Mari Takayanagi
@satisfactory20.bsky.social
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Hi everyone. My sales have been woeful this month. 😔 Can I ask a favour please, can you visit my shop & browse. 🙏 No need to buy anything.. I'm putting this request on all my socials to see where the visits mostly come from. ❤️ Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
Congratulations to the Heritage Collections team in UK Parliament on ‘A Historic Farewell’ exhibition on lying in state of Elizabeth II. Fantastic new artworks, beautifully displayed in the Hall it took place in. Book visits to 2 Oct, or see online heritagecollections.parliament.uk/exhibits/lyi...
The rise and fall of the parliamentary outreach team: Why cutting regional engagement is a mistake - by @aileenwalker.bsky.social and myself for the @hansardsociety.bsky.social: www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/parliam...
The rise and fall of the parliamentary outreach team: Why cutting regional engagement is a mistake
The House of Commons' proposal to abolish its regional parliamentary outreach service marks a significant retreat from two decades of leadership in public engagement. Replacing face-to-face community ...
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Right, my last Friday Murder of the academic year drops today. And it's about baby farming. You can read the whole thing if you want to know more, but I'm going to tell you the story of one woman on here, who unwittingly paid a couple to kill her daughter. Her name was Alice Rodenhurst.
We have! One of the (many), important women in the early history of local archives. Declaring an interest, she contributed to some of our books in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Surrey and Worcestershire, available @bho.bsky.social. #Skystorians
Suffolk Archives@suffolkarchives.bsky.social · 3w agoHave you heard of Lilian Redstone? She was one of the first women to make history her profession and helped establish the first county record offices in Suffolk, shaping how the county's history is kept and shared today. We're honouring her life and work with a range of events https://orlo.uk/1LVxg
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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Had an interesting and productive day researching in the Betty Boothroyd archives, housed in @oulibrary.bsky.social named after her. Also pleased to see the prototype statue of Jennie Lee at Milton Keynes rail station!
Our Finding Aid of 18th-century women in the Stationers' Company is LIVE! Here I reflect on some of the pitfalls facing the scholar of female apprentices. Let me know if it's useful! www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blo...
Although the 1832 Reform Act marked an extension of the franchise in the UK, it also prevented women from voting in parliamentary elections. However, Dr Philip Salmon has explored how some women could vote long before they secured equal electoral rights with men.
Votes for women before and after 1832 - The History of Parliament
Philip Salmon of our House of Commons, 1832-1868 project re-examines when and how some women could vote long before they secured equal electoral rights with men.
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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
SUFFRAGE OBJECT: A PALMIST’S BUSINESS CARD: WHO WAS ‘LA YENDA’? This card was given to Kate Frye at the Women's Freedom League 'Green, White and Gold Fair', held in Caxton Hall, London, in April 1909. She then preserved it within the pages of her fabulous diary (now held by by Royal Holloway…
SUFFRAGE OBJECT: A PALMIST’S BUSINESS CARD: WHO WAS ‘LA YENDA’?
This card was given to Kate Frye at the Women's Freedom League 'Green, White and Gold Fair', held in Caxton Hall, London, in April 1909. She then preserved it within the pages of her fabulous diary (now held by by Royal Holloway College Archives) . At this time Kate was a member of the constitutional London Society for Women's Suffrage but was happy to offer her varied services to other societies - such as the WFL.
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Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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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 agoI 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.]
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...
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I wondered if the Law Society was affected by the General Strike, and found minutes of their Councll meeting on 7 May 1926, 100 years ago today! They refer to the 'National Emergency', students serving in a public capacity (volunteering), suspension of classes, and early closure of the Hall. 🗃️
Fantastic image of the 1845 Cambridge by-election - note in particular the presence of women.
Mary Burgess@cambliblife.bsky.social · 3mo agoDon't forget to go out and vote today - here's an election hustings from 1845 on Parker's Piece here in Cambridge.
Thank you! I wish it was: since the BL's cyber-attack all the ones that were online aren't any more. We're looking at publishing ourselves & can provide access though: please put your students in touch! We produced an intro podcast last year partly aimed at students: shows.acast.com/tales-from-t...
Tales from the Green Benches: An Oral History of Parliament
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‘Philly’ or ’Filly’ was enslaved in Guyana by the father of Peter McLagan, Scotland’s first Black MP. @martinspychal.bsky.social explores Philly’s life in Barbados and Guyana before, and after, the abolition of slavery, and considers whether Philly could have been Peter McLagan's mother.
‘Philly’ or ‘Filly’ (c.1790-unknown): mother and enslaved domestic worker of Barbados and Guyana - The History of Parliament
In this extended third article in his series on Peter McLagan, MP for Linlithgowshire 1865-1893, Dr Martin Spychal explores the life of ‘Philly’ or ‘Filly’.
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Chesterfield today: church with amazing medieval twisted spire, and on building nearby, a plaque for Emma Miller, trade unionist and suffragist in Australia #WomensHistory 🗃️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Mi...
The ruins of Godstow Abbey, Oxford, in the twilight. A 2019 study by historian Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis ascertained that for local benefactors, the prayers of the Godstow Benedictine nuns held equal value compared to that of the nearby male communities, and that in some cases, they were valued more.
This pretty bag belonged to a suffragette - see womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/25/s.... It's just one of the many suffrage objects that have passed through my hands - & I include a similar bag as Object 29 in my forthcoming book 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects' (see link in bio)
Charlotte Brontë was born #OnThisDay 210 years ago. In June 1850 she visited the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons to listen to MPs debating, as featured in our article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/t...
1926 Census: Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry. 30 nuns and over 100 other women. Occupation entered as: Laundress. The incarceration of women in the early Free State. #SpeirGorm
Brilliant talk this morning by @chloechallender.bsky.social on her excellent research on divorce by Act of Parliament, its voyeurism and theatricality, and experience of women inc as petitioners, respondents, witnesses.
Chloe Challender@chloechallender.bsky.social · 4mo agoExcited to be in Newcastle for the Broken Bonds conference at Northumbria organised by @drjenniferaston.bsky.social. I’ll be talking history of legislation with ref to parliamentary divorce alongside brilliant speakers and Lady Hale’s keynote.
Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on... womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/17/s...
Suffrage Stories: The WSPU Illuminated Address. Is This Sylvia Pankhurst’s Original Design?
Material owned by the Metropolitan Police Service Museum, licensed under the Metropolitan Police Service Non-Commercial Licence. (This image must not be reproduced without permission from the Metro…
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Such a treat to see this rare collection of pre-1910 British women's suffrage posters up close at @theul.bsky.social this week. This is the top half of a gigantic poster using French revolutionary archetypes to accuse the Liberal prime minister H.H. Asquith of hypocrisy. J'accuse, indeed.
