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

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

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...

"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

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...

📆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...

📆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...

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...

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...

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

📆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...

📢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.

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

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...

📢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...

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...

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

📆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...

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

📆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...

📅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...

We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library! Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk

We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library! Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk

“When capital pays husbands they get two workers, not one” Wages For Housework activists argued that unwaged workers in the home have the least power in a capitalist society. Demanding wages was the first step toward women refusing housework and rejecting social roles. More posters: bit.ly/3nie8t1

Lovely open evening of The Women’s Library @lselibrary.bsky.social tonight on eve of #InternationalWomensDay2024. So nice to see friends & colleagues. Now to chill for tomorrow. 🦾

We don't know much about this simple poster found in Mary McIntosh's archive, but we like it! #WomensHistoryMonth #EqualPay

New blog: "Women Against Pit Closures" — the Jean McCrindle archives and the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.

“A Say in the End of the World” is now open! Come check out our newest exhibition in our Gallery — free and open to all. ℹ️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...

Happy Women's History Month! We're proud to be home to the Women's Library — the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s activism. A brief history 🧵

Have a great week! A big thanks to Marina Arcady who shared this fab photo with us. 📸

George Lansbury, Labour MP, #BornOnThisDay in 1859 🎂 These wonderful photos are from his archive: lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1gl01

Learn about the symbols on these badges through this new blog written by one of our team for the People's History Museum: bit.ly/4bv1WJT

Now hiring 📣 We've got another role in our growing research support team @lselibrary.bsky.social for a fixed-term Open Research Assistant: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Closing 10th March, email me [email protected] if you've got any questions #LISJobs #LibraryJobs

Join Nadina Ali at our Late event on 7 March to create art inspired by the archives. Free and open to all! ℹ️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...

Now hiring! 📣 We're hiring for a new research data librarian @lselibrary.bsky.social, as we expand our support for open research and secure data: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Closing date is Sunday 10th March, email me at [email protected] if you have any questions #Metascience #OpenData

#RLUKICIL | Traces of South Asia: Working with Hidden Collections | 🗓️ Fri 19 Apr Archives & collections are organised to be discoverable. But what is hidden & who has to do the work of ‘finding’ them? Join us for a talk by Daniel Payne @lselibrary.bsky.social in April. 🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKICIL

'Smash the Backlash' was a demonstration held in May 1987 which saw 3,500 people march through Haringey in North London to protest against racism and bigotry. A thread for LGBT+ History Month 🧵

New An #Interview with @carolinederry.bsky.social on the #Patriarchal structures and societal anxieties that silenced #Lesbianism in the UK for centuries, and what lesbians in #AgathaChristie's novels reveal about post-war #Britain. #LGBTplusHM @lselibrary.bsky.social wp.me/p2MwSQ-h8o

On Women In Science Day, check out the suffrage banners honouring women scientists and medics designed by Mary Lowndes — founder of the Artists’ Suffrage League (1907) 🧵 1. Caroline Herschel was an astronomer who discovered five new comets.

NEW: Trans history collection highlight page! We've created this page to guide you around our growing collections — and just in time for LGBT+ History Month 🌈

Join us to celebrate 10 years of The Women’s Library at LSE at our very first Library Late! All welcome. ⏰ 6pm til 9pm on 7 March 2024 ℹ️ lse.ac.uk/library/even...

Happy LGBT+ History Month! We're a proud home to the Hall-Carpenter Archives — an incredibly rich LGBT+ history collection. We'll be celebrating all month! www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll...

Join us to celebrate 10 years of The Women’s Library at LSE at our very first Library Late! All welcome. ⏰ 6pm til 9pm on 7 March 2024 ℹ️ lse.ac.uk/library/even...

An archive find for you — a Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) apron. It's dated c.1910 and held in militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison's archive. 📁 archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...

Join us for our radical left drop-in archive session TOMORROW. Open 4pm to 6pm. All welcome.....particularly those of you who've never come along before!

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