Gillian Murphy
@gillianmurphy.bsky.social
Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
6/6. Despite this early 'retirement', I am in lucky to be able to keep on doing history & to continue working with amazing colleagues such as @ruthdav.bsky.social & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & many more. Will be an Emerita Prof & can be found here: researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/persons/c...
Caitriona Beaumont
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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 agoNew 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...
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 agoNew 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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Thanks for this Gillian! These really were the very first steps that led to this new research, really grateful for the opportunity to share them back then!
And a 2024 piece by Iago on the Hall-Carpenter Archive Spanish journals: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...
Spanish queer publications at the Hall-Carpenter Archives - LSE History
Researcher Iago Mora Arcas follows the evolution of publications by Spanish gay liberation fronts in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and Gay Liberation Front collections at LSE Library.
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoRevealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective
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
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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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 agoJoin 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...
I can reveal that Billinghurst’s ‘Velociman’ is Object 56 in my British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects’ to be pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social on 23 July. For details see link in bio. It’s a book accessible to all
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago'Turner, a professor at Swansea University, shows that while public and political attitudes to disability have remained poor, disabled people have challenged them at every stage, wresting progress out of even the most unpromising circumstances.' 1/2 #Skystorians
📢 Call for Papers! We welcome submissions from contributors based anywhere in the world, particularly those whose research engages with Scottish themes. Contributors do not need to be based in Scotland. 📝 Abstract due 1 July 🗓️Conference 18 September womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c...
Call for Papers: Women’s History Scotland Annual Conference 2026 – Women's History Scotland
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Join the Team! We are recruiting for a Learning Officer and Collections Engagement and Access Officer, two new roles at an exciting time in the development of this Grade I listed, literary house museum in the historic heart of London. www.drjohnsonshouse.org/jobs
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 agoI 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?
We also ran an oral history project on women involved in the Movement for the Ordination of Women, a campaign that Una Kroll was involved in. Hear them here: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
Collections - LSE Digital Library
Explore our digital collections through curated selections of material according to themes, type or source of material.
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#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
What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college in colonial India reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in Madras.
An Unreliable Archive of Internationalism
What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in colonial India.
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And if you want to hear Una Kroll's voice, we have an interview she made in 2016 on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
Interview with Una Kroll - LSE Digital Library
Interview with Una Kroll, 2016, This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Una Kroll. Length of recording: 01:00:49., <a href="https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/HCA/LGCM/10/4/32">HCA...
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Friends of The Women's Library@fotwl.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere will be an opportunity to look at the current exhibition 'The Women's Library at 100: celebrating a centenary of collections' and the plinth on Una Kroll's 1974 General Election campaign. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
There will be an opportunity to look at the current exhibition 'The Women's Library at 100: celebrating a centenary of collections' and the plinth on Una Kroll's 1974 General Election campaign. 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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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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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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📢Call for papers for our 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’ on Tuesday 24th November 2026. Abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026. For more information: www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-fo...
Sir David Attenborough inspired generations of wildlife researchers and presenters, but who inspired him? Step forward diminutive, dismissed but indomitable Evelyn Cheesman, whose books about the natural world inspired the young David Attenborough. But not for her well-resourced expeditions.../1
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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At @lsepress.bsky.social we are at the forefront of doing publishing differently - making equitable #OpenAccess available w/out fees as much as possible and prioritising care and collaboration in working in partnership with our authors. Join us!
LSE Press@lsepress.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre you ready to publish your book? We publish books in the social sciences and related fields, especially work that crosses disciplines and engages with academic and public debate. 🔗 Find out more about submitting your idea and working with our publishing team: https://bit.ly/4tEZI2t
Super exciting that Naila Kabeer’s Renegotiating Patriarchy is shortlisted here. A big moment for LSE Press 🎉
American Council of Learned Societies@acls1919.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnnouncing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD
SUFFRAGE OBJECT: ANNIE KENNEY’S BRACELET Many years ago I was briefly the owner of a most remarkable suffrage object, a tangible record of a very real friendship. This 9- ct gold bracelet, conventionally pretty in its outer appearance, is within engraved with a revealing message. Inside, one arc…
SUFFRAGE OBJECT: ANNIE KENNEY’S BRACELET
Many years ago I was briefly the owner of a most remarkable suffrage object, a tangible record of a very real friendship. This 9- ct gold bracelet, conventionally pretty in its outer appearance, is within engraved with a revealing message. Inside, one arc of the circle reads: 'To dearest Annie with all my love & in recollection of our great day out'
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