'The Guardian' view on the Women's Library at 100: a cause of celebration but not complacency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Want to learn more about what our project is investigating! Keep scrolling! Voices of Motherhood is currently made up of five different research strands, the first of which explores the history of maternal and infant welfare in the UK after 1918. 🧵(1/7)

💥 Women Strike Back! – A new exhibition by Dr @saimanasar.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) is on display at St Paul's Learning Centre until end of June Celebrating the stories of Black & South Asian women who campaigned for & brought about change in postwar Britain More 👉 bit.ly/412N1Tj

Thanks to BBC Gloucester and Epigram for covering the ‘Women Strike Back!’ exhibition, which has been extended at St Paul’s Learning Centre. You can view it until the end of June 2026

Thanks to BBC Gloucester and Epigram for covering the ‘Women Strike Back!’ exhibition, which has been extended at St Paul’s Learning Centre. You can view it until the end of June 2026

Exhibition to tell story of Punjabi princess and pioneering suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh

We're hiring! We’re looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE, 12 month FTC) to join us and work with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social. Role can be held flexibly (though not remote); centres around outreach + engagement, archival + oral history work in Worcestershire jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

The wonderful Glory Oluwaseun is hosting a Black Feminist Reading Group at the Centre for Black Humanities, Bristol. Come along for conversation, community, Collins and Lauren Hill! More details on how to join and rsvp here:

Women Strike Back! New exhibition in Bristol explores histories of Black and South Asian feminist activists in Britain www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon… www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

The brilliant Vanessa Kisuule and (some of) the WCIF team at yesterday’s launch.

Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.

The best way to spend a grey Monday lunchtime! Art, history, feminism, poetry, jerk chicken, and more. Thanks to @saimanasar.bsky.social, the 'Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism' exhibition team, and poet Vanessa Kisuule for this launch event at St Paul's Learning Centre.

Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Women Strike Back! exhibition launch. And to the team that made this possible: Abi Freeman, Sarah Howard, Sreenanti Banerjee & Siza Dube. It will be up for a few weeks at St Paul’s Learning Centre and Bristol Central Library. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Our exhibition is today! We look forward to seeing you at noon!

Today is the International Feminist Day of Struggle. In 1910, socialist feminists around Clara Zetkin called for 8 March to become a global day of action for women’s rights. Today feminists take to the streets worldwide — the fight for real equality continues. 🌹✊

This #InternationalWomensDay, we are proud to share a spotlight on Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social, the first woman to be appointed Director of the Leverhulme Trust. In this @expeditions.bsky.social video, she shares why we need to recognise research as a collective endeavour.

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢. 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom) We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

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

Please join us for the launch of our 'Women Strike Back!' exhibition on Monday 9th March. The wonderful Vanessa Kasuule will be joining us for a poetry reading. You can book your tickets via: ticketpass.org/event/ELVTJM...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

The SOMS research project is delighted to share another clip from 'The Secret of Her Success' documentary film. The full trailer can be viewed on BlackBark films website: www.blackbarkfilms.com #humsbristol #artsmatter #bristolresearch #womeninselfemployment #blackbarkfilms

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 John La Rose Award is open to students in Haringey from marginalised communities. Named after our co-founder the activist and publisher who set up a Saturday school for black children in the 1970s. Apply by 5 February share.google/xzGhDApeIm81...

Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion. Email [email protected] if you'd like to come.

Get ready-- the 4th book on our Black Feminism on the Edge series, @samanthapinto.bsky.social's INSIDE THE BODY OF BLACK FEMINISM (on @dukepress.bsky.social), drops in July. More info here: www.dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b...

Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.

🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain! We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027. 📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

'Women work longer and earn just a third – 32% – of what men get per hour, when paid and unpaid labour, such as domestic work, are taken into account. Even when unpaid domestic labour is not included, women only earn 61% of what men make, according to the report.' 1/2

Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...

History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians

“Hands off my future!” — Ayesha Khawla Usmani remembers studying engineering in the 1970s, Lambeth Women's Carpentry Workshop the Grunwick strike and more! www.howl-uk.org/hands-off-my-future ✊🏽 #southlondonblackwomensgroup #LWW #FeministHistories #women #1970s #GrunwickStrike #HOWL #HackneyHowlers

As the Government prepares to publish its child poverty strategy a joint @acmedsci.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social roundtable report on the factors affecting educational performance shows tackling poverty should be a priority acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/de...

Huge thanks to Stella Dadzie for her incredible lecture tonight. A dream come true to be in conversation with her

Stella Dadzie will be giving a guest lecture on Thursday 27th November! She will also be signing copies of her new book! Please join us - all welcome!

I missed this last week. The new English index of income deprivation includes UC working households who are on low-incomes AFTER HOUSING COSTS. This is a big deal technically & means we now have a hyper local measure of LIVING STANDARDS not just incomes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows

I love this quote. If you haven’t yet, go and see the #ArtInNursing exhibition at the @rcnlibraries.bsky.social It’s sooooo good 😊

From June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire. A review essay by @SohelS28: buff.ly/RIb4CWz

Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Huge thanks to Eugenia for a brilliant paper yesterday!

📢 call for papers update 📢 This conference has a very flexible approach to periodisation and historical understandings of ‘the modern’. We welcome all papers that engage with motherhood in the 19th, 20th and 21st century so make sure to send us your abstracts before 1 November!

Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation, we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social

Free Creative Writing Workshop with the talented author, poet, teacher Kat François. Sat, 1 November at Marcus Garvey Library, Tottenham N15 4JA Celebrate Black History Month and stories of local Black activism. With Haringey Culture and Communities Team. Email: [email protected]

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, read about Caribbean women’s powerful role in the Ethiopian solidarity campaign of the 1930s. Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity. womenshistorynetwork.org/caribbean-wo... #BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Stella Dadzie will be giving a guest lecture on Thursday 27th November! She will also be signing copies of her new book! Please join us - all welcome!