockWorks create Minecraft Education* world bringing history to life. www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-... *Not an official Minecraft Education product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
LSE and Lancaster University create Minecraft Education world
The release of the "Charles Booth's London" world build coincides with LSE’s 130th anniversary, during which the university will be celebrating its impact, past and present.
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NEW✨ To mark a new exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Unions, co-curator Chelsea Collison picks out and reflects on seven fascinating items on display that illuminate the history of Britain's unions. @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
Combining efforts – 200 years of trade unions in the UK - LSE Review of Books
Curator Chelsea Collison selects and reflects on seven stand-out items from the exhibition Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History at LSE Library.
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Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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📢Excited to share a new job opportunity: Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to develop our engagement with Wikimedia and research visibility tools, working collaboratively with LSE colleagues to increase research impact. Closing: 17 Aug 2025 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp...
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We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections. Applications open until 22 September. Read more www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
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We’ve added our digitised collection of LGBT+ Badges to Flickr. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCgHQP These badges are from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection. #PrideMonth #Pride
LGBT+ Badges
This is a growing collection of digitised badges from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection.
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📆Fri 4 Jul, 1-2pm: join PhD researcher, Kelly Bosomworth, talking about Claire Madden, an Irish-born, Communist librarian of the 'Daily Worker' and part of Six Point Group, an influential gender equality campaign group of 20th cent. @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-was-cl...
Who was Claire Madden?
Explore the life of Claire Madden (1905 to 1998) through her archive held at the Women’s Library.
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From 19 June to 2 July 1975, the first UN International Conference on Women was held in Mexico City on the theme of equality, development and peace. Find out more about this conference and subsequent conferences in our current free exhibition continuing until August: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
📅Wed 18 Jun, 6-8pm: Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi will be at #LSEFestival performing and discussing their acclaimed play Lessons on Revolution, about two flatmates who uncover the history of a student movement in 1968 at LSE. Book your free ticket! ow.ly/vE8750W79Yq
Lessons on revolution
6pm Wed 18 Jun | Lisa McQuillan, Sam Rees, Gabriele Uboldi, Wendy Willems | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required
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📆Tue 13 May 4pm Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism? Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social discussing the research of feminist magazines from Shrew to Spare Rib, Red Rag and Outwrite with original copies from the archives on display. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?
Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room
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📅Mon 14 Apr 12-2pm Ambedkar's Birthday Open Archives + Tour. We are displaying the School file from the archives of LSE alumnus, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who championed Dalit rights and Chaired the Drafting Committee for the Indian constitution. @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour
Join us for this archives drop-in session where you'll be able to get up close to some treasures from our archives.
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