New on our noticeboard - post by member, Lizzie Broadbent, on 'Women, libraries and protests': friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...

The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history - FORTHCOMING IN JULY womanandhersphere.com/2026/02/09/t...

📢 Delighted to announce launch of @ukri.org #WomensGrassrootsActivism #Activism100+Toolkit 🧰 to mark #IWD2026. Free event on Tues 10 March, 5.30pm (via Zoom). Book your spot via link 👇. @womensinstitute.bsky.social @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social 📢

Our talk is a week today. There'll be an opportunity to see some suffrage banners. You can have a look at them here on LSE digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

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 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Our next hybrid talk is on 19 Feb at 2.30pm at LSE Library. Henrietta McBurney's talk is 'Christiana Herringham: suffragist and suffragist patron'. For those in person, there will be a chance to see some of the banners designed by Mary Lowndes. To come, email [email protected]

A belated thank you to everyone who joined us at our one-day event to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. We are planning other talks through the year which will be posted on our website. friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

📣 Call for Papers! Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library. Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners. Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Deadline: 29 March 2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

We're hosting a very special roundtable in Cambridge and online on Friday 6th Feb featuring Alissa Klots, Christina von Hodenberg, Catriona Kelly & myself in conversation about work, gender & ageing in post-war Europe. To attend in person or via Zoom register here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49412/

For anyone interested, Pauline Gower’s book about her life as a pilot (published 1937) is available (see link). She grew up in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and was an aviation pioneer.

Free online talk @womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @ukahn.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social #HistNursing #womenshistory #feminism

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Wonderful event to celebrate the centenary of the womens library @lselibrary.bsky.social organised by @fotwl.bsky.social @womanssphere.bsky.social amazing images like this from her forthcoming book @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

So lovely to be here at @lselibrary.bsky.social for @fotwl.bsky.social celebration of 100 years of #WomensLibrary. Anne Summers is giving a great history of the library including shout out to David Doughan who has helped so many historians of women in their work over the years, including me ❤️.

Interesting re-appraisal of concept & use of militancy by female activists post suffrage in Britain with focus on Six Point Group by @kellybosomworth.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary. Six Point Group archive is held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary

The always fab @carmenmangion.bsky.social now speaking on religious women & feminist activism in inter-war years via archive sources held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary. Range of campaigns & importance of cross organisational collaboration emphasised. @fotwl.bsky.social

@womanssphere.bsky.social is now speaking about her forthcoming book on the British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects at @fotwl.bsky.social conference today. 49 of the 100 objects come from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary.

Wonderful to see #badges feature in @womanssphere.bsky.social forthcoming book British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects, including for Ireland. #WomensLibrary 💯 @fotwl.bsky.social

Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.

& if interested in the #SixPointGroup a cheeky plug for my article in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social which uses amazing archive of its Chair Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, who insisted the Group’s archive & her own personal archive, was donated to the #WomensLibrary. Free access to all 😊.

Beginning a year of celebrating The Women's Library first 100 years! @fotwl.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @catholicrs.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social

Very insightful paper by @carolinederry.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event to celebrate 💯 of @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary on legal campaigns & debates around the age of consent & equal moral standard. Intersections with class, gender, age & sexuality highlighted are fascinating.

Lovely to see so many friends with @fotwl.bsky.social for The Womens library centenary conference #WomensHistory Anne Summers chairing

In a wide ranging paper @carmenmangion.bsky.social notes emergence of new religious women’s groups in 1970s in response to WLM incl. campaign for women’s ordination in C of E. Great to hear that @graceheaton.bsky.social will be giving paper to @fotwl.bsky.social on this soon. #WomensLibrary.

It was a joy to present at this fantastic conference.

Really looking forward to attending this event on Wednesday & great line up of speakers. Just the tonic for current on-going uncertainty & bad news with regards to UKHE. #womenshistory

Our hybrid conference is next week. There's still time to sign up (email [email protected]). The programme is here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

I'm excited to have a chapter about the Wolfenden Report in this open access book. #LegalHistory

I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

I'm looking forward to this! The Women's Library collections are amazing, so it will be a fascinating day.

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.

Thanks Carmen. Look forward to seeing you!

Can't believe I published 3 books this year. - yes, I'm exhausted! - no, I'll never do that again. - above all, I'm hugely grateful to my co- authors, collaborators, contributors, editors, reviewers... No one creates a book alone!

Agree. And lovely to see Women in Media featured and The Women's Library.

Lovely to see Anne Summers, Sally Alexander and Anna Davin in these photos. Looking forward to this series.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

It's this Wednesday at 2.30pm in LSE Library. Do come along!

Do come! Based on research done last year on Baldwin papers @theul.bsky.social supplemented by Women’s Library @lselibrary.bsky.social collections

Join us on Wednesday 10 December at 2.30 pm at LSE Library for a talk by Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social, historian and former Senior Parliamentary Archivist, on the subject of The 'Flapper': Lucy and Betty Baldwin in 1920s press cartoons. If you'd like to join on zoom, DM us please.

You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.

I don't understand what is meant by 'unsealed' in this story. Since the 1980s Levy's papers were owned by Camellia plc & were open to researchers. Christine Pullen's biography of Levy, The Woman Who Dared (2010) was based on them. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Mrs Spencer Graves's scrapbook is such a gem! Thank you Elizabeth for highlighting the importance of biography.

Article updated with wonderful new info from the archives of both Pierre Frey (Paris) and The Women's Library@LSE. wp.me/p2AEiO-245

'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2

We're delighted to announce our winner of the LSE 3rd year dissertation prize was Philippa Fletcher of @lsehy.bsky.social who made use of TWL's collections. Her subject was 'The international feminist issues of "Outwrite Newspaper" , 1982-1988'. Well done!

IT'S TODAY! Come along if you're free.

#histnursing #WW1

We will also be announcing the winner of our LSE undergraduate dissertation 🥇